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CHICAGO – Professors should take seriously white, conservative male students’ concerns about being silenced in college classrooms partly because their feelings of exclusion could lead to the “radical militarization of white men,” a scholar suggested at a recent academic conference.
It’s similar feelings of persecution that have led to mass shootings, Florida Atlantic University professor RJ Boutelle said, implying the issue shouldn’t be ignored by his peers.
The English professor’s comments came amid advice that scholars should resist any impulses to disregard conservative students and their concerns. Noting that many conservatives on college campuses feel they can’t discuss their views without being shut down by a liberal majority, Boutelle, who is white, said hearing out the students’ complaints is an important task for professors.
He said “the kind of persecution white students, particularly men, feel in these moments is precisely the kind of persecution syndrome” that can direct them to online forums involving men’s rights activists and white nationalists and “can even lead to the radical militarization of white men that we’ve seen time and time again, all too recently materialize in mass shootings.”
Conceding those are “extreme possibilities,” Boutelle claimed there is a “pipeline” of those students feeling silenced on campus and right-wing media outlets affirming those concerns.
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