It’s a remarkable story that was likely to garner a decent amount of attention anyway if it were an old, white, neurotypical, short haired, tweed elbow patch jacket wearing professor of long tenure.
But he’s black, autistic, young (for an academic), makeup wearing, long haired, and gained his position after supposed “woke” BLM pressure. This story is a bigot’s wet dream because it reinforces all of their prejudices and proves they were “right” all along.
A scandal of this scale would likely get a few days of national press, die down, and then get another brief mention a few weeks later if a conclusion or something significant happens. But capitalist press feeds on the engagement and enragement of bigots to get clicks, so they’ll ride this story as long as they can and keep pumping out more about it until the clicks die down.
It’s a remarkable story that was likely to garner a decent amount of attention anyway if it were an old, white, neurotypical, short haired, tweed elbow patch jacket wearing professor of long tenure.
But he’s black, autistic, young (for an academic), makeup wearing, long haired, and gained his position after supposed “woke” BLM pressure. This story is a bigot’s wet dream because it reinforces all of their prejudices and proves they were “right” all along.
A scandal of this scale would likely get a few days of national press, die down, and then get another brief mention a few weeks later if a conclusion or something significant happens. But capitalist press feeds on the engagement and enragement of bigots to get clicks, so they’ll ride this story as long as they can and keep pumping out more about it until the clicks die down.