Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Todayās fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say āhey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of peopleā or ābeing LGBT is a normal human variationā or āthe American civil war was fought over slaveryā or āhere are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to whatās happening now.ā
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style āinformation warfareā - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more ānormalā and common then they areā¦)
Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Todayās fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say āhey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of peopleā or ābeing LGBT is a normal human variationā or āthe American civil war was fought over slaveryā or āhere are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to whatās happening now.ā
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style āinformation warfareā - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more ānormalā and common then they areā¦)