Honest question: Do most people think that defending folks accused of being communists in McCarthy era was effective use of social capital? Seems plausible, but also plausible that McCarthism was driven by larger societal forces and best strategy was quietly riding out the storm.
If you're a student or donor or otherwise have some leverage within some university system, now may be the time to stand for somethinghttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1273721253677772800 …
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Any idea who the best person is to write to? I’m in the UK. Vice Chancellor, individual heads of departments, both? Thinking of making it an open letter and passing it round staff and students.
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Be careful, for if you are caught, the Vogons will read you PC poetry!
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Failing as a business model because it's failing as an educational model...let them cancel themselves...there will always be a place for true educators
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Academia has long since outlived its usefulness. Burn it all.
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That is ASTOUNDINGLY less important than the police reform legislation being debated in congress right now as there's no more riots (sorry that the discussion has moved on to something harder to take a stand on) + spike in sunbelt Covid cases. THIS is the distraction.
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This seems uncharitable. I agree there are Worse Things. That doesn't seem like a reason to ignore Bad Things, especially since
@webdevMason specified those capable of effecting change for this specific Bad Thing. I doubt taking a stand on academia neg affects COVID outcomes. No? - 4 more replies
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Racial classification is beyond PC orthodoxy. That is *wanting* to find a biological reason for racism. So 19th century.
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Except most students buy into the ridiculousness, and most donors donate because they support those institutions. The university as a place for actual, original and critical thought is dead. When the buildings are razed to the ground we might be able to assemble something new.
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