{"id":176144,"date":"2020-08-25T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/25\/what-duncan-said\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:53:00","slug":"what-duncan-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/25\/what-duncan-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Duncan Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But this isn&#8217;t like putting a sign in front of a cliff which says, &#8220;please don&#8217;t step right up to the edge of the cliff,&#8221; and then blaming the student who plunged to his death for failing to obey the sign. Though that&#8217;s the story university administrators want to tell.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The student who steps up to the edge of the cliff, idiot as he may be, is tethered to 5 more students, who are tethered to 5 more students, who are tethered to 5 more students&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That some number of students are dipsh%$s was known by the responsible adults making these plans. That each student dipsh%$ is going to infect some number of other &#8220;blameless&#8221; students is regularly ignored.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2020\/08\/nobody-could-have-predicted_25.html\">Atrios<\/a>, aka Duncan Black<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>He is completely right.&nbsp; In the context of a residential educational institution, it is impossible to make <b>ALL<\/b> the students behave responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators know this, and so the outbreaks are a direct result of their callously disregard for the safety of their students, because they wanted the tuition and fee money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But this isn&#8217;t like putting a sign in front of a cliff which says, &#8220;please don&#8217;t step right up to the edge of the cliff,&#8221; and then blaming the student who plunged to his death for failing to obey the sign. Though that&#8217;s the story university administrators want to tell.The student who steps up to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,397,364,588,572,460],"class_list":["post-176144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}