The "anti-intellectual attack" on higher ed will take years to undo
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Here’s what’s really behind the right-wing campaign on academic freedom.
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I have to be honest this is honestly terrifying rather than being funny. It brings back memory of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge and that regimes persecution of those perceived to be well-educated, from those who wore glasses to those who spoke foreign languages due them making an association with those things being a part of the Bourgeois.

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