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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/114472091005592720">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:18:35 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a></section><article><p>This is an op-ed by a professor at West Point, describing the Trump/Hegseth crackdown on any sort of instruction that questions power ...</p><p>gift link: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.nAsH.FJBUeCyms015&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.nAsH.FJBUeCyms015&amp;smid=url-share</a></p><p>I highlighted this part here -- they just completely disbanded the sociology major</p><p>sociology and anthropology are really, really hated by Trump and his fellow travellers</p><p>they hate anything that seeks to examine the fabric of society</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5023153#notice-9846239">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-05-08T23:18:35+09:00" title="Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:18:35 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114472091005592720" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114472091005592720">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4595982">Screenshot of text reading:"Department heads ordered reviews of syllabuses and then demanded changes. West Point scrapped two history courses (“Topics in Gender History” and “Race, Ethnicity, Nation”) and an English course (“Power and Difference”). The sociology major was dissolved and a Black history project at the history department was disbanded. Department leaders forced professors to remove from their courses works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and other women and men of color.One of my supervisors ordered professors to get rid of readings on white supremacy in Western ethical theory and feminist approaches to ethics in “Philosophy and Ethical Reasoning,” a course I direct that is required for all cadets. A West Point student debate team was even told that it couldn’t take certain positions at a forthcoming competition.And these are just some of the episodes I am aware of."The words "the sociology major was dissolved" is highlit in blue</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/472/088/626/786/359/original/132bb9c2dc203c4e.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/472/088/626/786/359/original/132bb9c2dc203c4e.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4595983">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:18:35 JST Clive Thompson
This is an op-ed by a professor at West Point, describing the Trump/Hegseth crackdown on any sort of instruction that questions power ...
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.nAsH.FJBUeCyms015&smid=url-share
I highlighted this part here -- they just completely disbanded the sociology major
sociology and anthropology are really, really hated by Trump and his fellow travellers
they hate anything that seeks to examine the fabric of society
In conversationabout a month ago from saturation.socialpermalink
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