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Despite criticism and complaints, MIT won't cut ties to Saudi Arabia
MIT won't sever its financial and research ties to Saudi Arabian government groups over the brutal killing of a journalist, despite the urging of many faculty and students, and complaints by some of the university's female researchers that they face more restrictions than their male colleagues when working in the Saudi kingdom.
On Wednesday, MIT president, L. Rafael Reif, denounced the behavior of the Saudi regime for violating human rights but rejected calls to unilaterally pull out of engagements in the Middle Eastern country.
MIT needs to provide faculty autonomy to decide whether they want to remain on the current projects and can't abandon those in Saudi Arabia, including alumni, who are trying to modernize the kingdom, Reif said.
"MIT utterly condemns such brutal human rights violations, discrimination and suppression of dissent, including the murder of Jamal Khashoggi," Reif said in a message to the MIT community. "Nevertheless, I hope we can respond to present circumstances in a way that does not suddenly reject, abandon, or isolate worthy Saudi people who share our principles and are doing good work."
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday February 07 2019, @09:04PM
The US employs a form of affirmative action / reverse discrimination that been shown to harm to the lower-income classes it claims to aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States#Class_inequality [wikipedia.org]
And since those classes are largely populated by racial minorities... Yes. Everyone who takes part in the economy is complicit to systematic racial discrimination. Only reason I left out the public sector is because the police's hiring are restricted to mid-low classes from the get go so affirmative action works there. Of course, that's like complimenting the inquisition for their fair wages policy... Not so much a drop in the bucket as it's the spark that set the fire.
Good authoritarianism? I'm laying out the kind of arguments that justify a "lets chop down the 1% heads" type of bloody revolution here... Only reason I'm against such an act is because Trump has managed to galvanize everyone against this status quo to such a degree I honestly believe the next administration will have enough of a moral mandate to correct most of this. And, as mentioned in the other post, the Chinese and Russians are even worse.
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