THREAD: @Harvard is offering a class where elite students can learn from ex-military about using "counterinsurgency methods" from Iraq and Afghanistan to "clean up" Black and Brown communities in Massachusetts. (1) https://twitter.com/sh4keer/status/1352771845267746816

This is part of the hidden story about the complicity of elite universities in the horrors of US policing and immigration enforcement. (2)

Fancy professors, in conjunction with big corporations, have a cottage industry to transfer military tactics/surveillance/weapons made for colonial wars to more and more sophisticated forms of domestic enclosure. https://stoplapdspying.org/pt42-police-state-and-war-on-youth/ (3)

You should be scared every time you hear cops and military using words like "community policing," which elite academics use as a term of propaganda to make it seem like the purpose of police is to help ordinary people. That's not what police are for: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-punishment-bureaucracy (4)

One of the next waves is universities working with police unions to trick people into supporting billions of $$$ for "body cameras" for police and then working with companies like Palantir and Amazon to combine these with facial recognition and machine learning algorithms (5)

The great harms in our world aren't done by cartoon villains. It's the ICE agent enforcing an order to separate a child from her mom, the lawyer who wrote that order, and the professor who built the technology for the order to be possible.