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aflamethatneverdies · 1 year ago

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saw someone tell people to read decolonisation academia in a post with a bad take that i don't wish to engage with, but it's funny telling people to learn about decolonisation from universities. Academia ime so far has been 'vague gestures that this land belongs to so and so people' or adding a text or two in the course from some not white author. would not recommend learning decolonisation from academia.

#decolonisation may be violent #may require a systemic change #not something that the generally very white liberal academia is willing to grapple with yet ime #in fact it really feels like they have diluted the meaning of decolonisation #because you see it everywhere in contexts where it is not necessary or needed #also u cannot even have a thesis on Palestine in white western academia advisers tell you not to incase it is marked down #i'm sorry but academia does have an agenda they cannot go against they cannot publish truly radical texts #people lose jobs in academia and elsewhere for supporting Palestine as a cause #decolonisation from academia is a joke #at the end of the day academia supports the status quo #people will do well to remember that

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