The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.
A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”
Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.
It's appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.
Indeed. The persistent hope of average Americans that some superhero will ride in from stage left and fix all of this for them is... something. It won't happen. You all need to work together on this. Everybody needs to act and fight.
TBH China's population is likely less than the official figure, but they could easily accommodate more. There are tons of empty apartment buildings everywhere, and most of the country is still empty. Most people don't intuitively grasp population density at scale but it's shocking how little space we all take up with good urbanism.
Btw, did the US buy the plans or strike some kind of deal regarding the Arrow?
The US (and everyone else, really) were already working on similar designs. I'm not an expert but I think they were all shelved; the UK ones certainly were, because they started on their own designs after considering buying the Arrow. The major loss was many Avro staff who went to the US. That's what I was referring to when I said the Americans gutted our program; we never fully recovered from that brain drain. We've maintained a pretty strong aerospace sector (the Canadarm being a famous example) but in the 50s we were world-class.
Well, yes, but no. The Arrow was a good plane but was already obsolete even during the design stage, because the role of interceptors was replaced by missiles. Avro engineers however could of course have been reassigned to something else.
cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca Posts 14Comments 2,015Joined 2 yr. ago
No they didn't. Millions of Americans already believed this and were waiting only for permission to externalize it.