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MLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post) MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025    By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...

As so many academics maintain silence and, worse, collaborate, this brave refusal of a prestigous prize from Prof Liron Mor inspires. Bravo, Prof. Mor, you are a true comrade.

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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

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It fits. They've always had a raving reactionary on, e.g. Robert Tombs.

The remarkable thing is Trump would likely not deny this appellation

As I've said elsewhere, this was always the point of the false flag 'leftwing bias' story: an excuse to lurch further to the right under the pretext of correcting it.

paint me not surprised

"Leftwing bias"

haha, if only

This week I've been endorsed by Melanie 'Exterminate all of the Brutes' Phillips:

"How many young people have had their minds poisoned by this professor's nasty, hateful, "post-colonialist" rage?"

Answers on a postcard.

join le club mate

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Proud to say large number of my colleagues have called upon Cambridge to not obtain further injunctions aimed at curtailing protest on University premises or enforce current one; & to engage with conscientious students.

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oh one should be, not disagreeing at all.

it's probably a mix. We've known for some time know that both MAGA and Israel have botfarms in India, and paid influencers. Not necessary they used VPNs though they will now i imagine.

Particularly depressing to read about Helen Ghosh's behaviour towards a complaint made by a junior colleague and towards her. Power Women are such a big part of the problem of upholding the shitty patriarchal cultures of these institutions.

Charles Mills' The Racial Contract is such a brilliant book. Reading it for the third time, and I'm discovering new things. It's not an easy read at all but so rewarding when you mine each gleaming insight anew.

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**Hollow laugh**

Not long ago, when I raised a concern about a former college Fellow who is a regular visitor and a known sexual harasser, about whom others had also raised concerns, I was met with startling dismissiveness--until someone told the official concerned to respond properly and say the right things.

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Today in Tech Lords control everything you are allowed to see and know

Wild wild universe of topsy turvy morals

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

Just what is this regime--and its cheerleaders in Britain--so afraid of?

I find myself slightly ambivalent about this kind of meme though I agree with you and with it. They invariably pick on the rainbow. That makes me a tiny bit suspicious.

'... A government ready to repeat... the tragedy of Vietnam, a government which stands on the wrong side of every single battle for liberation taking place upon this globe.'

I happened to be reading Audre Lorde this morning. Makes one despair, forty years on.

"We are Black people living in a time when the consciousness of our intended slaughter is all around us. People of Color are increasingly expendable, our government's policy both here and abroad.' (1/2)

This itself, however, is a feature of contemporary white supremacy, including and especially its liberal wing: humming and hawing, both-sidesing, 'debating', 'pondering', 'complexity' trolling, 'nuance' mongering.