Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public squalor." Funding for public education has sharply declined. As higher education is driven to a business model in accord with neoliberal doctrine, administrative bureaucracy has sharply increased at the expense of faculty and students. Cost-cutting leads to hyper-exploitation of the more vulnerable, creating a new precariat of graduate students and adjuncts surviving on a bare pittance, replacing tenured faculty.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.