"As recently as a decade ago, a majority of Republicans said they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education." And that trust has collapsed. Very true. Now, either the behavior of faculty changed dramatically about a decade ago, or something changed in American politics. 🤔
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It’s not like anything notable happened to Repubs that year.
Those 50s numbed soldiers got lost.
Financial capture of academia is a layer of poison that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Hell, I bet today's Republicans could even politicize computer science
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#MAGACultMorons
Pew.
Republicans, until 2004, were more likely to have a college degree. They now distrust education. in the main, because they don’t have one.
educated people who the system has failed tend to move left not right. witness former bartender AOC.
Trump wants us to believe that it’s all justified to fight antisemitism. As if…
welfare in red states
B) Let me suggest that people in civil society organizing around what they see as unjust war or an effort to attack their democracy is not, in fact, bad, and not comparable to people losing their shit because a trans person had a bud light
Do you think they want laws that allow companies to fire employees based on their exercising their right to public assembly?
All matters affecting anyone other than one’s self is political.
“political: of or pertaining to a polity, civil affairs, or government;" from Latin politicus "of citizens or the state”.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scary-implications-of-u-s-government-attacks-on-medical-journals/
seems like there's a soupçon of hypocrisy that can be pointed out that begs the question: "Why are Republicans working to shut down education for all while still sending their kids to the best?"