From @MikeNayna's doc on Evergreen State, a line I can't get out of my head:
"I can't make you agree or disagree — I hate to even use that language, of agree or disagree — but when you're here you are required by your job to create an atmosphere in which all children can learn."
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I think most college students perceive the hierarchy in which they and their professors exist to be largely collaborative, and they benefit from *their direct higher-ups climbing* moreso than from climbing themselves at the expense of those higher-ups
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So when college students watch their professors debase themselves, repeatedly and consistently, they feel anxiety, frustration, and ultimately *resentment.* We had an agreement! YOU are supposed to be guiding ME, raising ME up, but at every opportunity you're lowering yourself!
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I don't think it's surprising that they try to bring themselves under the umbrella of the figures that are capturing the social capital & power, and one way to do that is by attacking a perceptibly weak element of resistance: the few who are neither capitalizing nor capitulating
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After all, if the resistance succeeds, where does that leave them? Who knows. Their direct higher-ups have already irrecoverably revealed themselves to be unworthy of their position. There's no going back, which is what the resistance appears to be aiming for.
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One implication of this story I'm telling (which may be closer to or further from the truth, but definitely isn't the whole truth): **the behavior of the students is largely a dependent variable.** The table is set by a few instigators & a critical mass of faculty fully yielding
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In some backwards way, it reminds me of ~every Fortnite player (at least the kids). They berate the one who kills them not out of truly believing that player is 'trash' etc but b/c they'll most likely get killed too, which (to them) would further confirm poor judgement.
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It makes sense to want the player who eliminates you to be better than you. But even if my little brother can overcome the resistance and support the player who just finished him, what about when that player gets finished off?
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