mean-dauphin:nabokovsshadows:memehumor:SymbolicNeoliberalism Just so everybody knows, this interpret

mean-dauphin:nabokovsshadows:memehumor:SymbolicNeoliberalism Just so everybody knows, this interpretation of the Yale strike is from Fox News. What is actually happening is if a graduate WORKER must stop fasting for health reasons or otherwise collapses, they can start eating and another graduate worker can take their place. My graduate worker’s union just fought my own university tooth and nail to keep our benefits and make our lives more liveable. Graduate workers and students are paid poverty wages, when we often are supporting our own families while under the poverty line. Don’t let this shitty interpretation of a very real struggle going on in so many US universities color how you view union struggles in higher education. This is a good lesson in right-wing propaganda. Pretty much anytime you see folks fighting for legal rights and respectful treatment characterized as frivolous like it is here, you can be sure it’s being misrepresented to manipulate you into opposition. This particular tactic is meant to take advantages of people who don’t know about a particular issue by presenting it in as negative a light as possible, knowing that most folks will reflexively defend their original position on an issue rather than change it when presented with new information. -- source link

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