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2023-12-08 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-08 05:13|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 When they stopped being institutions of higher learning and become a stepping stone to financial success*.

*There is nothing wrong with earning money - but that's not that universities are for.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-08 06:13|| 2023-12-08 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 When the wall came down, there should have been a hard reckoning in this country with the allies of communism. The universities should have been among the first institutions subject to accountability.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-08 07:21|| 2023-12-08 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 College presidents at Harvard, MIT, UPenn slammed for equating rising antisemitism with rare Islamophobia

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-08 09:22|| 2023-12-08 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called "white" incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.

Maybe that's a good thing. Spare the white kids from worthless liberal arts degrees that will saddle them with debt.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-12-08 12:19|| 2023-12-08 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Some start w/ Descartes and then trace his subsequent influence on Western thought.

Posted by Blackbeard Oppressor of the Munchkins8736 2023-12-08 18:51|| 2023-12-08 18:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Were Islamophobes wary of sharks,
They could say so in schools and in parks,
And terrified women
Could freely go swimming
With dogfish and fear only barks.
[toot toot]

Posted by Shons Grundy1855 2023-12-08 19:57|| 2023-12-08 19:57|| Front Page Top

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