I speak of justice only conceptually, entirely recognizing that, in practice, humans are incapable of materializing a reasonable semblance thereof. Every bloody job I've ever worked substantiated that view for me. And also that your statement about power is also inescapable.
Exemplary: Of the FT gigs I held, the academic was the freest in most ways. But when faculty-admin meetings transpired and academic issues were discussed, you could have the vast majority of the faculty (the guts of a university together w/ the students) leaning one way. But if the admin -- dean or dean under the pressure of Pres and Board of trustees wanted something else, screw faculty and students screw doing justice to the mission of higher ed that got the institution its accreditation. Justice my tuchis (to use the Yiddish in honor of Miliekowsky).
I know you're right in practice because Homo is hopeless, but my dad was an attorney and did a bunch of pro bono for immigrants so he injected me with the conceptual piece.
Many top universities in the USA, such as Columbia, Harvard, and Penn been threatened with the loss of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of annual federal support unless they banned all criticism of Israel and its policies, while individual students who publicly expressed such criticism in campus op-eds or demonstrations have been snatched off the streets by teams of masked federal agents, a development clearly reminiscent of the Stalinist Soviet Union and never previously seen in the USA’s national history, until now. Such loss of academic freedom will destroy the international influence of these institutions, which for generations have constituted one of the USA's greatest tools of global value through advanced education and friendship.
Some details above extracted from the Utz Review.
For any American President to go to these lengths to eliminate any criticism of Israel, a foreign state, must surely indicate that the decision making in such circumstances is being made under some form of serious pressure, so powerful in fact that it has forced an American President to give unlimited priority in all things to that same foreign state over his own country, to what is now apparent to all, the great disadvantage to his own country.
That is why the association of that same President with any act ...or person... in the past that could be seen as a matter able to be used to end his career / authority, should be immediately investigated like never before.
We all know to what I am referring.
No leader of any country should be allowed to display so outrageously their subservience to any foreign state, particularly one engaged in ethic cleansing, the stealing of land and the deaths of multi thousands of innocent people.
That is truly unacceptable as it would be for any country, but which is now so obvious happening by what we have seen actioned by the USA since January 20th.
There is no justice. There is only power and what you do with it.
I speak of justice only conceptually, entirely recognizing that, in practice, humans are incapable of materializing a reasonable semblance thereof. Every bloody job I've ever worked substantiated that view for me. And also that your statement about power is also inescapable.
Exemplary: Of the FT gigs I held, the academic was the freest in most ways. But when faculty-admin meetings transpired and academic issues were discussed, you could have the vast majority of the faculty (the guts of a university together w/ the students) leaning one way. But if the admin -- dean or dean under the pressure of Pres and Board of trustees wanted something else, screw faculty and students screw doing justice to the mission of higher ed that got the institution its accreditation. Justice my tuchis (to use the Yiddish in honor of Miliekowsky).
I know you're right in practice because Homo is hopeless, but my dad was an attorney and did a bunch of pro bono for immigrants so he injected me with the conceptual piece.
Note that last phrase "what you do with it".
An example of that power, Feral and Vin.
Many top universities in the USA, such as Columbia, Harvard, and Penn been threatened with the loss of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of annual federal support unless they banned all criticism of Israel and its policies, while individual students who publicly expressed such criticism in campus op-eds or demonstrations have been snatched off the streets by teams of masked federal agents, a development clearly reminiscent of the Stalinist Soviet Union and never previously seen in the USA’s national history, until now. Such loss of academic freedom will destroy the international influence of these institutions, which for generations have constituted one of the USA's greatest tools of global value through advanced education and friendship.
Some details above extracted from the Utz Review.
For any American President to go to these lengths to eliminate any criticism of Israel, a foreign state, must surely indicate that the decision making in such circumstances is being made under some form of serious pressure, so powerful in fact that it has forced an American President to give unlimited priority in all things to that same foreign state over his own country, to what is now apparent to all, the great disadvantage to his own country.
That is why the association of that same President with any act ...or person... in the past that could be seen as a matter able to be used to end his career / authority, should be immediately investigated like never before.
We all know to what I am referring.
No leader of any country should be allowed to display so outrageously their subservience to any foreign state, particularly one engaged in ethic cleansing, the stealing of land and the deaths of multi thousands of innocent people.
That is truly unacceptable as it would be for any country, but which is now so obvious happening by what we have seen actioned by the USA since January 20th.