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I know that the Academy is important, and that £200m in contracts resulting from the training of our great players is a significant figure. But could sports journos quit talking about children and young men in industrial terms using neoliberal speak –and frankly, the language of slavery? It's the language of slavery. Disgusting.
Imagine if universities discussed the value, salaries, and proceeds from the work of their alumni in terms of humans-as-product? People would probably complain.
Academy: We easily accept language like:
“£200m generated by academy products”
“Return on investment” in these kids.
Universities:
“Our graduates earn on average X per year.”
“Our alumni are in top firms.”
But we don’t see:
“We’ve generated £5bn from the sale of our alumni to corporations.”
“Our students are our most profitable products.”
If a university said:
“The Law School has generated £3bn from selling its alumni to top firms, a very productive era in human exports”
@vruz Isn't this for the rather obvious reason that employers don't pay universities transfer fees?
@mike No. Please don't make me explain this to you.
@vruz I must remember "Please don't make me explain this to you" the next time someone spots that I've said something completely illogical, and I want to appear supercilious rather than backing down. Thanks for the life hack.
@mike I am trying to be charitable to you.
Not that you are doing this now, I'm only anticipating that going forward, in a hypotetical future, If you ever insist in saying borderline disrespectful, fundamentally dehumanising things, and then in an hypothetical fever, you doubled down saying frankly stupid things, I may not be able to keep so much charity going on indefinitely.
I don’t think you have bad intentions or ulterior motives. But your flippancy turns what could be a meaningful discussion into performance. You — even with all your serious education and obvious sophistication — are choosing to echo the discourse of the most ignorant and brutal elements of society.
That’s the line I don’t want to cross with you. Hope you are able to appreciate that.
... people would likely find that:
- Creepy
- Dehumanising
- Corporate/industrial to a gross degree
Why do we tolerate this kind of language in sports journalism then?
Disgusting.
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