Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism and antisemitism scandals

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Hmmm… I don’t know… I’ll have to think on this a bit more. :thinking:

I agree with that… it’s a far right attack on academia that has been more open to a wider variety of people and ideas since the 70s (but just barely)… I had some right winger once demand to see my syllabus, as she somehow found out that I was using Howard Zinn one semester… Nothing came of it, of course, because it was a perfectly legitimate text to be using (The People’s History), but still… This has been building for a while, at the same time that the academy has been taking a turn towards the corporate…

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… there is an unaffiliated mirror site called “nitter”

https://nitter.net/drvolts/status/1742296213628788970
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The sheer amount of projection makes we wonder how TF these creatures live with their doubtless painful (b/c so massive) cognitive dissonance.

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The three legs of Rufo’s strategic stool are basic organizing tools — creating a message, attracting financial patronage and forging political alliances. It is notable that he can pull these levers. But that may say more about our times than about Rufo himself. The financial donors who wanted to exert control had the money and political will. The politicians have been freed from the shackles of voters who would penalize them for bad behavior. If there is any real strategy at work here, it is the message the Rufo team created. He gives credit to conservative journalists like Christopher Brunet and Aaron Sibarium. The message interpolates several old tropes into a liberal-sounding message about merit.

gift link.

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