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I have a friend that’s a CSU faculty member in science/engineering. The amount of ideological crap coming down the pipeline is shocking to him… and he’s a pret

I have a friend that’s a CSU faculty member in science/engineering. The amount of ideological crap coming down the pipeline is shocking to him… and he’s a pretty liberal guy. But he has a mortgage to pay and dealing with protesting students doesn’t really interest him. He became a professor because he liked teaching, not to become a target.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> he has a mortgage to pay and dealing with protesting students doesn’t really interest him The great irony being it's decisions like this that are undermining support for the University of California. We're not there yet. But a few more of these, and I could see an off-year proposition that dramatically cuts the UC budget.
- inglor_cz 5y ago
  And such proposition will be slammed as anti-intellectualism driven by stupid, jealous, greedy deplorables. Without asking whether there might be deeper reasons for such development.
  - YeBanKo 5y ago
    If it is done through a ballot measure, I think it might succeed or at least gain enough traction, that it will shed some lights on what UC spends money on. Every parent is thinking about education. Kids and universities come up all the time. If it’s on the ballot, it will be scrutinized, regardless how it is going to slammed.
socmovesus 5y ago
Social narratives change with the generations. Surely he can still teach people. What did everyone expect when all technical knowledge of humanity is on YouTube? That the next generation would pay for knowledge historically artificially restricted to those who were financially viable? The historical origins of college degrees are for rich aristocrats to buy secular degrees, even if they were meaningless, as the public lost faith in claims of divine intervention that gave kings and their heirs power. Secular gibberish the rubes could not falsify. Why does a supposedly secular grand narrative mean anything when there is no root node of the universe? Are facts of science untrue if they’re not discovered in an ivory tower administrated by helicopter parents? The social narrative to break is being labeled a farmer or senator for life. Why should rich first worlders be a afforded stability their nation takes from others? Tough luck, fellow Americans. But you aren’t the center of jack squat and it’s your own inventions and entitlement that brought you down. Just how it goes. Your narratives are not sacrosanct.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> he has a mortgage to pay and dealing with protesting students doesn’t really interest him The great irony being it's decisions like this that are undermining support for the University of California. We're not there yet. But a few more of these, and I could see an off-year proposition that dramatically cuts the UC budget.

inglor_cz 5y ago
And such proposition will be slammed as anti-intellectualism driven by stupid, jealous, greedy deplorables. Without asking whether there might be deeper reasons for such development.
- YeBanKo 5y ago
  If it is done through a ballot measure, I think it might succeed or at least gain enough traction, that it will shed some lights on what UC spends money on. Every parent is thinking about education. Kids and universities come up all the time. If it’s on the ballot, it will be scrutinized, regardless how it is going to slammed.

socmovesus 5y ago

Social narratives change with the generations. Surely he can still teach people. What did everyone expect when all technical knowledge of humanity is on YouTube? That the next generation would pay for knowledge historically artificially restricted to those who were financially viable? The historical origins of college degrees are for rich aristocrats to buy secular degrees, even if they were meaningless, as the public lost faith in claims of divine intervention that gave kings and their heirs power. Secular gibberish the rubes could not falsify. Why does a supposedly secular grand narrative mean anything when there is no root node of the universe? Are facts of science untrue if they’re not discovered in an ivory tower administrated by helicopter parents? The social narrative to break is being labeled a farmer or senator for life. Why should rich first worlders be a afforded stability their nation takes from others? Tough luck, fellow Americans. But you aren’t the center of jack squat and it’s your own inventions and entitlement that brought you down. Just how it goes. Your narratives are not sacrosanct.