Thread by @profcarroll

Per media twitter seeing grad school sticker shock at columbia j school even with scholarships consider that the humanities are not subsidized by the federal gov like the hard sciences which are lavished with funding so grad students get paid to study from tax revenues.

People who think education should be cheap have probably never tried home schooling their own offspring.

Maybe it’s the austerity? I know I have skin in the game but even so the very notion of cheap education is about as neoliberal as it gets.

Imagine if a masters in molecular microbiology was sticker priced at market rates without government or institutional subsidy. It would be like buying an RV or a yacht.

If you haven’t yet priced an RV or yacht to escape Trump’s COVID fascist hellscape with your homeschooled offspring until vaccine then you aren’t nearly as neoliberal as you think you are.

Reporters gawking at tuition reveals how entrenched neoliberalism really is. It’s the austerity, stupid. That’s actually the hidden code inside of defund slogan. Entropy-inducing neoliberal austerity. It just affects j school and the business of journalism in a particular way.

Demand tax payer funded j school. Not cheap as shit garbage training on youtube funded by shitty ads.

Reporters: The internet is a cesspool. It is destroying everything.

Also reporters: J school is too expensive (without government subsidies). Just learn how to journalism online. It will be fine. It’s almost free.

Reporters literally said they had a visceral reaction to j school costs. They almost puked when they saw it cost a hundred grand for a masters (sticker price, no scholarship).

May I introduce you to all the neoliberalism and neofascism that is killing your vocation on purpose?

Every journalist costs as much as the production of an RV, or a yacht, or a super car. And every journalist will benefit a society more than a luxury vehicle. Deal with it.