Re: <nettime> thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

On 23/Nov/15 08:45, David Mandl wrote:
> culpability of someone like Dick Cheney and the Iraq war.) And how will
> a hand-written apology change that? Why not focus on demands for actual,
> substantive change and see how that goes before trying to shame these
> people for lulz?

It's Amurika, so if the students can post a letter-writing
animation on Vine it will be deemed a massive strategic success ...
clicktivism-clacktivism ... demands for everything from a Gaussian
grade distribution skewed hard to A+ A A- to classroom-branding to
corporately-determined curricula...

On a side note, I would note that U or Colorado-Boulder -- a
medium-ranked state university -- has hardly managed to significantly
change their diversity numbers in 20 years. (13% in 1988 to 20%
in 2015, but these gains are for all 'minorities' including
Asian-American and hardly relate to population percentages overall;
while 'cash-cow foreign students have doubled from 4 - 8% in the last
5 years)...

Systemic problems seem to never be addressed once Empire is
established: the seeds of decline are embedded somewhere within the
wide-scale Imperial processes of the last 50 years...

so it goes.

JH

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