Yeah… I’m keen for everyone to read about this! I think that for all it’s flaws, academia is an institution that does matter and we should be concerned about the ongoing, sustained attacks that’s been happening for a while. I think this might seem to be out of left field for most people, but I think this is just another, more public front on the larger right wing attacks that have been ongoing for years and have contributed to the neo-liberal corporatization of academia. It seems like just as academia was truly becoming more democratic and equitable, there has been a backlash that attacked the humanities, which have become much more diverse in the past few decades. I don’t think these specific laws are disconnected from the proletarianization of the academy but are merely the next logical step in the neo-liberal/right wing gutting of academia…
Also… crossposting this here…
