Not at all! Given university politics, it’s worth knowing more about it. But the write up just seemed to distort the guy’s own statement about what happened, then didn’t link to anything that would illuminate the situation. All he says is that the admin asked him to coordinate a lecture series, then didn’t like his…
True. And we’ve done similar things where I teach. Just pointing out that based on the guy’s own Twitter, it doesn’t appear that this was a course for credit.
I’ll bite. What is actual academic freedom?
Based on his Twitter post, I’m not sure you’re portraying this incident correctly. He says that his rejected proposals were for a “lecture series.” This is qualitatively different from a seminar (or a class, as you refer to it later). Coordinating a lecture series usually involves spending money provided by a…
No. You have a reading comprehension problem. I’m arguing that Flake’s words will change nothing and are worthless. It isn’t action, or actionable. All of these people can act now, but they don’t because they like Trump’s policy positions. Disliking Trump’s attitude or personality is absurd and gets no brownie points.…
Dude, you need to pay attention. On multiple occasions (I pulled these off a list of things he said on the campaign trail, so this isn’t guesswork) he spoke out:
Don’t fall for that. Trump and his team put forth many policy positions over the course of the campaign. He may be a neophyte, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have policy positions. It just means that the MSM (and you) ignored them. Anti-immigration? Check. Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate America? Check.…
If he like the Republican agenda, then he likes Trump. Trump is the living embodiment of the Republican agenda. His voters are statistically identical to every Republican coalition since Nixon. So what, he just doesn’t like his tone? Because being a polite racist who despises the poor people and hates women is better…
No, I don’t think you’re joking. I just don’t want to fucking imagine it.
Neoliberal agency is a bitch. And it definitely hasn’t been kind to organized labor.
Government job. State. DoD. As part of a background check. My dad did it as a company employee who worked on classified jobs for the government. It still happens.
Actually, a former State Department guy told me that some of his colleagues did indeed put a thumbtack in their socks back in the day. They’d press on it when they answered the innocuous baseline questions (“Are you so-and-so?” “Are you such-and-such age?”) to create stress during the answer.
“Can’t wait for Senate Majority Leader Roy Moore...”
He could become an (I)ndependent and caucus with the Democrats.
Honestly I don’t think this represents any real change in attitude among white voters. My dad (75 year old racist from central California) would not claim to be “oppressed” per se. However, he did always rant and rave against the super-secret extra good welfare that minorities received, all funded by his tax dollars,…
Same here. Me neither.
You’re always so fucking on point. I’ll just add that I was also really pissed when Obama and Co. called “bygones” on the previous administration (“let’s move forward”) and the shitbags responsible for catastrophic economic meltdown. There was a window that could have been exploited to launch a few investigations,…
IPA is my Kryptonite. I’ve also been trying to change up my drinking and diet routine lately: cut out pb&j every day for lunch in favor of pita with chicken breast and veggies; cut out toast and coffee for breakfast in favor of oatmeal with almonds; and substituting red wine for beer. I haven’t dropped any weight, but…
This is a good list.