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When I started my Phd in colonial and imperial history I thought writing dirge like this might change the world too.

Like Your Lord of Making Things up Said, this is just undergrad claim making with no facts behind it. Almost every sentence.

ie. "conservative” or “mainstream” academics—with their clear efforts to silence Palestinian voices" We have been subject to two years of pro Hamas ideology in the US, as have Europeans. Rwing media may not foreground the terrorist view you align with, but they do show the horrors of Gaza. How does that compare to media, well, anywhere, let alone in the Arab world. I would like to hear about Sudan, Nigeria, Phillipino slavery, you know, other parts of the world too?

Liberal academia has undermined the US, starting with Chomksy who should have stuck to linguistics, through Zinns ridiculous biases, another lord of the one footnote a chapter, Eric Williams laughable Slavery claims, Foucaults pedaphiliac idiocy, and then Kendis utter racist sophistry. (Oops. Forgot old Paolo!! Yes how dope to focus solely on repression. He has undone banking theory and left an empty bank of mindless aggrieved kids who dont learn but instead whine. As if Brazil can explain US or European education. Please...)

If conservatives are perhaps anti-education, its maybe better than pure lies from Leftist teachers who dont know they are Leninists, Saidists or Derridiots. I know this. I spent 40 years amidst it in liberal academia. 15 believing it studying; 25 realizing as a teacher, its pure lies.

Palestine is a mess because of Hamas, not liberal westerners, the only academics on earth who even care about that place, wherever it is. Please watch a Holocaust documentary.

Like all your gods above, C-. Try again.

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