A variety of pretty interesting thoughts in this Peter Beinart podcast (I skimmed transcript):
"among Jewish students who were involved in pro-#Palestine organizing, it is awakening a kind of much greater interest that they had in what it means to be Jewish"
"the more powerful they grow, the more the repression we will see... the US government at state & federal level will start to punish these universities even more severely"
"the organized American Jewish community will essentially abandon the liberalism of these university projects altogether essentially by starting to divest from them in terms of their dollars, and also by bringing in the force of people in government, especially authoritarian Republicans."
Contemporary university systems are part of neoliberal support of empire and if this causes them to fall, then that's good.
@richpuchalsky Maybe, but the universities being run by outright authoritarians will not actually be good. We're not that far away now, as the recent episodes reveal, however. Still it won't be good.
There are no good options remaining. The two main options are:
attempt to keep propping up an ever worse system, or
work towards what you actually want, even if it involves the current system failing.
When we're at the point of "we can't have campus protests because big money donors will leave and authoritarians will take over" I think it's time for 2) above.
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