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Renee Searfoss
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Lecturer, history dept Coastal Carolina University, transplant Midwesterner, left wing liberal, shy nerd with limited ability to sum up my personality in a few pithy sentences
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@grundrza.bsky.social also reflects on the fact that exploiting existing inequalities between tenure track and adjunct faculty makes it easier to implement censorship. Without workplace protections, adjuncts can't refuse to teach censored books.
For obvious reasons, people were up in arms. The tenure-track professor who taught Intro to Sociology felt he could refuse to teach the class, and he did. The rest of the people teaching intro were adjuncts, which meant that they did not have the right of refusal. They are at-will employees, unlike the rest of us who are unionized.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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@grundrza.bsky.social goes into detail about censors avoiding putting directives in writing, making accountability harder to accomplish.
Each university, as in most states, has a Board of Trustees. The Board of Governors sometimes gives directives to the Board of Trustees, who then give directives to campuses. In this case, what's happening is that staffers for the Board of Governors, not the board members themselves, but staffers for the Board of Governors, will call provosts. I emphasize call. Written directives never come; they are always oral directives. They're issued to provosts, and then provosts call, not put in writing, department chairs, and then department chairs call the individual instructors teaching a given class.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM