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Why fascists hate universities | Jason Stanley

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In Bangladesh , a student-led democracy movement successfully challenged a violent autocratic leader.

In Pakistan , the popular former prime minister and leader of the opposition party, Imran Khan , was jailed a year ago , an act dictated by Pakistan ’s military.

Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent.

It is not implausible to take the goal to have been, at least largely, a preliminary show of police power to university students.

In the United States , the Republican party has long been aware of the democratic potential of student movements.

With great courage and determination, the students in Bangladesh have shown that this strategy can be made to backfire.

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