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The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges - The Daily Podcast (www.nytimes.com)
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Know thy educational enemy and his stupidity

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Good to hear what this moronic asshole has to say but god damn it was an infuriating interview with Barbaro not push back against this Idiocracy.

I mean absolutely infuriating that he didn't challenge something as simple as when he talks about poor communities, how left leaning ideas don't survive beyond the college, Barbaro didn't simply ask why does the economy and employment do so much better under a Democrat/progressive government.

ETA:

Oh and just fyi about the college he took over with DeSantis:

The increased enrollment also came with a decrease in overall grade point average and test scores, markers that historically had helped the school earn a national reputation as a top public liberal arts college.

His and the Republican version of meritocracy.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I just listened to this podcast. This guy sounds smart. He’s not on the same side of the fence as I am, but I wanted to give him a listen.

I do understand where he is coming from about certain policy decisions functioning well within the university incubator, but then not being able to scale. There certainly are policies that don’t live up to their hype and we absolutely should be performing studies and assessments on why these sometimes don’t scale. I don’t like wasting my tax dollars on ineffective policy as much as anyone else.

However, I think attacking these with a broad brush does more harm than good. There are policies that do work, given the right environment and right people. I think it was what, Portland? That recently did a UBI study and it showed positive results there. I don’t see UBI results being reproduced for say, the entire state of South Dakota. It’s completely different culture and resources.

We should continue studying for effectiveness and scale where it make sense to do so.

He also wants to undermine certain liberal policies so that conservative ideals can flourish on campuses. I think this is disingenuous. There are already universities with conservative ideology. Why must we force other universities to bend to something that is not their culture? And if they say “because you take government tax dollars and we say so” well, that’s not how the contracts were written for one and two, I think universities would have put a lot more thought into what funds they were willing to accept if those conditions had been written.

It’s a bit like the reverse of “regulatory capture.” You work with Princeton to build a billion dollar atom smasher to do some amazing physics work, then you come in 10 years later and add strings attached to their D.E.I. policy to keep their funding. Well, it’s not like Princeton is then going to go and demolish the building and say “take your funds and shove it!” I mean they could, but I could imagine the public blowback wouldn’t be worth it.

So now the govt is dictating policy that is better off being left at the professional and cultural level of the university. And that is quite a dangerous place to be in, both for liberals and conservatives. Where have the “keep the government’s hands out of my business” types gone?

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Oh they interviewed rufo?? Wow

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Everyone who attacks education should be flogged, maybe the taste of barbarity that they so crave will shock them back to some semblance of sanity.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Nothing new here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Student_opposition

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This the same dumbass that got all worked up over "CRT"?

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I have a "biblical" name but I can't imagine growing up named after the god you worship.

[–] courageousstep@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Is there a non-paywall link?