The Chronicle of Higher Education carries a story about the University of Wyoming’s proposed new slogan: “The world needs more cowboys.” Apparently a few pearl-clutchers on the UW faculty said it was insufficiently “inclusive.”
COTTonLINE’s reaction: Oh, bull crap! I had hoped the rot affecting most of academia hadn’t spread as far as Laramie ... guess I was too optimistic.
I promise you Wyoming women feel included in the umbrella term “cowboy.” Anybody who knows western history knows the real vaqueros on cattle drives weren’t all white.
Wyoming should leave this sort of virtue-signalling vigilantism on the two coasts where, if it doesn’t belong, it at least has lots of unpleasant company.
