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Bradford Vivian@bradvivian.bsky.social |
Take off the table the idea that this is an empirically sound and responsible argument (it's not). Instead, let's focus on where this way of talking about universities comes from and who it serves, based on recent historical precedent. A Thread . . . 1/10
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Porter
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Thank you this was an excellent and informative response to this article.
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Freedom
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What the white.
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Bradford Vivian
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"Universities" are not one thing (there are over 4,500 of them in the U.S.). Most of what they do doesn't fall into "liberal" or "conservative" stereotypes. Such framing is a typically hyperbolic and un-serious way to discuss the pros and cons of higher ed today. 2/10
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Ian in the upper left
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The targets are the intentional weakening of any social scientific progress through their call to go back to "more traditional" forms of education. When you can delegitimize the disciplines at their source that directly refute your ideologies, you win. That is what the right is doing.
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J. D.
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The subtitle is perfect because a non-redpilled, reasonable person could read it and be uncertain what antecedent was meant by "they."
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Jason Green
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Maybe the crux of the problem is Barro’s apparent belief that the raison d’être of a university is the passing down of truth.
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Jill R. Kelly
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I read the dishonest "they" as conservatives and liberals.
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Riverdaleboy
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I don't see a thread. I've looked. Am I doing it wrong?
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Paul Arzooman
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I'm just annoyed by the focus on STEM as if all the US needs to crank out are techies and stock brokers. The rest of us should just learn a vocation so we can keep their streets clean, serve them drinks and make sure transportation runs on time.
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Energetic Nova
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The author of this article went to Harvard.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Ba...
Well maybe he is right about Harvard.
maybe he would have been happier going to Oregon State University where they let in most people who apply.
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Elliot Ghoul
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Did something happen to Josh Barrow? Was he always black pilled?
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Andromeda Yelton
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Also, a Harvard grad responding to a Harvard-driven media cycle? As you say, universities are not all one thing. (And Harvard has its own particular breed of nihilism.)
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Nolan Zugernat
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Josh Barro is such a lightweight.
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TheSporkMaster
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Neither conservatives or liberals like higher learning because most people see through their bullshit and control schemes once they graduate.
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