“Astonishing, of course, that those very terms - 'reeducation' and 'rehabilitation' - do not scare the hell out of academics who use them and hear them. That they do not call to mind the not-so-distant history of authoritarian regimes in Europe or lead on to the thought that 'diversity,' for many of us in the academy, has now come to mean a plurality of sameness. More important: the words, apparently, do not suggest how vulnerable we are - all of us - to error, slippage, and hurt, and how the protocols, tribunals, and shamings currently favored by many in the academy have distracted us from our primary obligation, which is to foster an atmosphere of candor, good will, kindness, and basic decency without which we can be of no use to one another or to our students.” KindnessHonestyCivilityAuthoritarianismConformismSocial Justice WarriorsVirtue Signaling Book:The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies