Bonus: Inside Higher Ed
We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and student organizing, and the foreign influence over university operations.
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The documentary The Lobby is about the Israeli government on college campuses in America. TrueAnon has a great episode about it.
just dont go to college jesus christ america
Columbia University (Chopped and Screwed Remix)
This guy must be HUGE
Thank you so much for the person who spoke to Will about this!! Really exceptionally insightful!!
35 mins in and my jaw fell thru the floor. Fuck
He sounds like a Harkonnen, Im not surprised
loved his honesty about going along to get along until you find your limit. Imagine your very access to healthcare and pussy depended on engaging in the type of shit he described.
Wonderful episode. Great work to make this interview happen and thanks to that person for speaking out. ❤️
Not having a clear, public definition of “antisemitism” is the point. So much easier to smear your opponents and not be outright lying.
Double Speak
best ep in a long time, great interview. bless that man
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Great episode
can’t decide whether it’s more hilarious or more terrifying that this guy’s voice has to be distorted like he’s talking about extrajudicial executions he carried out for the cia meanwhile he’s talking about a university PR job ….
lol difference in kind, or degree? How does this world keep managing to get worse by the day?
Glad to hear that Elizabeth Holmes landed on her feet; the ethics lessons of Theranos were a good prep for the field of educational (corporate) communications....
Someone get this guy a Ferrari cake
It's worse than I thought. All our universities have been infiltrated by Skynet.
dam dude, I didn't know Dril had worked in higher education
Fetterman was a university admin?
Ain’t no way Jon from Delocated was a university administrator.
I had the same re-ac / talk about things that make you go pfft
Welcome to Mad-town
i teach in higher ed and i keep getting the missives that this poor bastard had to create. the comments on how much antisemitism there is going on always jump out to me because i’m like “where? what?” i’m there every day. the everything is antisemitic thing just triggers me every time and reveals the project every time. i’ve been squabbling since the arrest crackdown (i work at one of them) and no one even bothers to reply. props to him for walking away. i haven’t worked up the gumption to tell them to screw.
So if he's being anonymous, don't you think it's a good idea to REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO THE SCHOOL HE WAS AT NO MATTER HOW SUBTLE?
No
They got the monster voice on this one
I wish Satan from Smiling Friends all the best in his future.
Really sounds like he turned his life around since Charlie’s visit!
This is the best interview with Monstroso from Venture Brothers I've ever heard.
This interview was incredible, especially the detailed look into how antisemitism is actually defined or not at these institutions.
The guest sounds like Eric Wareheim
Please transcribe this so I can share it with senior colleagues whose monocles will drop directly into their soup if I ask them to listen to a "podcast," much less CTH, lol.
commenting here to second this notion, i write for my school's SJP newsletter and would like to cite it out of podcast form
I think a recent episode of Radio War Nerd partners well with this in the context of how university endowments/investments work: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103630548?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_source=android
Thanks to Chapo and your guest. I think we all knew about this, but we needed to hear it from someone who’s been on the inside. As Will said, not surprising but jaw-dropping.
OK...So if criticizing the government of Israel is 'antisemitic' would it also stand to reason that if I, for example, criticize the policies of PM Narendra Modi and the BJP in India, does this make me Hinduphobic? Or if I criticize Pres. Xi Xinping am I anti-Chinese? Not only is this broad definition of antisemitism racist against Palestinians -- and insulting to anti-zionist Jews -- but soon all governments will be 'protected' from dissent and we will reductively declare what each peoples' political beliefs should be (we declare that all Jews must be zionists, for example).
no you dont get it, israel is a very special boy you see
Excellent interview; pairs well with Michael Parenti's analysis in Democracy for the Few.
Great interview
I'll keep asking: if protesting Israeli war crimes makes you Hamas, then what does that make Netanyahu after all those millions of dollars he bribed Hamas with?
i know this is rhetorical but i would also ask that you come up with a killer punchline
With the deep voice modulation it’s funny to imagine this is Satan himself speaking as to how *even he* could no longer stomach the moral bankruptcy of the university communications apparatus
Wait, it wasn’t Satan? A lesser demon, surely
This guy has a weird voice
I’m not gonna lie I started laughing when the voice modulator was set to emperor Xerxes in 300’s voice
DJ DOUGPOUND IN THE MIX
Pretty sure this guy sang #1 by animal collective
The voice modulator was set to ‘Bibi’
This was disheartening but really fantastic content, thanks so much to guest
Incredible interview with Dril
The episode topics recently have been fantastic. Ty
Peak Chapo. Amazing interview.
I'ma hafta download this a pitch it up.
The voice modification is unbearable, can someone make a transcript?
It’s fine. Just pretend it’s Ron Perlman.
Excellent episode really great to hear this person's perspective. Very clarifying. I was listening to this on the drive in to work and I got in early. The intensity must have made me speed a bit!
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Chris just applied the filter that he used to Will’s voice from the early eps (In all seriousness this is fantastic to hear this perspective, thanks guys for your work)
Doing some good , Chapo. Now’s your time to use all your resources and caché and influence to actually fight the fight, not just comment ironically. The pro-genocide lobby must have its daily quota of dismembered infants. Fight like there’s no tomorrow. Because there ain’t if you don’t.
I feel this in my bones. From organising for Bernie to the last couple of years feels like a different chapo. I hope they can impress me again. *says the privileged white boy, not organising or helping in anyway*
I get that there’s giant universities that have these octopus ties to the evil imperial structures of our empire, but are there examples of random backwoods ass hippy or religious schools that are like “you know what, we don’t need to have ties with the MIC or genocidal countries”… hell, is there an example of ANY org in the U.S. that after a credible genocide claim was brought to the ICJ, any org used that even as an excuse to cut an already tenuous tie? “jeeze, we’re suspending our ties to tel aviv - that’s a pretty serious line”. More power to anyone speaking up or protesting, trying to assign any political cost at all to support of these monstrous entities
I think many of these big investment funds the universities have their wealth tied up in are packaged in such a way that they all have a mix of the biggest companies in the stock market. State pension funds, 401k’s, university endowments are buying packages like “Blackrock Long Term Mix” and “Vanguard S&P Index” (names are made up but that’s the gist) that lean heavily on some of the most evil shit because it pays off so well. Pushing regular people into the stock market via retirement funds brought a lot more investment funds to these quasi-State companies in the military industrial complex. These demands for divestment are an attack on that power structure itself and a lot of entities don’t have the stomach for it. That’s why this movement is so important, I think.
That person really needs to cut down on their cigarette smoking
Or become a Tom waits backup singer
Great fucking work. Also, I am in a room with no lights and the first time s/he spoke the voice distortion startled the fuck out of me
Excellent work, thanks Chapo. Lot of good info in this one.
Is this Chapo doing actual (non-ironic) journalism?
Something to sink our teeth into.
He was told to say "Hamas" instead of Palestine. In any context. There it is, folks. Deliberate dehumanisation.
9-11 happened on the second day of my sophmore college year. The collective response to it made me flee the coming complicity of the ivory towers for a hippie life.
The need for anonymity speaks volumes. What a fucked up country.
Voice changer! It’s real!
Radio War Nerd featuring Jacob Bacharach was a real banger, similar topic.
Link above, just saw your comment.
Gather round the trough hogs. Slop is flowing
Getting vibes of a TrueAnon April Fool's ep.
More slop!!!!
I’m sure this will be a banger
Holy fuck the slop is flowing good tonight
Don’t forget to leave a diet Mountain Dew out for the slop fairy