Anonymous #1 12w

That is called brainwashing

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Anonymous #3 12w

Gonna tell myself that low key. Hope it’s true

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Anonymous #2 12w

They’re really not.

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Anonymous #4 12w

they really are. look no further than how quickly columbia and big 10 schools (among others) capitulated to federal pressure. look at how private institutions across the country are preemptively adopting austerity economics in anticipation of the fallout of this administration. look at how they did the same thing during covid, often while turning profits and growing endowments

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Anonymous #4 12w

look at how they continue to allow misogyny and white supremacy to flourish under the pretense of “viewpoint diversity.” look at the entanglements they have with the private sector to support STEM research. look at the rise of predatory for profit institutions. look at the Cold War policies of postsecondary education as ambassadors for western democracy in the “third world.”

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Anonymous #4 12w

look at the post-land grant rhetoric that positioned universities as engines for industrial development, and the post WW2 rhetoric that positioned colleges as a space for creating a managerial class of worker assimilated to the values of middle class capifalism.

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Anonymous #4 12w

look at the early history of universities in the US, a credentialing system for the clergy, the legal and medical fields. and later: a space for reproducing the classical, western education. and later: a space for promulgating the values of republicanism.

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Anonymous #4 12w

look at their absolute dependency on settler colonialism. pre-revolutionary war universities used indigenous education programs to scam British patrons out of money. land grant colleges were a literal solution to the question of how to make colonized land profitable.

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Anonymous #4 12w

colleges are deeply invested in capitalism, democracy, propagating a narrative of class mobility, and reproducing the canonical ways of making knowledge in western societies. most of the learning they offer depends upon an increasingly adjunctified and underpaid class of worker, and are largely staffed by similarly underpaid staff and often students themselves

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Anonymous #4 12w

they are fiscally conservative and slow to change. there is almost nothing progressive about them, except that somebody might talk about Marx once in a while, and even he is a member of the rarefied class of texts that they position as legitimate knowledge

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