U of Alabama Egyptologist and Guggenheim Fellow, Sarah Parcak. The Twitter feeds of academics in the humanities and social sciences are the mother lode of anger, profanity, bitterness, and rage. Perpetual rage.
Link: https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307120328435474433
Thoroughly under appreciated swear word.
Curious why she used an asterisk for America in MAGA. You know libs and they're love of country. Seems odd.
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I'm about as big a fan of that word as, "foodie," by the way.
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Are you telling me that some of the 1.2 million+ are weird?
I’m flabbergasted.
Keep up the good work, white power.
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If you haven't picked up on the fact that there is a disproportionately large number of really odd people in academia, you're probably one of them.
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of psychopaths who prey on vulnerable people.
I actually wanted to be one growing up because I loved the West and liked the idea of freedom and independence in a career.
I mean where they intersect your life.
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How about that Beyonce symposium there with a fellow Gree Waver? Good stuff. Intelligent stuff. Stuff that is almost always produced by really, really smart people.
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There is a degree of this chip among many of my fellow teachers. They believe they aren't compensated enough based upon what they contribute and are envious of those in other fields who earn more. It's much more pronounced in academia, where folks who spent more than a decade working on various degrees feel they are owed more based upon all those credentials. Probably the wisest assessor of the situation was a socialist professor I once had. In addition to refusing to write letters of recommendation for any white guys wanting to go into the field because, as he told us, "Your chances of getting a tenure-track job are slim and none," he was also honest about how little he and his colleagues had to do. He was honest about how many actual hours of work they really had to do. He once stated, quite accurately, that you could fire a gun on the fourth floor of the building on a Friday, the level that housed all the social sciences offices, and you wouldn't hit a soul. If you have a university nearby, take a stroll through one at 1:00 on a Friday and you'll see what he meant. I've always asked: in what other profession do you have a person of equivalent rank and prestige who has three hours per week (if that) in which employees or customers alike can have real access to them?
scared to death about virtual learning? Some might actually have to work.
is being investigated by the feds for this.
The K-12 realm is more interesting and illuminating because fewer people expect the rank indoctrination there that they expect from goofy academics. I shared this with Baron a month ago, but check this out. It's precisely what I saw at my previous school: a group of social justice teachers who deliberately isolated LGBT students. They pull in kids on the periphery who have few friends and are outcasts and get them hopped up on this stuff and further estrange them from their peers. It becomes cult-like and the kids begin using the bizarre lingo and trying to undermine teachers who are either "unenlightened" or resistant to the cause. At my previous school, this group of teachers would herd the "LGBT" students into their rooms at lunch. Some were undoubtedly just dumb and clueless and didn't realize the damage they were doing. Others probably did understand how they were marginalizing and stigmatizing these kids even more, but, in a twisted way, that's precisely what they want.
The original video was pulled down, undoubtedly by the school district because it revealed a truth, which is dangerous in public education. The clips are contained within this show:
Trump's a dictator who has taken away rights!
He's a curious sort of dictator, allowing an opponent on the ballot, and generally deferring more to the other branches than recent presidents, but, nevertheless, a dictator.
Link: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1305657196873744385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305657196873744385%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampusreform.org%2F%3FID%3D15734
Die all Trumpers!
In fairness, I could picture her summoning up a sifficient hex to bring some of this about.
Link: https://twitter.com/grayAmerican1/status/1307023821002727424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1307023821002727424%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecollegefix.com%2Fprof-suspended-for-allegedly-wishing-death-upon-trump-supp