Off with my head!
an old white bloke. Not that I am complaining; we have probably had too many good years stuffing up the planet’s ecosystem and marginalising Aotearoa’s first arrivals to begrudge the odd bit of disdain and a few epithets. I saw that the University of Auckland’s Professor Elizabeth Rata, writing in the a while back, quoted an unidentified tweeter calling for “white male boomer profs” to be the first to go in university staffing cuts. Though I have only briefly been identified as a professor, I am at once hurt, appalled and excited by this call to arms. Were I still to be on the professorial payroll, I would certainly be in the firing line and, no doubt, lament the loss of academic
