• TheCaconym [any]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Jesus Christ. I should be surprised but of course I'm not.

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      These academics have like states goals to subvert and destroy western identities.

      This will never not be funny to me. I don't know how it went for academics in Europe, but I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own 'colleagues') during the Soviet Union's existence; I can't imagine it has gotten much better in the proceeding decades. And I can't imagine it was much different over there.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The last chapter of Against Empire (Imperialism in Academia) is basically just a 15 page list of all the leftist professors that were buried, starved, or fired for being leftists.

      • TheCaconym [any]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        The largest public research organization in Europe - the CNRS, it's French - actually published an official statement explaining that "islamo-leftism" wasn't actually a thing, and also saying that post-colonial studies were actual valid science; that following the braindead remarks of some of Macron's ministers.

        Not that the public listened of course.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own ‘colleagues’) during the Soviet Union’s existence

        I was in school during the Bush Era. My liberal arts professors ranged from liberal dove to Goldwater-tier crank. The closest thing to a Marxist I ever encountered was a math professor, and he was in a constant state of despair about US politics. Hardly a revolutionary actor.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      People read way too much into the observation that Marx was an academic and Mao was a teacher.

      Stalin was a fucking bank robber. Nobody seems overly concerned at the prospect of a bank robber destroying western civilization, and yet they're far more explicit in stating goals to this effect.