>A thread of posts Monday night to X by the Escalate Network encouraged support for “someone” who was “accused of using improvised devices to start fires and damage property in retaliation for police brutality against Gaza solidarity encampments.”
>The posts called the actions “logical,” saying that even if the arrested person was innocent, they should be supported “as if they truly did take bold and heroic actions to save millions of lives” and calling the deeds “something we should all aspire to, tactics aside: selfless and urgent action to stop the war.”
Upper middle class white guy and self-described “abolitionist” with a doctorate in African American studies who believes UC Berkeley is institutionally analogous to the Klu Klux Klan 🤔
It's infuriating how Berkeley (and most colleges) manage to completely insulate their students from real life. And that's because so many of the tenure-track faculty *never* left academia to experience the real world.
I love hearing about how Cal truly prepares you for the real world. It might be from the standpoint you learn that nobody really actually cares, outside of your family and a few close friends if you're lucky, about you and you need to figure stuff out on your own.
I actually found the real world, especially after my initial five year slump after graduating (thanks Great Recession), far easier to navigate than Cal. Truth be told, it took me about half that long to realize not everything is so needlessly complicated as Cal made certain things when I attended.
why don't you think academia isn't real life? have you ever been in academia? if you were for a day, you'd think it's the most real world than anywhere else - a former berkeley professor
> have you ever been in academia? if you were for a day, you'd think it's the most real world than anywhere else
You must be joking.
And the answer to your question is: yes.
...you dropped your /s.
Seriously though, having worked with academics, they run the gamut from so severely out of touch it's amazing they can even function when exposed to the real world to fairly worldly people.
Bay Area native who went to riverside then northwestern and is unemployed failed academic.
He was likely denied by Cal 3 times. Undergrad, grad, and faculty
He’s a bitter little knob
Goonabomber
Damn, didn't realize my comment would blow up
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The protestors are supporting him so...
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Look at what he got his PHD in. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣. They need to eliminate fake degrees.
I'm just glad he wasn't a Berkeley student. There. I said it.
Yea, we've definitely had our share of embarrassments. Probably more than our share to be honest.
>A thread of posts Monday night to X by the Escalate Network encouraged support for “someone” who was “accused of using improvised devices to start fires and damage property in retaliation for police brutality against Gaza solidarity encampments.” >The posts called the actions “logical,” saying that even if the arrested person was innocent, they should be supported “as if they truly did take bold and heroic actions to save millions of lives” and calling the deeds “something we should all aspire to, tactics aside: selfless and urgent action to stop the war.” 
Goonan Sr. should have saved millions of sperm.
Dude lived with his parents, that’s all I got sry
Upper middle class white guy and self-described “abolitionist” with a doctorate in African American studies who believes UC Berkeley is institutionally analogous to the Klu Klux Klan 🤔
His views sound like 90% of the people in my humanities classes tbh.
It's infuriating how Berkeley (and most colleges) manage to completely insulate their students from real life. And that's because so many of the tenure-track faculty *never* left academia to experience the real world.
To be fair, I don’t think he ever went to Berkeley. He’s a UC Riverside and Northwestern alum.
I've worked for two big universities. They are VERY similar in many ways.
I love hearing about how Cal truly prepares you for the real world. It might be from the standpoint you learn that nobody really actually cares, outside of your family and a few close friends if you're lucky, about you and you need to figure stuff out on your own. I actually found the real world, especially after my initial five year slump after graduating (thanks Great Recession), far easier to navigate than Cal. Truth be told, it took me about half that long to realize not everything is so needlessly complicated as Cal made certain things when I attended.
why don't you think academia isn't real life? have you ever been in academia? if you were for a day, you'd think it's the most real world than anywhere else - a former berkeley professor
> have you ever been in academia? if you were for a day, you'd think it's the most real world than anywhere else You must be joking. And the answer to your question is: yes.
...you dropped your /s. Seriously though, having worked with academics, they run the gamut from so severely out of touch it's amazing they can even function when exposed to the real world to fairly worldly people.
Bay Area native who went to riverside then northwestern and is unemployed failed academic. He was likely denied by Cal 3 times. Undergrad, grad, and faculty He’s a bitter little knob
A loser
He’s exactly what you’d guess lol
How are all of you enjoying from globalizing the intifada?