It’s not surprising that a world-class university and the uber-powerful Agricultural lobby can combine to thoroughly crush the most marginalized and unrepresented sector of New York’s population – it’s also not surprising that no one is willing to speak up for us.
Abraham Lincoln said: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Empowered by 30,000 blissfully ignorant students, with a four-year memory and a six-figure future: Cornell University has led an overwhelmingly Progressive policy front to steamroller any resistance from the neighboring municipalities in a rural county of only 105,000.
Our CAFO run rural “government” – whose lead planner publicly stated that no one but farmers “deserved to live there” – helped create the County’s most recent “vision of the future”: in which the rural communities no longer exist.
With policy making that has closer ties to the Khmer Rouge than Martin Luther King, Jr. – Tompkins County is a college destination with the sort of moral compass that lands people a spot on American Greed.
What is the Secret Cornell?
Something that makes the College Admissions Scandal seem like throat-clearing at a political rally.
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It’s common for the lesser to be described in terms of the greater. We are the oppressed of Cornell.
Like so many lands around a dictator’s domain; we are seen as a territory to annex and remake: a colonial outpost to settle, a resource to use, and a place to dump all the unwanted and unsupportable. And, like so often in history – an existing people to dispose of. It’s a story of arrogance and oppression that is both untold and unreported.
Cornell is remolding Tompkins County: and some of us are just excess material.