should I apply to work at University if Austin and if so in what field
I was going to correct that to “University of Austin” but given the nature of the thing “if” seems a whole lot closer to the mark
I initially assumed history but then I thought, why limit myself, nobody else is
I would like to teach engineering. I’m willing to say 2+2=4 if that’s what it takes
I have a lot of opinions on things and I am willing to be paid but I also have a job already, so I think I’m well placed all the way around
there’s an opening on the board now. Why not me? I have a pretty good scowl, people tell me. I could scowl and say things like “this is not some joke, this is a real university”
to be clear to my current employer, when I say “apply to work at University of/if Austin”, I mean sign up to receive emails asking for money. That’s all anybody means by it, I’m not double-dipping
people are saying “forbidden subjects” only. Other than CRT, though, “forbidden” seems heavily context-dependent. Like if it were a roomful of Quillette writers maybe “chronology” or “fact checking” but a LOT of other people already know about these things
all in all it would be helpful if they could advertise actual jobs so we know what we’re working with here
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Anyway, apparently she's taken it upon herself to make some things up about me. I'm not the first she's done this to (see images 2-4), and I don't know what she imagines the point is, but here you are.
Also, there's plenty of space in my Irish Studies class, coming in January!
I don't know if it's funnier that celebademics and grandees bit at a "campus free speech" scam *by someone known for trying to get profs fired for speech*,
or that they couldn't even stick it for two weeks,
or that Haidt and Gladwell are "sending" people to a nonexistent campus
Maybe it's just my rationality talking, but if the Board of Advisors wasn't supposed to endorse the University of Austin's claims... then why are they leaving?
Anyway I love that Steven Pinker, who plainly signed onto this without looking into it, taught them about the importance of critical thinking. He taught me about not fabricating sources the exact same way
I guess this is what it's like to be cancelled in the back
Anyway, I don't think anyone watching excuses be made for kids shooting protestors (or neo-Nazis driving into them, or whatever it'll be next time) gets to wonder how violence becomes normal in domestic political life. For a lot of people it seems to be perfectly normal already.
This is to say nothing of vigilantes at the border, or Jan 6, or attacks on statehouses.
Reading a lot of fairly mainstream right-wing or pseudo-centrist commentators and the audience they cater to, you could easily forget that Kyle Rittenhouse killed anybody, or that the lives he took were human.
I don't think there's any coming back from this kind of thinking.
"thinking that someone who killed protestors maybe dehumanized protestors -- ha, classic projection"
"wow so now a guy who took an assault rifle to protests and killed people must be *guilty*, huh. sounds like you need to get your story straight"
To get through grad school, particularly unfunded, takes a huge personal commitment. It also puts you in a position where anything that looks like security is remarkable. And success means a job you likely can’t leave for another of the same kind.
Don’t think for one second that university administrators don’t know, and bank on, this.
There’s a LOT about the job I love and wouldn’t have elsewhere. And I identify as a historian so strongly that without some way to make a living at it, leaving doesn’t appeal. But I often wonder what it would be like to work in a sector where moving was a realistic possibility.