A linguistics course I proposed to teach at MIT on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine was censored and attacked by the university. My story is just one small window into the broader crisis and repression unfolding in higher education.
  • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The author of this is really twisting the story in his own favor. He leaves out the part where he launched public personal attacks against other faculty and students.

    His department did try to work with him so that he could teach his class (which was completely outside his field of expertise, and is therefore against the general policies). They wanted him to co-teach with someone with knowledge in the field, but at that point he had completely ostricisized himself and no one wanted to work with him.

    This is absolutely a situation where someone fucked around with a loaded gun, shot themselves in the foot and is now mad at everyone else because they didn’t help him shoot someone else.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    When I went to college one of my dorm neighbors was an engineer major and we were at uiuc. At one point we were talking about colleges we applied to and our choices and found out he got accepted to MIT. Im like. Why did you come here? They have a good engineering program and all but its still out of state for you and I mean. MIT! His response was. What if I change my major. He actually did change to pre-med.