SANITYChristopher Rufo makes sure 2024 gets off to a great start: Sets up a bounty system for catching plaigarism and other academic fraud in university leadership. This might make a lot of diversity-hires crap their pants

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[–]JulienMayfair 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

protest foreign policy

Yeah, but college students have been protesting U.S. foreign policy for decades with minimal reaction from the government. And if those college presidents had been able to defend their actions on principle instead of giving non-answers to direct questions, it wouldn't have gone so badly for them. Everyone watching could tell that they were being evasive. They embarrassed themselves by being so clumsy about it, and we expect better from presidents of prestigious universities.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The MIT president gave a better response. I heard a good take today from Ryan Grim that some people get into majors as "busy work" in order to reach some other position in life... For example you want to be in a "leadership" role but a prerequisite is having a PhD in a related field. So the person pushes through the degree and doesn't really care about the research. They just want the piece of paper so they can apply for other positions. The Harvard president seems like she might have fit that description.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

interestingly that's part of my thesis on how "SJWism" became so big in the 10s: there weren't any protests about foreign policy under Obama (and that was only partly because he was The First Black President): no marches for the hundreds of TWOC (triple Progressive Stack score!) murdered by narco-police in Honduras, not a damn thing against Libya, Syria, Yemen

of course college is where everyone's told they're the generation that'll set things right, that now is the time when they have the time and certitude to protest SOMETHING: but instead we got shit like "those privileged janitors on campus hanging the TP underhand is ABLEIST" blasts air horn at anyone asking why