I keep reading about incidents like this and every single time I'm left wondering "how did this go on for so long?" there are no outside observers in those classrooms? the students are all so troubled that the ones who see it for what it is are in the minority?
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People coming into that program are going to be exquisitely selected for cultishness. SocJus and modern anthropology are both, already, dangerous cults. Add to that the kind of New Age wooism that sends you to CIIS. Sheep for the slaughter.
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The professor made the difference here -- instead of abusing a few students at a time, like a respectable normal academic, she got greedy and needed dozens under her thumb.
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yeah, but seriously, there are no outside observers in those classrooms. it's really weird.
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this seems more “lone psychopath” than “cult” but maybe hard to distinguish if the former takes over an institution
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More "swarm of roaches" instead of "pile of fermenting garbage". Well, the latter draws the former, reliably.
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"Whatever notions we had about what it meant to be a scholar-activist were about to be twisted beyond all measure."
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It's like buying chocolate chip ice cream and complaining about all the little brown bits.
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JFC. I hope those "instructors" are burned at the stake somewhere, but they're probably out foisting their BS on someone else.
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Oh yeah, she landed at Berkeley. Although her project there seems to have vanished.
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lol i just thought “oh THIS is where scientology went” before i realised they also have to pay like tens of thousands of dollars to get to these classes
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Well, but Scientologists also have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for their classes.
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yeah that was teh joke. i thought of it BEFORE i realised that was also true
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So,that Angana Chatterji woman features in an extremely interesting piece here …https://truthaboutmitindiaworkshop.wordpress.com Crtl-F for 'Angana'
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Jesus. Sending money to the families of 9/11 firefighters is anti-Muslim, but 9/11 was an inside job? How even
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