2. I'm reluctant to call this place "University of Austin" by the way because there already is a University of Texas at Austin (one of the world's great universities, actually!) and this new enterprise, among its other frauds, is clearly intent on brand confusion.
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3. So instead of calling this place "University of Austin" it would be better to give it a more accurate name: Potemkin University: it's not so much a real school as a facade of a school designed to fool the credulous and the indoctrinated.
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4. There are two broad critiques of Potemkin University: ideologically it's absurd to create school committed to free speech with people who (as some PU advisors have) called for constitution to be changed for anti-Muslim laws & Arthur to be taken off airwaves for being pro-gay.pic.twitter.com/P3qYzp2gs5
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5. Beyond ideology there's simple fact that all evidence from public documents is that Potemkin University (PU) is run by incompetent cretins -- i.e. they are applying for accreditation at a body that can't give them accreditation (see this great thread) https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1457703519943790596 …
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6. University of Austin -- sorry, I mean Potemkin University -- is both intellectually absurd and also a pretend school. To figure out what's going on I talked to the great
@jakebackpack, who lays out clearly the financial farce.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-bari-weiss-and-the-potemkin?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= …Show this thread
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Sohrab Amari is on the board. Enough said.
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What does it even mean to be a 'non-fiduciary' board member? He can blow thru the money without feeling bad?pic.twitter.com/8iuZNMRBGo
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So the question is whether Weiss et al. went further than those distancing understood the relationship or whether those distancing had second thoughts
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i’ve been saying, this is about as serious as that idea to start a progressive pillow company
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At least most Progressives accept the value of pillows.
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