I’m beginning to think that the people who claimed to care deeply about academic liberty & freedom of speech on college campuses may not have been entirely honest.
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And the OP was about Trump cutting $Bns from Harvard- funds used to run hospitals etc
Oh the bonds were broken (by both sides) long before the miners strike. It was just the last hurrah from one protagonist. I think we may be living the last from the other
The triumph of Thacherism was it began UK's love for NeoLiberalism(low taxes, public service cuts, low wages, less opportunities for poor but rich got richer). Once called a 'bourgeois counter revolution'. EU went more social democratic & higher well being & wages as Germany or Denmark,Sweden etc
The divergence had started long before Thatcher but she used the growing dysfunction of British industry to do just as you write
Thatcher, Brexit - Tories have a lot to answer for. Mind Thatcher faced the most feeble opposition any government has
It took him only five or six years of being told loudly by trans people that they are fucking liars and they never cared about free speech or academic freedom at all. But now he's here.
If you criticise Israel as it carries out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide you will face a backlash from the establishment. Whether it be the USA or UK.
Indeed, but the silence of the UK/US Christians about those war crimes on Gaza kids is deafening. Showing that established conservative churches just legitimates the Gaza war horrors, US/ UK deep inequality & authoritarianism
War crimes, same in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Now dRump is abusing both groups of people
Human beings mean nothing to him... No empathy, compassion
Just evil, cruel, ruthless!
When we grew up in the post war period we drifted away from churches. It's not so much Christianity that's the problem is that middle class arrogance, indifference to the massive inequality evident in US/ UK. We saw the church was silenced,a quiet tool of oppression in it's conservative contentment
He has obviously kissed Drump's arse. I hope he catches something. I get that we have to make a deal with the orange buffoon. It just really really grates. Make America Grate Again
I’m beginning to think Americans still don’t realise Trump isn’t going to leave office, ever. There will be no mechanisms and no political opponents left in 2 years, never mind 4.
When you read about 1933 Berlin it was interesting how it slowly happened,Conservatives join with Nazis, the left & Jews intimidated in streets, the arts & cinema,press slowly closed down, propaganda control on radio, Nationalism, Patriotism, Hitler Cult, police become political, beatings of Jews...
There is no doubt in all modern/ contemporary history: when they come for the university campuses, you know you're on the brink of neofascism or authoritarianism. To reach that early 1933 point as in Germany. Only 1 thing next: they come for judiciary
The beauty of higher education is to learn to reason, research, become informed, and reach your own conclusions. This scares tyrants who want to keep the masses ignorant and scared.
Hence why Rupert Murdoch created his tabliod 'the Sun' for UK working class voters from circa 1980 onwards & Thatcher 3 wins. Then later got readers to vote Brexit, Johnson etc by giving them pages on which candidates to defeat Remainers. Sky & Fox news came next. Right wing hegemony total control.
Absolutely as in 1933 Nazi takeover where in first few months the creatives are taken out. Many flee, but it's the books, shows, theatre that closed down early. The fascist mind hates creativity,imagination,all types of diversity,expression, and free thought. The Trump Republicanism is dangerous.
The epitome of how UK Conservatism turned into a lettuce but broke the UK global bond market,crashed pension markets & sent interest rates soaring. The Right seem to smash our economies.
Bottom line is what's our own values, morales, principles...
For hard decisions like leaving a job, law firm, college, speak truth to power, whistle blower
We have to dig deep!
Be true to yourself..
Be genuine!
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They’ve never remotely cared about anyone else having the freedom to say things.
That was when the war was lost.
Oh the bonds were broken (by both sides) long before the miners strike. It was just the last hurrah from one protagonist. I think we may be living the last from the other
Thatcher, Brexit - Tories have a lot to answer for. Mind Thatcher faced the most feeble opposition any government has
Finally.
Slow clap.
Now dRump is abusing both groups of people
Human beings mean nothing to him... No empathy, compassion
Just evil, cruel, ruthless!
Christians give Christians a badddd name!
Magats 🐛 🐛.. Pseudo/faux Christians
Complicit, condoning all he's doing, believed
Can't plead ignorance
Making us a shat hole country! ‼️
*No; you're not having my book title.
That said a bit of pain on his way out would be some justice.
They want the population to be uneducated, ignorant.. Easier to manage people... Gullible as i Said all along
It has become clear that for some, academic freedom was only ever a shield for their own views—not a principle to defend for all.
For hard decisions like leaving a job, law firm, college, speak truth to power, whistle blower
We have to dig deep!
Be true to yourself..
Be genuine!
They want a national white supremacy...
The rest are enemies
https://journalism.columbia.edu/