Why I support social segregation, even though I come from a working-class background and am the first academic in my family
The basic premise for opposing social segregation is often that it prevents social mobility, even if we are in a country where there are already clear opportunities for social mobility, i.e. comprehensive social services and free education, like in the Nordic countries. I don't like this view, what I see between the lines is that the people who take responsibility for education should disproportionately bear the burden of the educational gaps of people who, of course, have caused it themselves. Opponents of social segregation should understand that we, responsible students, do not bear responsibility for people who deliberatively do not educate themselves and are left behind. In the Nordic countries, social segregation is completely justified because a weak social position is not structural but a person's own deliberative choice. They aren't interested in anything related to academic education.
The working class mentality has this strange idea that people should sacrifice their energy and time for something that is unsustainable. Well, I know where it comes from, Finnish vocational education. People are already radically segregated in Finnish secondary education. In a Nietzschean sense, Finnish vocational school students learn slave morality, and Finnish upper secondary school teaches master morality.
The slave morality of Finnish vocational education is downright like fascism. In Mussolini's Italy, there was a philosopher and education minister named Giovanni Gentile. In a nutshell, he brought the idea to fascist thinking that a person should be completely collectivist, even at their own expense. You are not allowed to have any wishes of your own and you are not allowed to question anything, but you are doing this because you are doing this and you are shit if you don't and you're shit even in case of questioning any of it. I don't think teachers are ideological fascists, because they don't know any ideological frames of reference due to their limited education, but the legacy of Finnish war trauma is most strongly visible in the working class because they don't go to therapy, they drink, ruminate, talk shit, do nothing sensible like self-improvement and their values are updated decades behind (because they are not interested in educating themselves, which would give them new ways of thinking, instead of stupid finnish wartime stale views and ultranationalism), which is why Finland, as an ally of Germany, adopted this fascist collectivization at the expense of the worker through the Max Weber's theory of Protestant work ethic. Usually working-class people suffer in such a stupid culture of obligation at their own expense, but instead of questioning why their employers are sadists, why they are treated badly and what they could do about it, they have a crab mentality, meaning they want even the academic with master morality to suffer with them because hey, misery loves company.
The master morality of upper secondary school students' (who actually study there) and academics is in itself a prerequisite for critical thinking, sustainable philosophy, and scientific thinking. How could you ever research anything if you rely on other people without questioning their views? Research is strongly linked to the autonomy of science, and that autonomy also applies to respecting the independence of researchers.