Preempting the Firing (Round 2)

Let's workshop this poem that lays out a tactic of sympathy-garnering manipulation that educators in hostile DEI spaces might use to deflect the ire of woke hordes and their administrative enablers

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Preempting the Firing 

You will still need to massage 
late enrollers, but to placate
hyenas (hissing “this syllabus

is unsafe” as they encircle 
with DEI blessing, drooling 
to maul white meat) lie: “confide”

in the first class—teary, voice
crackling—that your toddler 
gets bullied for being trans.

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