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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The same is on the way in the US with how hard conservatives are fighting to keep graduates dumb and educated. Educated people don't lean towards wars.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s already happening in the U.S. Look at New College in Florida or Texas A&M rescinding an offer to a respected journalism professor because she’s a black woman and they feared conservative backlash. Congress is basically having show trials of college presidents and demanding ideological conformity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't read beyond the headline and thought this was about North American universities.

[–] twistypencil 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I'm going to go with, "anyone who Putin left in place is performatively patriotic at best".

[–] wolfeh 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] BreadstickNinja 1 points 7 months ago

Few things are more American than sending off massive bombs to be dropped on destitute brown people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The remark, which Putin repeated twice during his year-end news conference in December, shed light on a campaign he is waging that has received little attention outside wartime Russia: to imbue the country’s education system with patriotism, purge universities of Western influences, and quash any dissent among professors and students on campuses that are often hotbeds of political activism.

Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, leaders of Russian universities, which are overwhelmingly funded by the state, have zealously adopted the Kremlin’s intolerance of any dissent or self-organization, according to an extensive examination by The Washington Post of events on campuses across Russia, including interviews with students and professors both still in the country and in exile.

And the most fundamental precept of academic life — the freedom to think independently, to challenge conventional assumptions and pursue new, bold ideas — has been eroded by edicts that classrooms become echo chambers of the authoritarian nativism and historical distortions that Putin uses to justify his war and his will.

In October 2022, in a scene captured on video and posted on social media, dozens of students gathered in a courtyard to bid a tearful goodbye to Skopin, Smolny’s cherished philosophy professor who was fired for an “immoral act” — protesting Putin’s announcement of a partial military mobilization to replenish his depleted forces in Ukraine.

Skopin, who earned his PhD in France, and his cellmate, Kalmykov, were perfect examples of the type of academic that Russia aspired to attract from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s — enticed after studying abroad to bring knowledge home amid booming investment in higher education.

Another student, Yelizaveta Antonova, was supposed to get her bachelor’s degree in journalism just days after legendary Novaya Gazeta newspaper reporter Yelena Milashina was brutally beaten in Chechnya, the small Muslim-majority republic in southern Russia under the dictatorial rule of Ramzan Kadyrov.


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