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thucythucy

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9. It is significant to me that the speaker he wanted to interrupt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 09:59 PM

Jan 2021

was there to discuss issues of inclusion.

Conservatives have a real problem with people with disabilities (as well as people of color, women, LGBTQs etc.).

Don't know the man, but I would bet he thinks making any effort to include people with disabilities in academia is somehow beneath the attention of serious scholars.

Just a guess, and I could very well be wrong, but I've seen this "thinking" before.

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