RE: AUT: RE: Universities under siege, etc...

[".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

: > the university.  The occassions when I've seen
: > exceptionality approached
: aggressively is in terms
: > of asserting the virtues of a meritocratic
: > machinery.

Thiago:

: There are really two different
: crticisms, of actually existing meritocracy
: and meritocracy as such.

: Meritocracy only reduces your capacity to
: fight. It is the problem.


Agreed.  I said it was a barrier to combativeness,
yes?  But, to the extent that it's so constitutive
of student and academic self-perceptions, I don't
think it's all that easy to budge.  I suspect it's
a commonplace of tutors -- at the mid-point
between being bestowed with the dubious benefits
of the meritocracy and conferring it as marks on
students -- to want to patrol the meritocracy ever
more strenuously.  That's where I've seen a
surprising manifestation of racism.

: saying. Besides, she said it in Chinese.
: The left at first couldn't even get a
: Chinese interpreter to find out what
: she was saying. No fucking kidding. But

This *is* funny, and sad.

: while that is appalling, her basic
: allegation, that SUPRA's opposition to
: full fee paying students was an
: opposition to foreign, and specifically
: Chinese students, was bullshit.

I'm not so sure that it is so far from the truth.
Well, at least in the sense of 'convenient
omission.'  True, I can't be sure of the character
of SUPRA's anti-fee campaign; but I do know that
to the extent that everyone in the Left knows (but
maybe do not admit) that anti-fee campaigns
resonated in some instances as racist campaigns,
the reluctance to address the intersection head-on
has had its predictable consequences.

Angela
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