I forgot to mention that during several woke struggle sessions of the past year the Chair of Physics loudly and insistently expressed his belief that there are no structural racism, sexism and homophobia at our university and that he knows for sure that nobody at his department is racist.
I’m sure that it’s a complete coincidence that Physics was slated for elimination before anybody else.
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“loudly and insistently expressed his belief that there are no structural racism”
Poor SOB took what they said at face value….
Struggle sessions (or the equivalent) are _never_ about the issue they are supposedly addressing. They are compliance tests, 100% of the time.
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Yes, he’s Middle Eastern, and seriously naive.
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Idealistic I would say, rather than naive. As befits any native of countries where freedom of speech and the rule of law are not even concepts or, at best, hollow words with no real counterparts in reality. Then, one day you get to America or any of the other great Anglo-sphere countries and you realise: “Wow! You can have freedom of speech without the secret police dragging you away from your home in the middle of the night or from the street in full daylight!”. “You can have powerful people being held accountable by independent institutions, it was not a dream!”.
Well, that was a couple of decades ago, if ever. The poor guy must have spent too long pent up in his laboratory hard at work on solving some great problem, oblivious to the fact that the written constitution and the “material” constitution – as jurists say here in Italy – are two completely different things.
Poor fellow, he unwittingly signed his own and the department’s death sentence. Plus, not many pigmented students in physics I imagine, and many of those few repeatedly being failed in spite of the Dean’s constant reminder of equity goals. He really didn’t stand a chance, poor sod.
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Sadly, l don’t believe saying something else would have saved his department. Maybe he could have delayed the execution a bit, but the end result would still be the same.
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I’m curious what will happen with Gender Studies. They have no students and are incredible princesses. But the prices director constantly gives impassionate speeches about how wonderful these budget cuts are.
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Oh, I agree with you. It’s just that the Head of Physics gave Administration the rope with which to hang him. If he’d shut up, Admin would have had to provide the rope themselves. Just saying.
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Have faith, and a sense of humour ;-D
https://moonbattery.com/tragic-tale-of-a-thwarted-career/
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The reality is that all the ideological degrees are staying very much in place. It’s the really useful ones that are gone. Our Physics graduates had a 100% employment and made, on average, $70,000+ upon graduation. These are numbers from before the inflation.
People are lying to themselves if they think ideology will suffer. It won’t. To the contrary, it will be stronger because its competitors are being wiped out.
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My education cost considerable money, most of it earned by hard labour at dirty and often dangerous work. Borrowing would have required years to repay. If there are no returns for that effort, monetary or otherwise, those institutions will eventually fail, and deservedly so.
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