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First, a lot of people’s experience in grad school was of just naked, appalling psychological abuse — and a lot expectations about how faculty treat both students and each other is rooted in repeating that abuse. “If I don’t do it to them, how do I justify my own past?” — just like the comic.

Second, there’s a shift in the recent generation of new faculty. Treatment of students, treatment of adjuncts, the tenure gauntlet…. They are simply not putting up with this shit any more.

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