Dear Colleagues,
Today, Antioch Review came out in defense of having published an article by
Daniel Harris that is excessively transphobic.
*Please help ask Antioch College what they will do now to support the trans
students who will feel the brunt of this kind of support of hate speech* -
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Dr. Thomas Manley: Antioch College-Higher Ed Goes Low w Hate Speech: How
Will You Support Trans Students Now?
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Dear Antioch President & Community Governance Council members, We wonder if
you're aware of the essay, “ The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate ”
by Daniel Harris as published by Antioch Review in the Winter 2016 issue.
What you may not be aware of is the close similarities it bears to much...
*Dear Antioch President & Community Governance Council members,*
We wonder if you're aware of the essay, “The Sacred Androgen: The
Transgender Debate
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by Daniel Harris as published by Antioch Review in the Winter 2016 issue.
What you may not be aware of is the close similarities it bears to much of
the work of the International Eugenics movement and its parallel
underpinnings to the propaganda of the Nazi Regime's "Master Race." Higher
education has sought to identify, discredit and eliminate fascist
influences that perpetuate such ideals that would declare one human life
superior to another and that would debase people to the point of
encouraging harm against them.
Sadly, Harris' essay was not an attempt to do the latter. It serves to
further stigmatize trans people and encourage a view that perpetuates
harmful ideas, via stereotype and blatant disdain. This is a population who
remain underserved, underrepresented and are targeted daily with
discrimination and hate crimes--a point Harris downplays in order to
suggest that the suicide rate among trans people is due to having
created "an internal embargo as psychologically devastating" when
they transition; thus he reinforces his premise that trans people are
untreated mentally ill people, weak in the face of the culture's influence
and thus deserving of disdain. No one needs to connect the dots for you
when it comes to speech and violence.
Today, the Antioch Review editors have chosen to hide behind the all-too
common refrain of "free speech." Hate speech is not protected speech. Even
if you don't think such statements as "switching one’s gender is a
mass delusion" or suggesting that trans women only want to emulate
"gold‑digging temptresses," Harris' characterization of the transition
process for trans people is utterly abhorrent. Except his words are not
relegated to the realm of sensationlist supermarket rags that lie about
people for sales. His article has been sent into the world as having been
vetted and approved as material worthy of higher education and critical
thinking by the Antioch Review. The simplistic categorizations of various
fields of study that Harris conflates in order to render his points is
mind-numbingly rudimentary at best and, in most instances, completely
wrong, doing injustice to a number of disciplines with his efforts. Please
do read closely the hate with which Harris describes people and a process
with which he is clearly unfamiliar.
Not long ago in the 1950s, Harris would likely have written a similar
article on homosexuality that would describe the LGBTQ population as
mentally ill, delusional and worse. This is the kind of thinking Harris'
essay is on par with--thinking that is disproven and shunned today. Today,
Gender Studies is a reputable, advanced field of study throughout
academia. Harris' outmoded, backwards hate speech has not only been
supported by Antioch Review; Antioch Review consciously chose to give
Harris' hate a platform to sing out from, sharing it widely and using
funding from Antioch College to do so--and its editors have thus defended
Harris' essay now as necessary to the world of higher education and
critical thinking.
So we ask you now: What will you, as Antioch College's leaders, do to
support the community that Harris has vilified? What will Antioch Review
do to give voice and a platform to trans students on campus? How will
Antioch College dissuade their student population from viewing trans
students as "delusional" as condoned by Antioch Review and, as Harris
suggests, misguided by their own internalized homophobia or abused by
parents pushing their confused children to become trans for attention?
Please read the piece closely and help us understand why such ideas warrant
the support and funding of Antioch College--urgently.
All eyes are on those who serve and guide a large student population in the
field of higher education. We're waiting.
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Amy King
Associate Professor
Department of English
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't
have any." --Alice Walker
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