I can't emphasize enough how anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals [EDIT, per the incisive and spot-on replies--> and corporate MBAs] who run major universities and who, in that role, sent armed-to-the-teeth goons after their own students, should not only not have their jobs as of the summer, they should be marched across campus and pelted with garbage. You betrayed a MASSIVE trust and, in an actual just society where half the country didn't celebrate violence and "iron-hand" policy prescriptions because it gibes with their bigotry, you would now be fucking unemployable.
GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your graduation ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.
Hi, do you run a major American university? Are you also predisposed to calling militarized cops to beat kids protesting war because you consider blunt-force violence a good solution to complex problems? I'm no placement expert but I would suggest maybe you should consider a different line of work, one that, say, you might be qualified for.
I suppose the realpolitik flipside is all those whinging white bouzh shitheads who call the cops on Black people having barbecues and birdwatching in parks have some big potential career prospects in college administration.
Her post has gone viral, which is, of course, how I'm sharing it, which also pretty likely means this young woman now has an actual horde of right-wing extra-super-MAN-men sending her threats and harassment to somehow impossibly prove how wrong she is, so it's probably worth pointing out that the fundamental essence of right-wing ideology is bad problem-solving skills and a constitutional, relentless and even violent commitment to enforcing shitty hierarchies that CREATE most problems in society.
"Conservative" responses to problems are provably bad, ineffectual and, thus, problem-INFLAMING because conservative ideology absolutely insists you do. not. fucking. meaningfully. address. or even RECOGNIZE. the. problem.
Empathy is innate. It is how we learn things from our first breaths. It has to be DEconditioned and one function of right-wing political thought for 50 years in this fucking country - from Limbaugh to Fox News to splintered micromedia like Rogan and Tate - has been to decondition empathy in as many people as possible by selling them tribalism and faux-aggrievement at people daring to step outside of the hierarchal "natural order." This is INTRINSIC to the ideology and why it became an actual fascist movement.
If you are one of those bootlicking "liberals" who blithely apes every dumb cursorily debunked talking point spoonfed to you to mitigate military crackdowns on unarmed people with the temerity to shout that there is a better way of doing things than that, I am so - SO - fucking tired of you.
Bold of old preening bourgeois authority figures to come out against students protesting war and genocide because there's such a great track record of people who advocate state violence to beat kids down and shut them up being cool, virtuous heroes remembered fondly for their courageous unnecessary oppression.
But hey, thanks to cops everywhere cosplaying as the fucking Air Cav for the unimpeachable heroism of keeping campuses safe from the terrorist menace of the adjunct history professors and sundry chairs of philosophy departments who work there.
OH and lest any credulous "civility"-lobby passersby feel the need to hop on the thread to try to delineate who in the American Conservative Influencer Caucus is and isn't a neo-Nazi, take it on the arches, pal, no rational human has time for your dissembling bullshit. We're a few thousand votes from unwinning World War II in this fucking country so move your sealioning ass down the pike to facebook.
I do dumb history jokes, occasionally pimp my angry left-ass rock songs, post tons of filthy invective at right-wing assholes. Introduced the verb "embitch" to the language, I believe, and, CW, use the c-word as if I am Scottish but am not. Vet my profanity-ridden ravings here: https://justmytoots.com/GrimmReality@beige.partyIf you are self-ascribed MAGA or a neo-Nazi, which are one thing, don't bother, you'll eventually rage-type some racist shit and get 86ed so let's save us all the time.