394
Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
394 points (98.8% liked)
News
32499 readers
3583 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Exactly! Who needs access to trained professionals when you can "do your own research"! Am I right or am I right?
It depends on the profession, but for most things people go to college for they can teach themselves.
College ends up being a place where they give you tutorials and walk you through books. If you can do that on your own, why pay thousands of dollars to have someone else hold your hand?
I'll admit, a lot of you people lack self-discipline so you won't learn without someone else forcing you to. In that way, college is a lot like rehab. It's a place for rich people to waste their money because they can't take responsibility for themselves.
But hey, all those smart people attending college can't be wrong, right? It's just not possible?
Imagine how stupid the average idiot would be if it turned out that most people attending college were just partaking in a scam.
Imagine that.
spoiler
If you get a full-ride to an Ivy League, then you're exempt from any of this criticism. But that doesn't apply to any of you because none of you actually took your education seriously enough when it mattered, so you got trounced by those who did.Listening to you talk, maybe it's where I learned humility and how not to make sweeping generalizations that make me look like a moron but who knows? I'm just a brainwashed college educated drone.
Sorry you had to pay people tens of thousands of dollars over the course of at least 4 years to teach you that after you've become a legal adult.
Admitting it is the first step. You're already ahead of some of these other posters.