• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 days ago

    personally, I think academia is gonna be on the chopping block. there are so many spineless, sniveling fascist collaborators running massive capital formations we call "universities", eager to preside over an accelerated raiding of institutional value once they are granted the free hand to do so by a federal bully teasing the withholding of federal funding. these scumbags want to race each other to the bottom, so long as their remuneration packets go up and they can crush whatever remains of the shared governance models or any staff unions that have resisted their dreams of an administratively-bloated, neoliberal, managerial university that owns all the real estate, pays no property tax, and extracts everything from the students, educators, researchers and workers that create all the value and social capital. what happened to WVU in the last years is coming for all of the state schools.

    the shuttering of DEI offices and eviscerating of what remains of these public institutions in the dissemination of critical thinking has only just begun. get ready for all job training, all the time. University of [Blank], Brought to you by Amazon and Butch Jenkins Motors.

    • janny [they/them]
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      6 days ago

      the shuttering of DEI offices and eviscerating of what remains of these public institutions in the dissemination of critical thinking has only just begun. get ready for all job training, all the time. University of [Blank], Brought to you by Amazon and Butch Jenkins Motors.

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      and honestly that's a good thing.

      People need to get Athusser pilled. Universities aren't "public goods", they are ideological state apparatuses. The harm they cause (the imperialist collaborationism, the above average incidents of sexual assault andremoved, the mental health epidemic they create on campus that lingers in their victims post graduation, the destruction they do to their host city's economies and housing markets) is not incidental to the workings o the university but instrumental to its operations.

      Let them die, let them die, let them shrivel up and die.