@Meaningness @St_Rev If history tells us anything, it's that witch hunts are easy to stop if you cease handing out the dead witch's property
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@TristanSevers@St_Rev Salem & McCarthy ended when the witch hunters got overconfident and accused EVERYONE, including the most powerful.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers@St_Rev Political gay white cis men are unlikely to put up with being demonized, I would guess. Not a group to mess with.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev How many of them are (still) on-campus though? Uni politics became horrid specifically because powerful LEAVE uni.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers@St_Rev Presumably still there as students? Or what group of employees are you thinking of? Profs? Admin staff?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Basically, I'm assuming two premises. First is that student activists get nowhere without complicit faculty/donors.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev 2nd, (white) gay men have power as political block because they didn't wait for "queer theory" to win, they cut checks.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev This suggests, however, that they'll have a hard time reasserting power at uni for the same reasons conservatives did.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Path of least resistance is to just move on in life, who cares what dumb 19yos think? (Until they become dumb 45yos...)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Related thought: I’ve been puzzling about why there’s so little pushback against the sjw university nonsense. Hypothesis: >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@TristanSevers Everyone with a clue had already written universities off—at least the humanities departments—because pomo had already >
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@TristanSevers > completely destroyed them 15 years ago, and what’s left isn’t worth exerting energy to save.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@TristanSevers If this is right, it’s an epochal disaster. Universities did have a central civilization-preserving-and-enhancing function, >1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes - 21 more replies
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