"To support the training and legitimacy of their own on-campus police force during the 1960s and 1970s, university leaders increased police budgets and lobbied for expanded statutory authority. University leaders steadily increased budgets to outfit and support police officers."
"Biden’s stubborn malice and cruelty to the Palestinians is just one of many gruesome riddles presented to us by Western politicians and journalists. .. It would have been easy for Western leaders to choke off their impulse of unconditional solidarity with an extremist regime while also acknowledging the necessity of pursuing and bringing to justice those guilty of war crimes on 7 October..."
"Popular West-is-best accounts of totalitarianism continue to ignore the acute descriptions of Nazism (by Jawaharlal Nehru and Aimé Césaire, among other imperial subjects) as the radical ‘twin’ of Western imperialism; they shy away from exploring the obvious connection between the imperial slaughter of natives in the colonies and the genocidal terrors perpetrated against Jews inside Europe."
Lol ok a colleague just posted on the cursed list this piece about NYU instituting very troubling punishment for protesters with the sarcastic comment "something for USC to consider" and another colleague has replied with "good suggestion", missing the sarcasm. SIGH but also LOL
Serious question: when and in which contexts did calling people "individuals" emerge as a common practice, as a synonym for people? Or "an individual" for "a person"?
I ask because I'm noticing it in student writing, and I associate it with police-speak. I don't know if it's in some corners of social science or medicine too
@inquiline Oh that's fascinating. My inner cynic wants to see if the prevalence at all correlates with Citizens United v. FEC 😅 Police speak would be an even darker origin story.
@inquiline Among Canadian historians, there's a small (OK - 2 of us, so far as I know - but everyone's welcome!), though keen group who keep folders of custom painted vans. The best trace I've found to date isn't a photo but a description from a 1975 classified ad placed in one of the main Montreal newspapers (Firebird seats!!).
"The statewide median sales price for a previously owned single-family house surpassed $900,000 for the first time, a shocking figure that underscores just how unaffordable housing has become across the Golden State"
Aftermath of #Petrocultures2024 last week: colleagues are now sending emails urging the Academic Senate to take up the matter of #policing on campus. Because there was a SERIOUS police presence/perimeter. A number of attendees dropped out in protest of that alone... & I don't blame them one bit
I think it's gonna take a lot more than eloquent letters... And unf I don't think we should plan any more conferences for police state campuses, ever again
This the first week I have of unstructured time (still tons of work to do ofc) and while I am grateful to have made it I am so, so weary. Not sustainable.
Serious question: has anyone had a successful convo w a co-organizer where it's been pointed out to them where they're overstepping and overreaching, and had them take it to heart and stop doing it so much? Or is this baked-in ego/other forms of power relations and not worth trying? #VagueTooting