Academia as gatekeepers

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[–]Bigs 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

WTF are you talking about?

Are you getting mixed up with Pol Pot? And academics are absolutely gatekeepers, creating canons of knowledge just like the religious, and used in the same way to defend and justify government or royalty.

Academics "teach" you that only "qualified" people, using "peer review" (other "qualified people") can determine "truth". It's 100% a selection of gates, kept by gatekeepers, to keep the plebes in the dark and in line.

Government can do whatever it likes, and can just trot out an 'academic' or an 'academic peer reviewed study' to justify it. The entire 'global warming... er change... or extreme weather... er..." movement is a classic example of that, as are the covid attacks on humanity.

[–]Schwarzenigga 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Read about the history of attacks on academics. You've failed miserably at the attempt to claim academics are gatekeepers. You are responsible for your information.

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

Do you have a peer-reviewed study on the attacks?

[–]Schwarzenigga 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Numerous academics in Nazi Germany were Jewish, and many academics who joined them in concentration camps were not Jewish. It's easy to locate information. Search: academics concentration camps . There were also academics who chose to join the Nazi party. None of these academics (in or out of concentration camps) were 'gatekeepers'.

Authoritarian groups always try to control and/or diminish academic options, because they are the biggest threat to authoritarians. Here is a sample article, albeit not focused on ademics in concentration camps:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10323732211027621

[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Well the abstract sez "They exploit original contemporary documents from the school’s surviving archival records, which seem highly valuable in their ability to expose the changing tone in these transcripts, the growing use of Nazi terminology and the rapid adoption of the Nazi doctrine."

So yeah, they just blew with the wind and turned nazi, offering absolutely nothing in the way of intellectual defense, instead they rapidly adopted the doctrines of those in power. Same old, same old.