Students, professors and administrators need a deeper understanding of how human disparities have developed, why they persist and how they continue to evolve over time. They also need to understand how the forces of social inequality inform the habits and practices of colleges and universities today. To understand inequality is to understand the modern world and the forces that created it. More to the point, understanding inequality is precondition to overcoming it: that is, to healing the wounds of the past, generating social solidarity and rebuilding a more just society.On the other hand, keep it up. I can keep sharp by pouncing on this sort of silliness.
2.12.20
THEY COULD JUST ASK THE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT.
Inside Higher Education have become all woke, all the time, and they don't even allow comments any more. A recent column attempts to inform us of the importance of "inequality studies." Just the thing for higher education in an age of retrenchment, more concentrations, more administrators. Seriously. "Students, professors and administrators need a deeper understanding of how human disparities have developed, why they persist and how they evolve over time." They could start here. They could extend their education. They might even consider heterodox perspectives. They might even figure out how their call for action is really an extended act of question-begging.
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Off-topic: You've probably already seen the story about the 2 women arrested for placing shunts across RR tracks:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/12/02/288120-n288120
....one of the harms stated as having been done was:
"On ten occasions, shunts were placed in areas that disrupt the crossing guards where the tracks cross streets, so vehicles could have tried to cross the tracks unaware of the oncoming train."
Don't understand...the shunt simulates a train occupying the section, and I would think that would cause the crossing gates to go down and stay down. Am I missing something?
The complaint is probably deliberately misleading about what the "shunt" is and what it is capable, and not capable of doing. Wouldn't want people getting any ideas, say, playing around with a broken-off piece of plywood strapping (another reason NOT to stand too close to a passing freight train) to see what it might do.
I do recall some scanner traffic once, Chicago and North Western dispatcher advising freight trains in the area of DeKalb that behavior consistent with local kids playing around with a piece of strapping was going on. That would ACTIVATE the crossing gates, and on the form of Automatic Train Control in use on Chicago and North Western (and still on Union Pacific) he was getting track lights, meaning any train in the vicinity would get the "Section Occupied" warning on the cab signal and have to reduce speed until the train control cleared up.
If somebody is messing about on the tracks with a train approaching at track speed, and that messing about causes the next block signal (this is on sections not protected by that kind of train control) to drop to red, the engineer is in a bad place, having to make every possible effort to stop short of passing the signal, and if it's a heavy train at a good speed, some nasty jack-knifing back in the consist is a real possibility.
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