Spoken like a true egotist.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @benjamingrundy
Okay, how about this "smart guy". I agree with your sentiment. I also have a master's degree in marketing and understand, as you fail to, that when you start throwing out caustic terminology and "clever" respellings to dodge Twitter, nobody will give a shit about your argument.
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Replying to @ThePurdude @benjamingrundy
the top tweet has 145k impressions, so somebody gives a shit you think elite academia isn’t aware of these problems? they just need somebody to gently indicate their insufficiencies & they’ll fix it? they are an insular elite with massive cultural power & absolute job security
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They are an insular and arrogantly powerful elite. But the job security is not absolute. North American universities have a demographic crisis of fewer students. Canada especially.https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/local-news/i-was-terminated-from-laurentian-university-today …
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yes, good point. one should never overstate this. though, at elite American institutions, the tenured faculty are in very high and imposing towers.
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It will hit the weakest, least prestigious institutions first. But this is Berkeley, and they were cutting back even before corona.https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates …
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I’ve been trying to understand why American Corona response is so much more moderate than EU/UK approach. I think part of it may be the huge investment of elites in the private university system there, and the impossibility of charging insane tuition and continuing the scam ...
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @romanclemente7 and
... on the basis of some distance learning courses. (Not to be ignored: a lot of the elite schools spent pre-pandemic years shitting on MOOCs and distance learning, as it threatened their brand).
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less corona hysteria in North america. But they make up for it with CRT and woke radicalization. I don't think it is a co-incidence that the wokeness pandemic in 2020 exploded with further economic decline of media and universities.
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no, I know the wokery has reached new heights. I can only imagine how insane it is.
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