#University Politics

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It was a strange victory. Apparently the book which had generated the hostility which led to my firing had generated the support which forced my rehiring. I now had the relative safety of a tenured university professor, subject of course to the possibility of harassment at any time in the future. But something had happened to the meaning of "professor," to the meaning of "university," to the meaning of "teaching." The "professors" from the various "fields" who had been my judges, the judges of my book, had themselves never written books, nor had they read or understood mine. Standing in negative judgment of my teaching, they were in fear of the students who had no use for their "teaching." I began to understand more about the prevailing "Beta consciousness" of academics, dwarfed by a system of "education" which made them unfree, uncourageous, and radically uneducated. Nor could I live under the delusion that this phenomenon of soul-shrinkage was peculiar to this one university or to church-related universities or to those engaged in this particular field. Letters and conversations, especially with women, during and following the event, made it clear that this was a universal disease of "universities," which were microcosms reflecting the patriarchal world. I recognized that Boston College was not unusual. Perhaps, indeed, it lacked the more sophisticated means of oppression employed in the "great" universities, and there was even something like idealism that wove its way through the destruction and helped to make possible this absurd triumph.

It was the universalist quality of this personal "revelation" that was important. I began to understand more of the implications of the feminist insight that "the personal is political." The interconnections among the structures of oppression in a patriarchal society and the destructive dynamics which these structures generate in their victims became more and more visible. In other words, I understood more clearly the nature of the beast and the name of the demon: patriarchy.

-Mary Daly, The Church and the Second Sex

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

A resident physician at the University of Ottawa's faculty of medicine who was suspended over pro-Palestinian social media posts says he's been reinstated but has no plans to return to the institution. Dr. Yipeng Ge, 29, was sanctioned by the university last November after it got several complaints about a series of pro-Palestinian posts he'd made, ones that included references to "apartheid" and "settler colonialism." At the time of his suspension, Ge had been a fourth-year public health and preventive medicine resident and was completing a residency at the Public Health Agency of Canada. His research has focused on Indigenous health, anti-racism and decolonization.

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Stop saying shit like "United States of Israel". The idea that Israel is controlling the US/western politics is ridiculous and actively harmful. The US is a fully autonomous player allying with & funding genocide for it's own benefit; Israel & its military power in the Middle East is a useful extension of US empire first and foremost.

This rhetoric that US politics have somehow been co-opted by a foreign government does not only obfuscate the US's actual positioning as the most dominant colonial power in the world that literally has free reign to do whatever it wants in global politics, but also veers into "jews secretly control everything" anti-semitic conspiracy. Fuck the state of Israel. But also, the US's involvement here is not some kind of corruption of the American system. It is exactly what America is and has always been, don't get it twisted.

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[booasaur]

Terrified for the students in NY tonight.

Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.

The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.

It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:

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