Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)
They’ve been attacking universities for a while. Or see the insanity of the University of Austin.
Chasing people out of STEM is a well documented current phenomenon - they’ve been doing it to history departments for a while…
Turns out “thought police” was just another projection of the GQP
Oh they always appropriate the language and people from the other side (after they are gone). In addition to projecting everything they want to do (cancel others, enact a strict political correctness on everything from how those they perceive as enemies behave when a song is played a piece of cloth is present to how consenting adults express their love, etc…), that is.
They tried to claim that MLK is one of theirs (lol) even as they called him Communist (and far worse, of course, given they are filled to the brim with overt racists).
They even try to claim Orwell as one of theirs…WTAF? Orwell was a socialist, FFS. You have to be some kind of extreme dumbass or into brazen lying to spout such nonsense, but it turns out the qons are into both things - being incredibly ignorant and/or top-tier lying.
So when it comes to things like “thought crime” - Marco Rubio has already expressed that he thinks the government has the right to kidnap people they think don’t have the right thoughts.
They want public education to be North Korea style and private education to be only for the wealthy.
Feel bad for my friends who have kids not yet at the age of reason.
Dad said colleges ruined his relationship with his kids… no dumbass your kids dont like you because you are a child and college gave them chance to be independent
The last election results have shown that we’re already very stupid and don’t need the assistance.
This is nothing new for the GOP. The Texas GOP accidentally said the quiet part out loud in 2012.
From the Texas 2012 GOP Platform
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
This is why educational outcomes in red states are so bad, particularly in the south where the GOP often controls legislative and executive branches. People are scared of things they don’t understand so undermining education makes people easier to scare. Why do they want to scare people, you might ask? Because scared people tend to vote conservative.
Over the past few years, a number of experiments have begun to shed light on the relationship between emotion and political inclinations. “There’s empirical research that suggests that when people are primed with images of mortality—graveyards, hospitals, the elderly—this can move them to the right,” said John Hibbing, who directs the political physiology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Some studies suggest that people who are already conservative may be extra-sensitive to these images.
That over-active amygdala.
They pretend education is dogmatic indoctrination when it’s really learning scientific and philosophical methods and methodologies to think critically and evaluate arguments and evidence for yourself, and pretend their childhood religious dogma indoctrination with an unquestionable clergy authority isn’t damaging their ability to evaluate truth by lowering the bar of evidence to faith and personal experience when they deny those same garbage methods for every other religion but their own.
Does this mean I won’t have to get higher education to get that high paying job that requires a degree? Oh man this is awesome. /s
why bother? the populace is already there, and educated people either leave or won’t act
They’ve been doing a great job. They even have regular folks burning g and banning books on their behalf.
It’s all about damn control.
The Real Reason They’re Attacking Universities: Trying to intellectually neuter the populace.
Anyone who thought otherwise have sadly already fallen victim to their ongong actions into crippling eductation and spreading propaganda.
