Re:How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
by stcredzero on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:03PM
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That's hardly the takeaway from this article.
The article talks about academics being persecuted.
In Turkey the state took jobs and freedom of mobility away from those with ideologies that the regime did not favor.
Good point. To look for authoritarianism, look for powerful organizations and people taking away jobs and economic security from "those with ideologies the regime did not favor." It works for more types of organizations than just the state.
> look for powerful organizations and people taking away jobs and economic security from "those with ideologies the regime did not favor."
That's going to make those people desperate and ready to fight the government. Next step for the government is going to be imprisoning lots of people and manufacturing consent and all that.
Re:How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
by stcredzero on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:16PM
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and manufacturing consent and all that
That's another good heuristic. Look for those who manufacture consent, and try to suppress dissent.
This article says nothing about persecution from the academic establishment to which you refer.