{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Marketizing the \"college experience\" is part of what will kill this country.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/70665327936/", "html": "Marketizing the \"college experience\" is part of what will kill this country.\n

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“the college experience” was always “the ruling class experience”

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there\u2019s some British college where - okay someone look this up for me I\u2019m drunk - okay colleges were under canon and not civil law so the students had civil immunity

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this was forever…

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Colleges chartered as nonprofits are exempted from local taxation so they give “donations in lieu” of taxation at will, until the uppity townies cross them.

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