Isn’t this just cancel culture by the Right? The claim is that they are accused of “wrong think”.
To be clear, I support the students’ right to protest, and a lot of cancel culture “victims” were rightly shunned for shitty takes or bad behaviors.
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Americans: please cancel our student debt
America: cancels your degree
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Is it possible to check how many convicted thieves, rapists and/or murderers still hold their degrees? You know, just for fun, to see where their priorities are...
I'd say check the nazis too but theyre more of the education by "faith" types than education by actual education.
In all seriousness though, has a US university ever stripped a nazi or holocaust denyer of their degree? Surely that ideology is just as, if not more harmful?
Well trump still has his.
How can you cancel a degree. It’s a proof of work and meeting requirements for graduation. You can’t “un-work” what they did.
Only between the student and the university. Towards third parties, a degree is not a proof of work. It's just a certification whose value depends on trust in the certifier. Of course they have the power to revoke it.
There are more legitimate reasons they could do so, like if evidence of plagiarism is found after the degree was granted.
Honestly I would consider it theft, if I paid tens of thousands of dollars only for it to be revoked later that would be bullshit. Like buying a car with cash and then the dealership repoing it because they don't like your political stance three years later.
Unless there is a clause somewhere in some contract that was signed I would be surprised if that were even legal.
RIP Columbia university
It sounds like it's a shit hole anyway.
Now we know that a degree from there after 2029 means they support genocide.
2026 enrolment numbers are gonna be lit!
Reminds me of the lists of prohibited words universities would send to students that are banned.
Any better sources?
Search engines are pretty cool just so you know...
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-protest-expulsions-suspension/
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