And threatens to unconstitutionally compel their speech
When working at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant rendered Homer Simpson sterile, his boss invented an award and an Emmy-like ceremony to explain why he was receiving a $2,000 don’t-sue-us check.
Its wonderfully evasive name? “The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.”
I’m guessing George Mason University President Gregory Washington has seen that episode and got inspiration from it, because he just announced a similar award for nonwhite faculty.
The taxpayer-funded institution actually promised to violate the constitutional rights of white faculty, with the justification that only nonwhite faculty are performing work for which they are not paid.
Washington’s announcement last week was couched in the language of antiracism, the latest doublethink academic fad to promote racism and stereotypes.
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