Blog Juice for Educational Technology

A sense of injustice is a powerful motivator. Notice the honor rightly paid to Rosa Parks, one of the few ‘little people’ to be accorded the honor of a ceremonial funeral at the nation’s capitol. A sense of injustice turns you into a crusader, a person devoted to righting wrongs and correcting injuries. It is this sense that brings me to you today. Terrible crimes have been committed. Some of these crimes include mischaracterization, mistrust, and disrespect. In other words, we face violations of all the norms of liberal democratic discourse. These crimes are so grave that we are forced to pause at the triumphalism of liberal hegemony and acknowledge the necessity to re-think our commitment to its norms and values. Let’s begin with the first crime: