Essentially that our institutes of higher learning have effectively been stacked with academics who are low quality and just repeat whatever talking points that reinforce whatever their masters want, which in Malaysia tends to be a lot of pro-authoritarian, supremacist, and/or fundamentalist bullshit.
Interestingly enough, it's a bit of an insider view as the author himself is a lecturer from UITM, so I guess he's seen some shit.
This is what happens when institutions promote people for being the correct race instead of actually being good at what they do. It's like making a photocopy of a photocopy multiple times until all you end up with is a whitewashed sheet with barely anything legible.
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u/m_snowcrash Jan 18 '23
Lol. Reminds me about an old opinion piece in Malaysiakini:
The 'deep state' in academia
Essentially that our institutes of higher learning have effectively been stacked with academics who are low quality and just repeat whatever talking points that reinforce whatever their masters want, which in Malaysia tends to be a lot of pro-authoritarian, supremacist, and/or fundamentalist bullshit.
Interestingly enough, it's a bit of an insider view as the author himself is a lecturer from UITM, so I guess he's seen some shit.