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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
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!
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
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.
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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