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Corruption in Education🧵
-Professor who said police are "systemically racist" is fired for faking data
-The Journal "Nature" is caught publishing articles which fit narratives editors liked
-Department of Education investigates @realchrisrufo for not using "correct" pronouns
Corruption in Education🧵
-Professor who said police are "systemically racist" is fired for faking data
-The Journal "Nature" is caught publishing articles which fit narratives editors liked
-Department of Education investigates @realchrisrufo for not using "correct" pronouns
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The corruption of America's education system begins in the Universities.
In the 1960's Leftist radicals got an idea from communist Antonio Gramsci which said taking over a society requires taking over the culture and establishing something Gramsci called "Cultural Hegemony"
The corruption of America's education system begins in the Universities.
In the 1960's Leftist radicals got an idea from communist Antonio Gramsci which said taking over a society requires taking over the culture and establishing something Gramsci called "Cultural Hegemony"
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Cultural Hegemony says that to get and keep power you must be backed up by a culture that agrees with what you're doing. You need your ideology, value system to be baked into the songs, stories, art, of your society so your views are constantly reinforced by the culture.
Cultural Hegemony says that to get and keep power you must be backed up by a culture that agrees with what you're doing. You need your ideology, value system to be baked into the songs, stories, art, of your society so your views are constantly reinforced by the culture.
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So, with idea in mind, the Radiacl leftists of the 1960's set their eyes on taking over and controlling all the institutions of culture in America, especially Universities.
Leftist Education Scholar Isaac Gottesman explicitly states that this is what happened👇
So, with idea in mind, the Radiacl leftists of the 1960's set their eyes on taking over and controlling all the institutions of culture in America, especially Universities.
Leftist Education Scholar Isaac Gottesman explicitly states that this is what happened👇
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So the Leftist radicals went into universities with the very specific goal of using the Universities as a vehicle for ideological warfare.
All our cultural institutions relating to justice, truth, art, beauty, and commerce are staffed with people trained at universities.
So the Leftist radicals went into universities with the very specific goal of using the Universities as a vehicle for ideological warfare.
All our cultural institutions relating to justice, truth, art, beauty, and commerce are staffed with people trained at universities.
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Because Universities are supposed to use objective criteria to select the very best ideas to teach their students, and be the place where our most capable and talented thinker reside, Universities have tremendous amount of social prestige, influence, clout and credibility.
Because Universities are supposed to use objective criteria to select the very best ideas to teach their students, and be the place where our most capable and talented thinker reside, Universities have tremendous amount of social prestige, influence, clout and credibility.
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As a result idea that comes out of a University, or is published in an academic Journal run by a University, automatically gets "the benefit of the doubt" and is treated as a smart, serious, excellent, well thought out idea.
However, we need to note something here...
As a result idea that comes out of a University, or is published in an academic Journal run by a University, automatically gets "the benefit of the doubt" and is treated as a smart, serious, excellent, well thought out idea.
However, we need to note something here...
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All the social capital Universities have in the form of clout, prestige, influence, importance, deference, and credibility, is capital that was gained by universities when they were making discoveries and judging ideas on the basis of standards that were applied neutrally...
All the social capital Universities have in the form of clout, prestige, influence, importance, deference, and credibility, is capital that was gained by universities when they were making discoveries and judging ideas on the basis of standards that were applied neutrally...
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That is, when Universities were not putting a political "thumb on the scale" and instead applied standards of truth to everything using objective criteria, they make a great many scientific discoveries.
When they do this in art the produce tremendous painters and musicians...
That is, when Universities were not putting a political "thumb on the scale" and instead applied standards of truth to everything using objective criteria, they make a great many scientific discoveries.
When they do this in art the produce tremendous painters and musicians...
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The problem is leftist radicals want to do away with the neutral standards, and instead make their own leftist political ideology one of the standards for getting a degree, becoming a professor, or having your work published.
And, unfortunately, the radicals are succeeding.
The problem is leftist radicals want to do away with the neutral standards, and instead make their own leftist political ideology one of the standards for getting a degree, becoming a professor, or having your work published.
And, unfortunately, the radicals are succeeding.
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The Universities produce exceptional work in everything, but only when there is a very high objective standard of quality that is applied equally to everything.
If someone puts a political thumb on the scale then good work gets ignored because it has the wrong politics...
The Universities produce exceptional work in everything, but only when there is a very high objective standard of quality that is applied equally to everything.
If someone puts a political thumb on the scale then good work gets ignored because it has the wrong politics...
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And bad work begins to get a pass because it has the correct politics.
This means that the very high standard which resulted in exceptional work, and the foundation on which the prestige, clout, influence, and reputation of the Universities rests is now compromised.
And bad work begins to get a pass because it has the correct politics.
This means that the very high standard which resulted in exceptional work, and the foundation on which the prestige, clout, influence, and reputation of the Universities rests is now compromised.
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And this is what has happened.
Henry Giroux, as he explains here, went and got over 100 radicals tenured as "a political intervention." This is nothing less then the corruption of the university system.
And this is what has happened.
Henry Giroux, as he explains here, went and got over 100 radicals tenured as "a political intervention." This is nothing less then the corruption of the university system.
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The result of this is that now Universities are putting their seal of approval on ideas, not because of their objective quality, but because they agree with the ideological leanings of the leftists who have worked their way into positions of power within universities.
The result of this is that now Universities are putting their seal of approval on ideas, not because of their objective quality, but because they agree with the ideological leanings of the leftists who have worked their way into positions of power within universities.
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This is an extraordinarily difficult problem to solve because universities only work when they are set up in very specific ways, and they are very very hard to set up, and very easy to mess up.
This is a problem that is very hard to solve and we need to work on it...now.
This is an extraordinarily difficult problem to solve because universities only work when they are set up in very specific ways, and they are very very hard to set up, and very easy to mess up.
This is a problem that is very hard to solve and we need to work on it...now.
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We can't just let the leftist have the universities, they have to much social and financial capital for us to allow that.
We can't just bulldoze them because we need educational institutions to train our docters, engineers, scientsts, etc
So this is a REALLY hard problem.
We can't just let the leftist have the universities, they have to much social and financial capital for us to allow that.
We can't just bulldoze them because we need educational institutions to train our docters, engineers, scientsts, etc
So this is a REALLY hard problem.
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