Imagine if universities tried to purge conservatives from our faculty. There’d be well-deserved protests from within the university as well as from without. We have strictly enforced policies for our hiring committees to prevent that from happening: our HR instructs us in the rules before every interview. You don’t get to ask candidates about politics, religion, or family matters…you interview exclusively on their qualifications to teach and do research.
This is not the policy when your administration is authoritarian and far right, and Texan.
Gov. Greg Abbott admitted in an X post on Sunday that Texas is purging professors with “leftist ideologies” — and people are not happy.
Abbott’s directive fits into a pattern of faculty changes and government interference on campuses across the state, including the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and Texas State University.
“Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation,” Abbott wrote in his post. “We must end indoctrination and return to education fundamentals at all levels of education.”
They must end indoctrination by purging the universities of people who oppose your ideological indoctrination. That’s blatant. No ideology but our ideology.
Univ. of Texas professor was dismissed from an administrative post overseeing university academic affairs because of ideological differences.
Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation.
We…
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 19, 2025
He’s a fucking fascist.
These days, stating that truth is truth will get you branded a leftist ideologue.
I’ve got Texas’ next university administrator right here:
Which means he is now available for a new job, possibly in Texas!
Probably you are astonished that there are still Republican senators who would consider Nazi proclivities to be a detriment to working in today’s federal government. I know I am.
This has a name.
This is what Stalin did in Russia.
Abbott is purging anyone he doesn’t like from the Texas universities.
He is obviously a real fan of Stalin and Stalinism.
At least those Texas professors won’t be sent to the slave labor camps in the Texas Gulag prison system. Yet, anyway.
They won’t be happy until the only Americans left are (mostly white, non-Jews) who will kneel before THIER GOD. We must repent now and declare the one true God! /s
Forcing religion and right-wing philosophy into schools and upper-level education, moving to control Congress through gerrymandering, punishing Blue States, and claiming anyone who doesn’t agree with them as un-American, or un-patriotic is only the beginning.
Abbott’s just jealous ‘cuz DeSantis started his university putsch in Florida first.
Remember, the Big Butthole Bill got passed with one vote…because Abbot/Texas Republicans had refused to hold an extra election after an old Democrat had died.
The grifters will cheat any way they can.
-Also, Democrats cannot afford to have representatives that are so old that they die on the job. We see now how Republicans use it to reduce the numbers of Democrats by delaying extra elections as long as they can.
Ravwn @ 3 : Lysenkoism.
Trofim Lysenko’s crackpot theories disrupted Soviet agriculture for more than a generation and also affected other sciences than biology.
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From now on, objective reality is a far-leftist ideology in Republican stares.
We should hold Republicans responsible for their ‘MAGA Lysenkoism’.