Well, not for about....80 years or so.

The panic of people who have never been to school and what they think happens there is so stupid.

Before university I only ever knew a handful of non white kids.

During university I met and studied with tons of friends from every background. It was not the system indoctrinating me, it was putting a bunch of people in a room with a shared interest turns them into friends and suddenly all the stereotypes fall apart.

The truth is when you get to know people of different cultures/orientations then you realize we're all basically the same. We have the same needs and the same wants. We have different languages, clothes, religions, sexualities. None of that really matters though.

So basically the red states are doing everything to make their students stupider. Got it.

What they think these tip lines will give: "My professor is dangerously woke, he used someone's pronouns today and is clearly some kind of terrorist"

What they'll actually get: about 1000 variations of "This course is too hard; I shouldn't have to attend the classes to pass"

Source: I teach at a university and we get a few if these every year; "ghosts" who think that paying a fee magically entitles them to a passing grade regardless of the quality of work they submit.

Welcome to Russia 2022... Oh wait...

The same people that have been sending little Eichmanns into classrooms for decades to try to "get" professors saying something they don't like are the very same asshats that queen out about being "cancelled" and cosplay at being "free speech absolutists", LOL.

What conservatives have actually been cancelled, I'd like to know? As far as I know all of them still have a voice, and are platformed more than ever.

Canadian scientists are being advised by university lawyers to only fly into the US, and we have pre arranged legal representation on retainer. But, I refuse to spend my grant money on US symposia and either I present remotely or not at all.

I've been on a US watchlist since I walked by the US consulate in Toronto on the night of the Iraq bombings and was identified from a photo.

I'm just here to say that "We've never seen this level of surveillance" is a weirdly hilarious thing to say.

Not saying this isn't a horrible situation at all, just giggled at that.

Posting syllabuses online, what a novel concept

The uneducated are easier to manipulate. Don’t want them to be too smart for Fox News.

There's a relevant part of the famous anti-fascist video from the US army fresh off of dealing with nazis that has a pretty relevant part pertaining to purging academia.

It's also for AI companies to steal more data and claim they can teach better.

It’s just a joke with America at this point, they’re all looking at this same puzzle that solves out to “fascism” but it’s missing a single piece and everyone is collectively pretending they can’t figure it out.