How do you value a university that has no value for anyone else?
If you were to put all the responses of College authorities to issues that affect the rural community into categories — the largest category would be: “not answering.” In fact: in fifteen years of sending books, emails, and letters: I have only gotten one response:
Stating that the concept of rural people being deliberately marginalized and underserved comes from those who “lived in simpler times.”
The question of acting to stop rural poverty and marginalization is buffered with denial in local colleges. How different from the “inexcusable” and “unacceptable” labels that are pasted all over Tompkins County’s city-centric issues.
It’s revealing that Cornell’s “Rural Humanities” focuses on stories of LGBTQIA+ and Black lives – ignoring the plight of the county’s rural residents and reinforcing their tacit approval of “college friendly/rural repressive” policies.
When progressives are confronted by difficult questions and unwelcome answers: they always run home to doctrine.
So what happens when a disproportionate number of men die from COVID-19?
The County Health Department removes that gender data from the COVID demographics – only race and ethnicity are allowed to remain.
An interesting choice for medical reporting – and for a college with a medical school.
In Tompkins County; “overarching” policies have progressed to all-controlling ones — and only doctrinal “fact gathering” is allowed.
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I received a notice of some AI book writing opportunity — I showed it to my copy machine. Our future of combining AI and self-worth will result in a flood of books from people who can’t distinguish between self-expression and communication. AI is a “lossy” technology: and when you want to remove the clutter and conflict from AI-Human interaction – what [or who] will you remove? That’s not our future? Who told you that? The same people who told you climate change was a fable?
What does this have to do with my post? Conformity and authority are creeping into everything.