Student loan forgiveness? For these people, or their students? C'mon, man.
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From the Washington Free Beacon:
‘I F'—ing hate this University’: Columbia Student Workers Union Erupts Over Anti-Semitism Task Force’s Reccomendation To Hire Middle East Professors Who Don’t Hate Israel
A Columbia spokesman told the Free Beacon university policies make clear that instructors "may not use their classrooms to advocate any political or social cause and must allow the free expression of opinions with civility, tolerance, and respect for ideas that differ from their own."
…. A SWC member, identified as "Ethan," wrote that "the thing about we can’t talking [sic] about Israel Palestine except in directly relevant classes is really bad. And I will never follow it."
He also complained that time, place, and manner rules aimed at ensuring protests do not disrupt classes are so restrictive that "any actually disruptive protest is impossible." [I believe that’s the point, Ethan — Ed]
Months after the anti-Semitism report was published, Johannah King-Slutzky, an SWC board member and doctoral student studying "theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens," warned the union’s group chat that its members should be cautious in what they text as "you wouldn’t want a bad faith reporter to see."
More from Miss/Mister/Whatever King-Slutzy (King Slut? Really?):
"Happily everyone already knows where I stand so I can say ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’ whenever I want but not everyone is so lucky," King-Slutzky wrote on March 2. She added that the "world would be a better place if Columbia did hate America, god willing."
I say we honor her request to God.
And here’s what she/it is teaching and being paid to do by Columbia:
Biography
My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination. Prior to joining Columbia, I worked as a political strategist for leftist and progressive causes and remain active in the higher education labor movement.
She gets a salary, funded by federal taxpayers and her students’ own loans to produce worthless drivel and indoctrinate future “educators” who will perpetuate the cycle; time to end that.
But wait, there’s more!
Another union member chimes in:
“I mean, I wake up every day and I look at my phone to see if I’ve gotten a text message telling me that one of my friends has been abducted. It’s really scary. And on top of the sort of personal relationships with our friends and comrades who are at risk, there’s the sense that also our careers are industry are at risk. So, and many other members of student workers of Columbia have spent many years dedicated to getting a PhD and being in academia and it’s increasingly starting to feel like academia might not exist for that much longer. So it’s feeling pretty bleak”
“Getting a PhD and being in academia” — that’s exactly the problem.
