Pyrene
Assistant Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the faculty at the United States Military Academy published in the New York Times1. His letter to the editor as a profile in academic courage indicates the need for a serious investigation at West Point. Additionally, his other publications absolutely shout out for a Blue Ribbon panel to take a deep dive into what in the living, screaming Hell is happening at West Point and the other Service Academies.
The inquiry shouldn’t be about why Parsons left, but who hired him, who retained him, who approved what he taught, who else is teaching like him, and who is accountable to make sure a “Parsons” is never hired again? And how can such drivel be kept from West Point and never be indoctrinated again?
A Commission should consider the following:
Immediately and in the future, no faculty member at West Point should associate ending DEI and CRT indoctrination with “West Point abandoned its core principles2.”
All the faculty should understand that West Point isn’t “Once a school that strove to give cadets the broad-based, critical-minded, non-partisan education they need for careers as Army Officers3”, but a military academy which trains and educates Army Officers to meet the needs of the Army to fight and win wars.
All faculty should understand the difference between a liberal arts college and a military academy.
One hopes West Point might recover from Parsons being “ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form4.” It can happen if future faculty doesn’t have an issue with prohibitions on “gender ideology”5 and doesn’t push the Cultural Marxist propaganda that “America’s founding documents are racists or sexist6.”
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