boat-rocking is suicidal

I have intentionally adjusted my teaching materials as the political winds have shifted. ... Most of my colleagues who still have jobs have done the same.
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The academic job market is brutal. Teachers who are not tenured or tenure-track faculty members have no right to due process before being dismissed, and there's a mile-long line of applicants eager to take their place. And as writer and academic Freddie DeBoer writes, they don't even have to be formally fired — they can just not get rehired. In this type of environment, boat-rocking isn't just dangerous, it's suicidal, and so teachers limit their lessons to things they know won't upset anybody. - I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me by Edward Schlosser on June 3, 2015

это в 2015-м, а вот он пишет про Evergreen

ср. Путин попросил оппозицию "не раскачивать лодку"

see also ‘F*** free speech’: Evergreen State students double down, want to ‘weed out’ those who oppose them

и Когда королю скажут, что он голый?