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This... is not the right take
by pboutros 10y ago
This... is not the right take
- uberBoober 10y agoWhy is your opinion more valid than mine?
- keepper 10y agoBecause your s/n is uberBoober and you registered 2 minutes ago, trying to obscure who you really are? If your opinion is so valid, have the courage to back it up. ( sorry for the off-topic comment )
- uberBoober 10y agoExpressing true opinions which, may not be well received by the community, especially those who have a penchant to lash out when confronted with reality contrary to their beliefs, is the reason we have anonymity. Case in point the post went from +4 to -4 in a matter of minutes. Downvotes yum yum yum. Still no one bothered to put forth an answer to the question, nor refute any statement.
- anigbrowl 10y agoYour opinion isn't truthful. Your implicit claim is that by educating foreigners we enable despotism to work better, an argument which is self-evidently specious in an era of widely accessible information. .
- randomguy23 10y agolol - 'self-evidently specious'? You mean that only good and altruistic people want to learn? That is self-evidently false.
- swasheck 10y agopboutros didn't make any claims about the validity of your opinion, only about its correctness.
- uberBoober 10y agoOk, but my statement is correct. The US has educated despots and their cabinets for decades. Would you enjoy an articulated list?
- chickenfries 10y agoI don't follow the logic in your original statement. You don't think MIT is motivated by the fact that they have students and professors from these countries, who have nothing to do with autocrats? Surely you're not accusing every Iranian MIT professor of being a despot.
- jcranmer 10y agoIf you look at rankings of world universities, the US has the plurality of top universities. Why should it be surprising that plutocrats and autocrats should seek to send their children to top universities?
- swasheck 10y agocertainly they have educated despots, just as many foreign banks possible house deposited illicit funds from many US-born people. academia has no moral obligation to government and any suggestion i can think of that affirms that it should are irresponsible.