sidereal@sidereal@kolektiva.social
Expectation: Pursuit of knowledge, cultivation & perfection of human beings.
Reality: Workers creepin on students, the admins constantly betraying rather than supporting student activists, no one cares about research except to publish more to make their career look good.
My entire life until I was in college, I figured I would go to grad school and become a professor.
But professors (with a few exceptions) are some of the most disappointing and small minded people I've ever met.
sidereal@sidereal@kolektiva.social
If these campuses had been supporting their student activists with regards to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, they would have a strong core of people ready to fight American fascism right now.
Unfortunately, the adults who those activists should have been able to rely on for advice and support decided to betray them & support a genocide.
Now that fascism is coming for the profs jobs, there are no activists to defend them. The profs needed the activists more than vice versa.