Why start with no when you just agreed with me?
Compromise is also paying taxes for a war you don’t support or getting drafted to fight in one you don’t believe in. Bullshit is when a Christian says abortion is murder but prays to god to help kill his enemies.
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Are you aboriginal Australian?
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No I’m not. Its obvious where you’re going with this. As you are from the UK I assume you are accepting your degree of white guilt, from what your ancestors actions did to indigenous Australians? You don’t get away that easily bud:)
We can get into colonialism if you like?
Ok, I see what you’re getting at. Yeah I think that would be helpful, and it would have the bonus of making them pass legislation more slowly (i.e. less interference) by forcing them to talk lol
I could have phrased that question better but I’m not going down that route, just wanted to know what you meant and who you meant by your comments about natives and immigrants.
Don’t know if I’m a globalist, I’ve seen that term used in different ways but I’m not concerned by movement of people. I do get concerned when governments buy up land abroad. You’ve made long posts so I won’t do a back and forth on all points and I’m sure no one is interested. Universities here need a large foreign student body to survive, I’m not bothered by people coming for education I am bothered by my governments education policy. It favours the rich. I’ve worked with refugees and diverse groups, I’m not concerned.
It seems that a Brit and an Australian has derailed this thread.
Well this is not quite true. Universities in the UK and everywhere else for that matter , did just fine teaching locally, served the country and community admirably.
Now they are corporatised, they are really businesses concerned with maximising profit. They rely on their history and reputation to attract students from abroad. From what I have seen at least in the humanities they have been taken over by neo marxists, and the standard of general education and critical thought has evaporated. You pay, you pass.
I think we’re half agreeing on this. It’s the education policy that forced them to become corporatised.
Agreed.
The ones who fought got more or less the same fate, just more beat up
On of my professors said that grad students “were left of Marx”
For the humanities/social sciences, I concur, but my classmates in CS would agree to disagree
Wrote mine in. Did my part for the third party cause.
Depending on what side you associate with the Movement for a People’s Party is for disaffected Democrats who’ve reached the point of disgust. Realizing the Democratic Party is not a real opposition party to the republicans except maybe on some cultural issues. They now search for an organization to represent their material interests. And the Dems ain’t it.
Healthcare? Minimum wage? Voter rights? Environment? Regulation? Education?
Yeah, both parties are the same.
Are these the policies of the Democrats that they pay more than lip service to, or is it the wants of the public?
And the professors that teach the classes?
So since the universities are concerned with maximizing profits, are you saying neo-Marxism sells?
Well, in the humanities its the only product they offer. Its hard to know now, most students straight from school have been primed by secondary school teachers that have had a neo marxist tertiary education. The students probably can’t conceive of anything other than neo marxism.
When I went to uni( a long time ago) it was about learning how to think, separating the wheat from the chaff of an argument, not just accepting a position that was taught. Now the only perspective is one of the neo marxist ie post colonial, feminist, gay etc.
Even at a 60% approval to pass, Florida legalized medical cannabis and recently $15/hr. minimum wage in a state Trump won. The people wanted it so they voted for it. It wasn’t under the control of some asshole politician. Ballot initiatives are close to direct democracy. Fuck the politicians!
You answered a question with a question.
It isn’t. Humanities is more than sociology, gender studies and political science.
Also not true. Many high school teachers are left leaning but not “woke.” A good number are conservative. It’s administrators, politicians, activists and lawyers who are behind any “woke” bs you see in schools. Most teachers want to teach without having to double as social workers.
If you are in one of the new, made up majors, without a history of scholarship.
Any subject that can get directly effected by Marxist teaching is effected. Even if they don’t directly teach it(eg languages), the administration of it(the whole university) is effected by Marxist principles.
I never said they were woke, the opposite actually they are unaware that they have been indoctrinated. They just accepted an ideology as fact, and were not taught of possible alternatives, or encouraged to develop their own critical skills, except deconstructionism.
It may be that way for the moment, in some subjects but it is waning. Think about what will happen when you retire from university work? The only replacements left will be those who know nothing but the Marxist agenda.You really think someone with more balanced views, if they still exist, will get the job over one of the “believers”?
As for subjects that do have a history of scholarship, they fair no differently. History for example, instead of being judged by the values of the time it was written, is put under the cultural Marxist lens of judgement. This is in part due to the fact that so much of the work on big picture events and perspectives has already been done. If you want to do something new then you have to mine the obscure, the role of gays, slaves, women or some other minor player. You don’t study history anymore you study a subject that confirms the relative mortal superiority of the present Marxist policies over the racist, sexist, homophobic, evil people of the past.
This has happened before. Ask yourself what happened to the communist party in Italy. Americans are late to the game. Eventually stupid ideas get exposed.
It might be a long time though. 2-3 generations or when reality finally asserts itself over ideological belief.