this is like hiring a flat earther to teach in a geography department. the fact that this grifter is being allowed to teach undergraduates with our stamp of approval is a goddamn disgrace
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it's depressing that Molly McKew has been allowed to launder her fraudulent expertise through my own academic institution
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considering that her response to criticism from Russian-born people (like Masha Gessen, who was literally driven out by Putin's homophobic policies!) is to imply that Russians are all Putin stooges, it doesn't make me feel particularly great to be a
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if I had tenure I would probably bring this up with somebody official but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by the way, this isn't about politics! I disagree with Madeline Albright politically but it's great that Georgetown undergraduates have a chance to learn from her. McKew is actively dangerous because the one constant of the career is that she uses every platform to tell lies.
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I curse myself for falling down this rabbit hole at 2 in the morning but it's odd that her name isn't listed anywhere in the catalog in relation to the course, there's no website or syllabus either
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anyway, to sum up: 1) McKew is about as qualified to teach a class on Russian hybrid warfare as any given content mill click farmer. Her one contribution to the "literature," the so-called Gerasimov Doctrine, has been repeatedly debunked as a paranoid chimera
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(she did not invent the concept but she leveraged it into fifty thousand articles and speaking gigs by misinterpreting it in the most tendentious way possible)
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2) she has a habit of smearing people on the basis of national origin, among other incredibly flimsy pretexts 3) she habitually acts as an agent of foreign governments without revealing this status. right now she appears to be on the payroll of the Estonian government
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4) a student who takes her class will not know which of her ideas are truth, which are credible suppositions, and which are complete fabrications. her fantasies about an imminent Russo-Estonian War are only the latest in a long career of unhinged fearmongering.
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If you're reading this thread, you might be interested in an event tonight at Politics and Prose Union Market: I'll be talking with Tony Wood, author of the excellent RUSSIA WITHOUT PUTIN. https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/tony-wood-russia-without-putin-money-power-and-myths-of-new-cold-war-in-conversation …
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(I have been informed by a credible source that McKew is not in fact employed by the Estonian government, despite appearances. Mea culpa.)
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in case you've arrived at this thread from the Hoya article, please see my full comments here:https://twitter.com/athenogenes/status/1089897555633364993?s=19 …
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Is this actually happening? What, seriously, is the rationale behind this most dunderheadedly inappropriate decision?
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she's adjunct teaching IPOL 401, yes, and not being in sfs it's hard for me to understand the calculations
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Is it too much to expect some bright undergrads to pick apart the inanity and paranoia of her theories/accusations? Maybe, face to face with some inquisitive and less gullible interlocutors, it'll be a case of the emperor having no clothes. Can only hope.
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I have no doubt someone will call her out on her shit and probably get a bad grade for it, but the external optics and laundering effect worries me
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Yes. she is a dumbass, and this whole thing is depressing.
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"imperialist insurgency"
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That's GLOBAL imperialist insurgency. Don't water it down. :)
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And I thought historians were the masters of watering down "global"
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She really used the term "imperialist insurgency?" That makes no sense.
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Maybe it's when the imperialists mount an insurgency against the anti-imperialists? The imperialists are trying to liberate countries from the oppression of sovereignty?
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I interpret it as her trying to call Russian imperialist (true), while at the same time trying to make it seem like some upstart due to its asymmetrical tactics. But it's still dumb.
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You're far more generous that I am.
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