Instead of book burning, it's book banning that modern fascists do. It's less ominous and less obvious.

Will? They've been for ages.

Only one thing has ever stopped fascists.

A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

We're so fucking cooked.

Sigh. Because the Dumbest Common Denominator thinks Sociology leads to Socialism.

Simple fix is to rename your science something dumb. Something like The School of Why We Clump Up Like Dat.

Speaking out does nothing because the people in power have called our bluff. They know that no matter what they do, how many laws they break, how many lies they tell, how many elections they cheat, the only backlash will be words. There’s no reason to stop what they are doing because there’s no teeth in the opposition, only tongues. They risk nothing and gain everything. American educational indoctrination’s greatest win was convincing people that resistance had to be peaceful to be just. The Founding Fathers tried words for about a decade before recognizing “words ain’t doing shit”. DM me when you all realize we’ve hit “words ain’t doing shit”.

It would be so easy to write this off as a "Florida" problem that the author knew we all might:

Lest readers assume this is some kind of Florida exceptionalism, it is far from it. State governments and university administrations in Texas, Indiana, North Carolina, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wyoming, Tennessee, North Dakota, Georgia, and likely other states too are currently involved in similar efforts. In New Hampshire, the House just passed a bill named after Charlie Kirk that bans the teaching of “critical theories or related practices that promote division, dialectical world-views, critical consciousness or anti-constitutional indoctrination.”

Outlawing sociology is just outlawing statistics. These people need to be delt with, and quickly. Remove them from every position of authority asap.

Fahrenheit 451

This is sad. There’s not going to be those factory jobs for the uneducated either.

I was wondering how hoping until age verification gets used to block info on slavery and lgbtq but it is not going to be long at all.

They pretty much already are. I remember my dad saying in his village school they were being prepared for factories and farms. Our Day Out, anyone?

you mistake truth for solution.

this was known by activists way before the 60's amirite

the ideology we're opposing - held in your example by the dean and the vice chancellor (authoritarianist roles held by petty people) - is one of reductivism & revisionism. always.

lots of known knowledge was to be wiped in Nazi germany. this is why there were bookburnings; today here are digital censoring tools of internet archive et al vaster than the bookburnings.

ofcourse the truth doesn't crush that oppression then as now. breaking two things do: bystander apathy of those around you & learned helplessness inside you.

edit: your post's emotional plea to urgency in the reader can be an example of a intending to break bystander apathy, but i find it falls short as learned helplessness...

Schools are already being completely destroyed by AI. Our entire educational system is going to need a ground-up rebuild to deal with this issue and we haven’t even figured out a plan for it yet!

Right now, teachers are essentially stuck fending for themselves against children armed with trillions of dollars in VC funding. It’s one of the most lopsided battles in human history. It’s like this scene from Letters from Iwo Jima:

If this isn’t authoritarianism in higher education, I don’t know what is.

A little slow off the mark.

I was very confused at first, because I read Scientology

Become? They always have been. This is just different propaganda than the kind people have grown used to.