Nothing in my entire scholarly career has prepared me for the double standards of these killing fields. On the contrary, I was lulled into a delusional belief that surely we had long gone past this level of crude genocidal racism, that we had subtler problems before us.

Priyamvada Gopal © And many of my international students have questioned this lulling and what it means for the Discourse we surround ourselves with on de/anti colonial practices in HE. They are asking serious questions about hypocrisy, double standards, and silence in the academy.