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   Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 02:32:43 JST Jeff Jarvis

   This credulous coverage fails completely at recognizing this as a right-wing attack on education, thus doing the job of the right-wing:
   The Next Battle in Higher Ed May Strike at Its Soul: Scholarship https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/plagiarism-harvard-claudine-gay-neri-oxman.html?smid=tw-share

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     Bob Wyman (bobwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 02:32:43 JST Bob Wyman

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     It is much more than merely a "right-wing attack on education." It is part of a much broader attack on all of our society's institutions and traditions. The goal is not to improve institutions but rather to weaken them and thus leave the people without resort to any trusted sources of information or truth.

     The strategy is what Lincoln would have called "Ruin to Rule:" Ruining the current system in order to make it easier to take over and rule.