In my experience, academia has traded meritocracy for mean girls. You no longer have to prove you've earned your success. In fact, your success means nothing unless you're willing to bend the knee to the Regina George of your department.
@DrBlackDeer Maybe we even interrogate the academic myths fronting as meritocracy.
@DrBlackDeer It’s always been that way. It was never about meritocracy. That’s the myth used to lure people in.
@DrBlackDeer It seems intrinsic to an institution where the job is to nitpick apart others’ work on the basis that you’re more learned than they are
@DrBlackDeer I thought this was just my experience
@DrBlackDeer Absolutely my experience with a splash of lateral violence! So much I could say <sigh>
@DrBlackDeer Respectfully, when did anyone other than scholars of color have to prove anything? 🤔