on Temple
I have almost always been an especially proud
Temple alum. It was the working class PA school for weirdos who dyed their hair and needed to escape central PA. It was diverse, it was ostensibly pro-labor, it was where I was radicalized.
It was the first place I met more than one or two openly queer people, the place I learned socialists still existed (and joined them), the place I first read Marx not framed as an evil ideologue but as someone to learn from, the place I ran to at 17 when I felt like my small town would squish me until there was nothing left.
But that Temple doesn't exist anymore (if it ever did) and certainly doesn't for the administration, retaliating against @TUGSA_6290 instead of living up to their “claimed” roots as a working class institution.
The mythos of Temple as an institution founded as a night school (Owls!) for working people, as the option for kids who wanted to go to the city to learn, as Philadelphia's University doesn't work when the university shows itself as so anti-labor, anti-worker, anti-student.
But what the fuck did @TempleUniv expect? Marketing itself as a working class university (temple made, real world raised lmao), as a place for this kind of work, of course students and alumni would support strikers?
I expect this shit from Penn, sadly I never expected it from Temple. but I should have.