Relevant to the US as well and the hard push for STEM education, particularly among the low-income & BIPoC they know they’ll never hire for anything, has been startling. They’re really making things plain.

And *we*, as a brainwashed society, buy into the humanities shaming. https://twitter.com/profsunnysingh/status/1284781431701602304

Last thing any of these fascist govts need or want are more historians documenting their evil, more writer and photographers capturing it, more social scientists studying the impact of their evil on society, etc

Just build more things we can use to exploit you, I guess

Is more*

Meanwhile schools across the country are using Covid-19 as an excuse to slash programs and departments and fire humanities professors.

Guess which ones are getting the slash first?

Cultural studies, gender studies...