Jacob T. Levy: We’ve spent a decade with conservatives and center-white-wingers saying comparing wokism on campus to the Cultural Revolution so it seems somehow inevitable that we’d end up with actual mandatory self-criticism sessions for left-wing students. nyunews.com/news/2024/05...

We’ve spent a decade with conservatives and center-white-wingers saying comparing wokism on campus to the Cultural Revolution so it seems somehow inevitable that we’d end up with actual mandatory self-criticism sessions for left-wing students. nyunews.com/news/2024/05...

Students arrested at Gould Plaza required to complete ‘dozens of writing assignments,’ faculty group saysnyunews.com NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete “dozens of writing assignment...

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Would it be better or worse to learn that reflection papers are a standard part of NYU’s explicitly restorative-justice student discipline process, and not something adopted just for protestors?

There's absolutely zero chance the students will use AI to write these papers. None.

Chatgpt, copy, paste.

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Finally, a good use scenario for AI.

are university students not considered adults in the States? they have to do like, detention? for being on the campus they pay to go to??

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Adults aren't considered adults by the establishment powers unless they are conservative and own property, as far as I can tell. I'm not American either, but I've been here a while. (This is somewhat just me being a bitter smart-ass but I think there's something there)

Every accusation is a confession.

Would it be better or worse to learn that reflection papers are a standard part of NYU’s explicitly restorative-justice student discipline process, and not something adopted just for protestors?

I'm... genuinely not sure.

Neither am I.

Is that true? I was wondering when I saw the assignment and the thought that it was actually an RJ exercise occurred to me and felt like a gut punch.

I think the point is this all sounds reasonable if you were dealing with someone who drunkenly graffitied a statue in the quad or something. To make them think about their actions. If this 'reflects their values' etc The point is when you do it in a political context it becomes very sinister.

I don’t know who to blame, the coverage of what the papers are supposed to be or the actual prompts for the papers, but it seems it exactly betrays the idea of restorative justice (and all writing, really) to dictate that the conclusion should be “how I was wrong.”

Alas, I think this is exactly what it appears to be... It’s the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party, as usual.

Restorative justice? Isn’t that just the sort of DEI wokeism the right is always trying to shut down? In any case I don’t see how that would be an appropriate response to a political protest.

So many universities have responded to the protests by using disciplinary procedures designed for very different contexts. It’s quite striking.

This is a bizarre kind of punishment for student protesters I never saw coming to be honest. We just gotta expect the most nutty and evil things now, don’t we?

Also seems inevitable that our Cultural Revolution would be outsourced to a "behavioral intervention management" company called "Symplicity"

Reeducation at Peterson Academy next

NYU Struggle Sessions™️

Red hat-guards.

This is what the subversive acrostic was invented for

Ideally coupled with sardonic over-affirmation in the text itself

This is the moment ChatGPT was created for.

I would not comply with this edict. Fuck them.

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Those supposed left wing students could rebel. Just saying.

Reeks of "re-education camps"

I would enjoy writing the exact opposite of what they wanted me to. This would be an invitation to expand my criticism and double down on it.

Just a chaser for that shot of fascism: "FSJP also criticized NYU’s use of Advocate — a higher education software created by the “behavioral intervention management” company Symplicity... which supplies student conduct programs... pleaded guilty in federal court on criminal hacking charges in 2014."

The prose it is purple today

This needs to be done in Maoist Standard English

I know most will just blow this off, but I hope one of them really gives them something to chew on.

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