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[–]FlippyKing 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it is high time we stop having any respect for these schools in light of the admission scandal and coupled with the fact that once into these Ivy leagues schools they bend over backwards to make sure you graduate. These are psychopath factories and finishing schools for narcissists, who cheat to get in, cheat to get out, and cheat everyone else when they enter their professions. The institutions exist not as schools in and of themselves but within a framework of political power, corporate power, personal prestige and money. If we question the drug companies that push the idea of "trans" people and especially the idea of "trans kids" (and you can't really question the latter while thinking the former is a legitimate concept), then we have to question the institutions that fill these corporations with the talking heads that spew the corporate BS.

I hope she wins her fight and all that, but the problem is not just bad ideas "invading" academia, the problem is the inherent authoritarianism and power in academia and especially in accepting the notion that there are elite institutions worthy of prestige. Perhaps there once was, but we do not live in those mythological times anymore.