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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All Americans - liberal, conservative, and apolitical - should be very concerned about the future of college given how Trump & Vance are attacking it. It is arson with no architecture. They don't have a vision for fixing it, they just want it to die.[/quote]

I am a college professor and I am just. so. sad.  I had my first experience yesterday with a 'fascist adjacent' student challenging my authority in class, like something out of the Cultural Revolution.  We had an assignment about Mid East politics and I had assigned them to read and discuss an op-ed that appeared in Al Jazeera.  "I'm not reading Al Jazeera and neither is anyone else,"  he told me.  "It's crap.  It's not something we should be reading."  I told him that he could fail the assignment but that it's important to get a well-rounded view of an issue, to read a variety of sources, and that Al Jazeera does a darned fine job of covering MidEast politics.  But I suspect he will not be the last student to get in my face and try to take control of my class.  A depressing future.  I am glad I can afford to retire early. [/quote]

Omg I’m so sorry. Please stand strong. Please [/quote]

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