National Far-Right authoritarians have succeeded in elevating a totalitarian with Vance.
JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, was just called a “fascist” by the fresh president of the American Association of University Professors.
In an August 8 speech, Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers University archaeologist whose studies “is a mixture of classic and cyber-based ethnography”, took issue , with Vance’s say that universities are the” Enemy” and are “dedicated to ‘ deception and lies, not to the truth.'”
Vance made the charges at the 2021 National Conservatism Conference, according to , Inside Higher Ed.  ,
The gained candidate also referred to universities as “very angry institutions” in his conversation, giving cred to some of the country’s most absurd ideas.
We must seriously and violently assault the institutions in this region if any of us want to do the things we want to do for our nation and for the people who live there, Vance said.
In his speech, Wolfson said Vance’s election marked a “tipping place” for the “future of American higher knowledge”.
British Far-Right authoritarians, with Vance, have succeeded in bringing a fascist who wants to “aggressively attack universities in this country” within striking reach of their aim, Wolfson claimed.
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More from Wolfson’s speech:
Vance’s defense of Hungarian tyrant Viktor Orbán’s arrest of state universities as” the closest conservatives have ever come to effectively dealing with leftwing supremacy of universities” and its condemnation of professors as” the foe” are unmistakable. They want to retake control of higher education in America and impose it upon the dark-money sponsors who are supporting him. They may, in fact, use fear and misconceptions to switch colleges and universities into what the Far Right has long claimed they are: intellectual indoctrination centers. …
The Project 2025 framework for a Trump-Vance administration offers a terrifying glimpse into an autocratic coming that would turn American colleges and universities into thought-control factories by stifling ideas, suppressing conversation, and destroying freedom, despite the range of the blueprint for a Trump-Vance presidency. Project 2025 would roll back decades of progress on access to higher education, reduce protections for LGBTQ+ students and sexual assault survivors, sell student loans, close product forgiveness, and, if we take its authors at their word, prohibit the Department of Education completely. We ca n’t afford to allow this to occur.
Wolfson ( pictured ) also chided conservative efforts to “ban” critical race theory and other “divisive concepts”, and to abolish campus DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — efforts.
Unfortunately, next year the AAUP in Vance’s house state of Ohio opposed efforts to establish “intellectual diversification” facilities at state universities. Colleges “are already open marketplaces of ideas where free inquiry is ongoing,” according to the local AAUP representative.
One Ohio State University professor claimed funding for the diversity centers was” not a great use of money and therefore not likely to be implemented well” despite the fact that it would, among other things, lead to more professor teaching positions.
According to his faculty page, Wolfson is co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center which purports to “explore the intersections between media, democracy, technology, policy, and social justice”.
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