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Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that Jodi Shaw, the Smith College alumna who resigned her position at the prestigious women’s college because of racism, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .
Shaw was required to take anti-racist training which she believes actually inculcate racist attitudes.
Shaw is not the only graduate of a prestigious college to find that the institution has become illiberal. What makes her different is that she is willing to take the risk of speaking out.
“Students are encouraged to view interpersonal interactions through the lens of immutable characteristics such as race. They apply status and power to each other and then, when there’s a conflict about crumbs left in the toaster, race and power get dragged into it. When really, in my mind, I don’t think it has anything to do with that. I think it just has to do with, ‘Who left crumbs and didn’t pick up after themselves? This makes it impossible to actually address the issue in a meaningful way, or communicate effectively, because now you’re talking about these big issues like power and race that may or may not even be present.”
A lifelong liberal who was thrilled to accept a job at her alma mater, Shaw believes that what is going on at campuses transcends politics.
“I’m willing to put aside policy, because in my mind policy debates, over things like universal health care, or abortion, are luxuries of a functioning democracy,” Shaw tells IWF. “Even if our democracy isn’t perfect, I think what we are facing now is authoritarianism, and when we are facing authoritarianism, we really have to link arms and just drop everything else. This is the most pressing issue, more than anything else.”
Please read this Champion Women profile—we think that you will enjoy meeting Jodi and that she has very important things to say.
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Sincerely,
Charlotte Hays
Cultural Director
Independent Women's Forum
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