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Comment by imgabe

5 days ago

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>You are simply defining intellectual as “whatever universities do and say

Definition of anti-intellectual

"a person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods" from oxford

Intellectual

"of or relating to the intellect or its use", "given to study, reflection, and speculation", and ": engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect" from MW.

I didn't define anything. If I said the administration was anti-education would that be better?

  • > the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among faculty, staff, and leadership.

    > the University must adopt and implement merit-based admissions policies and cease all preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate program individually, each of its professional schools, and other programs.

    In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education? Is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?

    • >In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education?

      It's not. Calling universities and professors the enemy is. The government taking away funding because you want international students to adhere to an ideology is wrong.

      >is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?

      How do you rank the quality of scholarly work?

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Just want to note that I didn't downvote (I can't yet) or flag your comments. I don't think your comments should be flagged either.

Could you perhaps spell out your definition of anti-intellectual for us then?

> Current universities are openly anti intellectual.

  • The administration is saying “hire and promote faculty and admit students based on scholarly merit, not ideology and activism”. Universities are saying “no, we want to keep doing the ideology stuff”. That is anti-intellectual.

    • The people in the administration were not admitted to their universities based on merits, they paid to get in and they paid for their degree. This is especially true for POTUS who holds an entirely fake degree bought and paid for by his father.

    • No, that's a lie and you know it's a lie. The administration specifically demanded that Harvard must submit to viewpoint diversity audits, hiring faculty and admitting students as necessary to make sure that every department has a balance of viewpoints the government finds acceptable.

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    • The administration defines what ideology is and given the current administration claims it’s based on merit and given the nonsense they do economically, scientifically and militarily they are the ideological activists. Not to mention that they are clearly hired based on gender and skin color.

      RFK jr., really?