The racist GOP VP candidate declares patriotic American professors "the enemy"

[RAB910]

The asshat actually quotes Richard Nixon

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. Sounds like he must've got bad grades

[Midnight Writer]

2. Authoritarians always attack the "intellectuals".

[RAB910]

3. Consider who has gone after professors in the past

the Nazis did it, communist Russia did it, communist China did it, North Korea did it...

[Dave Bowman]

7. Also the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Or the GOP in Florida.

[Celerity]

14. Holiday In Cambodia

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Label: Cherry Red – CHERRY 13
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM, Airplane Cover
Country: UK
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[Timeflyer]

10. Professor Ruth Ben Ghiat warns about this (she's been warning about tRump and rising authoritarianism since 2016).

"As the GOP transforms into an autocratic entity allied with foreign far-right parties and governments, it's worth understanding how Orbán and other illiberal leaders target universities. They don't only shut down intellectual freedom and change the content of learning to reinforce their ideological agendas, but also seek to remake higher education institutions into places that reward intolerance, conformism, and other values and behaviors authoritarians require..."

[Dave Bowman]

4. No, POS, you and your kind are the enemy.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. For context:

‘The Professors Are the Enemy’
Right-wing attacks on academic freedom have real repercussions.
THE REVIEW

By Henry Reichman
DECEMBER 14, 2021

“The professors are the enemy.” So said J.D. Vance, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, quoting Richard Nixon at last month’s National Conservatism Conference. The irony of this statement, coming from someone who has boasted of his position as scholar in residence at Ohio State University, is indisputable. But it is important to ask why it is that Vance, and others of his political ilk, appear so viscerally hostile to higher ed. One piece of the explanation comes from another Republican, George W. Bush, who, speaking of a quite different enemy, famously declared, “They hate our freedoms.”

{snip}

[arkielib]

6. He doesn't have that quite right.

I'm a proud patriotic American professor, and he is the enemy.

[RAB910]

8. You are serving your country educating the next generation, while Vance is filling people's hearts with hatred

and actively working to destroy our nation

[yardwork]

9. He's also quoting Mao, for what it's worth.

Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Which votes is he trying to win with that bs?

[SharonClark]

13. People without a formal education

who think they are smarter than everyone else and are jealous of people with a degree who seem happy.

AKA “not like them”.

[lindysalsagal]

15. Don't they already have those votes?