To be totally honest, you are assuming much and are way off target. By the time of this incident I had been attending these seminars for four years. Every person in that room I knew quite well, they were my colleagues at the university.

The reason that the silence at that one session was so stunning to me was that in all those years, that was the only time any statement by anybody about anything was met with absolute silence.

a) No, the philosopher, Charles W. Mills, is world-renowned as an expert perspective on the philosophy of race. We were reading his paper because it is an important paper on the topic. No one there thought he "lacked perspective."

b) Contrary to the lies told by right-wingers about educators, no one is afraid to challenge bad ideas for running the risk of being called "offensive." No one is shy in our profession about calling out someone for being wrong.

c) You don't understand how philosophy works. Again, no one denies Mills's thorough expertise in researching the topic and no one thinks only Black people are allowed to critique Black people. Or, for that matter, only women are allowed to critique women philosophers, and so on. Again, the right-wing lies about what educators do are just that, lies.

You say you want people to challenge you, well here you are. You lack perspective on the true story I related, pretending that you who wasn't there knows more about what happened than I who was there. You rushed to defend people's disrespect of a Black person, suggesting he must have deserved it. You went off half-cocked and talked nonsense, or maybe you prefer the term "bullshit." As for your suggestions that we turn a blind eye to systemic racism and pretend we are are being "over-accomodating" to Black people and "too PC," THOSE are bullshit ideas.

P.S. - You should have read the rest of the article.