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All those big name elite schools are shit. People should be embarrassed to be associated with them. Not only are they affections of wealth, which inculcate elites into snobbery - but they’re all remnants of Colonialism - having taught some of the most abusive leaders how to be abusive colonial leaders via their own abusive cultures and technique (hazing, class systems, rape).
The entire time Trump and the alt-right were being popularised - the Oxford Union Debate Society was REGULARLY hosting figures like Ben Shapiro, and Tommy Robinson. They were honestly as bad as Joe Rogan when it came to platforming and legitimizing corrupt fascists and grifters.
It was an utter and depraved embarrassment to see. So now I have no respect for those “elite” schools, and the rich peices of shit that run them.
Yes yes yes! Agreed! Stanford is like ground zero of this shit!
Some top universities are also bastions of left opposition and intellectuals, I don’t know about Oxford but you can’t put all of them in the same bag.
Only in so much as it aids and placates the politics of their largest donors, or their sense of prestige/relevance. So it once again comes down to wealth, and politics. Be it the class interests of the wealthy, or the cultural interests of positioning.
But the days of being bastions of any true intellectual position are gone, they’re now profit interested businesses subject to the whims of management. Not the academic staff.
They’re businesses. Wealthy political businesses.
…and NOT intellectual institutions.
I guess this is a very English-world centered view. In France, public universities are not like that. I guess other social countries have similar universities.
Public unis in the US are quite rock solid in any state that prioritizes it’s people. Along with being fractions of the cost. My niece is getting her bachelor’s at the State Uni of New York as a resident for ~8k a year.
I don’t believe it. If they exist they have no influence, anyways.
Worse they’re complicit. Most of them revolk housing and enrollment of any international students or staff targetted by ICE. They just roll right over people as soon as the administration tells them to.
That’s not what real leftwing intellectual opposition to Trump does, it’s tacit collaboration with the administration.
Columbia in particular has opened their students doors for ICE: https://archive.is/YI6wI
…and 800 students and staff across the US have gone into ICE custody without protection or resistance from their universities.
Yale?
Def
I wondered if he was set up. Gotta love a white, gay, billionaire being racist af. /s
It was striking that many of these articles did not acknowledge that the central accusations were being made by a man who believes that inherited racial differences make black people less intelligent and would leave black people absent from virtually every elite position in public life outside of sport and entertainment.
They also did not mention that Cofnas had used the terms “retarded”, “illiterate”, and “mentally disabled” to describe Jason Arday, while noting that he was “black”.
What the hell is the “bylinetimes”?
Byline Times is a British alternative media website and newspaper launched in 2019 by Peter Jukes and Stephen Colegrave, who are also its executive editors.
[…]
The editor of Byline Times is Hardeep Matharu. Other writers and staff include its Special Investigations Reporter Nafeez Ahmed, former Spectator political columnist Peter Oborne, former BBC journalist Adrian Goldberg who hosts the Byline Times Podcast, former BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney, Kingston University’s professor of journalism Brian Cathcart, investigative journalist Iain Overton, Compass director Neal Lawson, and author Otto English.
Oh thank you my bad
Legitimately one of the two best sources of high quality journalism left in the UK.
(The other is Private Eye.)
