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This kind of argument about schools is a classic sign of authoritarianism. It’s the opposite of how officials who value individual rights and free society should speak about education.
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So, academic freedom is not really a thing they’re into?
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You can probably remove “academic” from there too.
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They meant academic freedom for the Government, specifically. The Government must have academic freedom. As long as it’s run by the GOP.
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freedom isn’t the thing they’re into, it’s control
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Academics are free to say things the State agrees with.
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This is exactly how my high school years went. During a military dictatorship that disappeared you if your thoughts were impure.
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The hilarious (if you, like me, have a notably grim sense of humor) is that this is all in the name of “stopping socialism”, when purges of intellectuals, teachers, etc., is exactly what happened in Russia, China, Cambodia, et al, post-revolution.
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It’s demonstrably Soviet (including many parts of their legislation for schools).
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They know not what they do; their understanding of socialism is as an epithet. Their social war is based on their ideas being so weak that they can't withstand being exposed to other ideas.
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If we want to stop socialism we need to defund the military
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I love how the MAGAs now refer to them as "government schools." So as not to be hypocrites, I'm sure they don't use govt roads, govt bridges, govt sewers, or take off and land using govt air traffic controllers, or take shelter because of NWS tornado warnings.
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I think that when you are quoting from Xi Jinping, you should include the original Mandarin alongside the translation into English, just so the translation can be double checked.
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We have to resist naxiism now tjt it's embedded in the government like this.
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For the record, my lecture weee never the lecture of the state
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Rude
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Ceballos left so many wounds we’re still living with
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They can control what professors say even though they won’t fund those schools much at all?
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We are Borg - Florida’s leadership. There is no individual.