Rob Jenkins, a tenured associate professor of English at Georgia State University, recently wrote at Campus Reform about his interaction with a “gender studies” professor who took umbrage at his January op-ed criticizing Georgia’s university system for its “public syllabi head-fake.”

His point was that many professors hide their course’s political and social agendas behind sketchy course syllabi released publicly that don’t accurately represent what is being taught. In response, the state’s Board of Regents declared that instead of merely filling in a template with selected information, now faculty at public universities must publish the entire syllabi that they distribute to students.

Prof. Jenkins was pleased, but received an email from a colleague who described herself as a “gender studies professor.” She grilled him on why he put “transgender” in scare quotes, and what he thought were appropriate topics “in classes that discuss gender, sexuality, identity, and racial politics.” Jenkins answered that he puts “transgender’ in quotation marks because he believes people can’t change their sex and that the whole fad is manufactured. He also said that he doesn’t believe any topic is appropriate for classes that discuss gender, sexuality, identity, and racial politics because he thinks “gender studies” are a phony discipline that should not be taught at all.

The female professor didn’t like that, She accused Jenkins of promoting “right-wing” ideology and implied that he would be biased against LGBTQ students in his classroom. Jenkins wrote that her assumption is demonstrably false; I would add that it tells me that the “gender studies” prof is biased against students in her classroom who don’t toe the progressive line.People who can’t tolerate dissenting opinions and whom bias has made stupid usually assume everyone else is the same way.

Then, Jenkins writes, he discovered his woke critic wasn’t a “gender studies professor,” but a “history professor teaching mostly sophomore-level survey courses.” She just turned her history courses into propaganda on “gender, sexuality, identity, and race politics.”

“That’s exactly the sort of thing the state’s public syllabi policy is intended to expose: professors using their classroom to advance a political agenda that has, at best, a tenuous connection to the subject matter,” Jenkins writes. But how many state colleges around the country allow and facilitate woke ideological propaganda? How many glassy-eyed, brainwashed, doctrinaire progressives lurk on faculties, seeing the indoctrination of our rising generations as their sacred duty?

My guess: far too many. A daunting number. For society, the culture and our nation, a crushing number.