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   🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 (zdl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 12:46:51 JST 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

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   • (((Cindy Weinstein)))

   @CindyWeinstein The difference between Chinese culture and American culture is most starkly spelled out right here.

   Historically in China universities and their analogues have been the hotbeds of rebellion and revolution. The Chinese government is *acutely* aware of this and monitors schools very thoroughly to head off problems before they begin.

   In the USA schools are so much part of the system that they quietly and meekly acquiesce to the government so there's no real need for oversight.

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     (((Cindy Weinstein))) (cindyweinstein@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 12:46:52 JST (((Cindy Weinstein)))

     "It’s one thing to be reminded that “elections have consequences,” but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral. For university leaders the exception is their opposition to endowment taxes. On this topic, they’re inclined to be positively brat." -- Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan

     https://slate.com/life/2025/02/colleges-universities-trump-policy-resistance.html

     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 repeated this.