I am being forced to sign a paper that says racism bad, woe is me, literally 1980

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    1 year ago

    I wonder how they feel about the pro-Israel, anti-BDS loyalty oaths that academics have had to sign for years

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      This guy probably spends time frothing at the mouth about treason if you don’t pledge loyalty to the flag. All “free thinkers” are like this. They couch their conformism in performative anticonformism.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        1 year ago

        For example: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/12/07/boycott-israel-over-apartheid-brings-punishment-arizona/69703634007/

        https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/

  • iridaniotter [she/her, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes Commiefornia is so progressive that it makes Stalin look like a conservative... No, the truth is the USSR was centuries ahead in its multiculturalism. China has had a form of affirmative action that would turn the average American into a frothing Klansman if it was implemented here. Cuba has the most progressive family code in the world. Fuck it, the North Korean economy is so much more optimized than America's that they can develop nuclear weapons with a budget smaller than the NYPD. Sorry America, but you suck at everything. shrug-outta-hecks

  • Rom [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    In Soviet Russia, any academic would face a similar requirement to declare allegiance to the principles of Marx and Lenin

    What the fuck is he even talking about here? Is there even a remote kernel of truth this is being wildly misinterpreted from or was it pulled whole-cloth straight from his ass?

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It’s a Frankenstein combination of the anecdotes they learned in high school about how USSR bad. Liberals are inherently academically dishonest, so I wouldn’t discount the possibility of them just inventing it then and there because it “feels right”

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, even if they couldn't find proof of it, they would insist it "probably happened, so we should assume it did." or "They just didn't keep records of it, but it happened." or "They did even worse things, so they must've done this too!"

        They have like, 3 canned responses when called out. It gets so tiring.

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Liberals have the unique ability to construe proof against their claims as evidence that proves them right. If there is no evidence it must mean my enemies have destroyed it.

  • robinn2
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