a short thread on minouche shafik and white supremacy on campus...
shafik was the director at lse when i did my masters and peter cvjetanovic, the poster boy for the 'unite the right' charlottesville white supremacist and anti-semitic rally was also doing his masters there

we wrote a petition to have him expelled from lse but we were told by lse leadership that they couldn't do that - bc 'free speech' but also bc they can't and don't do a background check on political views of applicants
full statement: thetab.com/uk/london/2018…

Had a conversation yesterday with my younger brother which low key blew my mind.
I was telling about how I was anxious about the future and planning work two years in advance was scary. He said he could relate because he's in a 3 year apprenticeship. I said that was different bc with academia/studies, it's structured so you don't have to think about next steps: they're planned for you. I never worried about the future when I was studying bc it was very clear to me at the time: Bachelors degree, then Masters, then work or PhD

Thread:
Most ppl know of the poem, "The White Man's Burden," the ultimate anthem for colonialism. But not everyone realises it was written by Kipling, author of the Jungle Book. And even fewer ppl know it was specifically written as an appeal to the US to colonise the Philippines When you google the "White Man's Burden," typically this Pears soap ad comes up. The message cleanliness = a gift of civilisation = whiteness. Pears did a bunch of ads on this premise. But the White Man on this ad isn't some rando, it's Admiral Dewey! The man who captured Manila