Individuals within these institutions can act with integrity and independence.
However, higher education in the U.S. is not now and never has been an independent institution in that sense. It has been an agent of change only in terms of adjusting the window dressing. In our day as undergraduate students, they readily supplied draft boards with information on "troublemakers" among the students. They formed a first line of defense for racial, gender, and religious exclusionary practices in American civic life. On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM racatiwood via groups.io <racatiwood= [email protected]> wrote: > the moms (they literally call themselves Mothers Against College > Antisemitism, or "MACA"---I can't even 😫) are also out in full force: > https://theintercept.com/2025/01/31/nyu-gaza-protesters-deport-maca-antisemitism/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter > > > It's strictly speculation at this rate, but I would be 0% surprised if > this group were somehow connected to Bari Weiss. She got her start as a > public figure 20+ years ago as a student at Columbia by harassing > Palestine-sympathetic professors and trying to get the administration to > fire them...the same woman who loves to go on about free speech, but only > on her terms: https://jewishcurrents.org/the-real-war-on-free-speech > > Overall, I'm deeply worried about the threats this poses to American > higher education as an independent institution and agent of change, not to > mention the actual safety of marginalized elements of the student body. How > far are we on the path to full-on fascism if college administrations are > this complicit? > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34963): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34963 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110929543/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
