1.) Presentation, Socialism 2025 conference, University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi:
“I don’t care about this institution. Like I don’t—like fuck the University of Chicago, it’s evil. Like, you know? It’s a colonial landlord.“
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2.) Abdelhadi comment to the university newspaper, a few days later:
“I love my life at the University of Chicago.”
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You may also sing:
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Or is it more complex than this? Recall Geoffrey Firmin, the main character in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano:
“I love hell. I can’t wait to get back there.”