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#USpol #Education
Dismantling of #DoE
That is all correct but just scratching the surface. This is no partisan fight anymore. This is an all-out assault on #democracy.
Destroying education for the masses again is the aim:
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406
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The #TrumpMuskDuumvirate is merely bringing to comletion #RonaldReagan's, #RichardNixon's, and #SpiroAgnew's brainchild 1) that #RonaldReagan jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in #California. 2)
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!["Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat." said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. "
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"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities."
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/197/112/223/445/584/original/05021d9155e9faea.png "\"Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat.\" said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy\" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. \"
1)
\"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities.\"
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/")
