on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism
Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.
1. we are right to criticize the many problems in higher education
2. fascists manipulate people into hating anyone involved in higher education for supposedly looking down on them and being worthless to the “real world.” as a result, funding for education is cut, especially for the arts, no one listens to historians who point out that history is repeating itself or speak out against the regime, freedom of speech is lost in favor of the party line, and/or climate change kills us all since no one listens to scientists.
3. therefore, when we criticize higher education, we should be careful not to contribute to fascist tropes that claim that having knowledge is bad/smug/out of touch/useless to society.
Let me try:
1. Universities and colleges with long histories often keep using the power structures they began with: favoring the rich and ruling classes, while society changes around them (That’s how we get phrases like “The Ivory Tower”).
2. It’s good to question this, and to finally get these universities and colleges to be more open to students from less privileged classes (economic, racial, gender, orientation, disability, etc.).
3. But instead of criticizing the power structures, fascists demonize learning and thinking, and say that people who try to learn too much (or learn things “above their station”) can’t be trusted, and are “enemies of the state.”
4. When this happens, people become afraid to question the government or government-appointed “experts,” and tyrants move in and start doing whatever they want (making it even better for the rich and ruling classes, and worse for everyone else).
Yea
I don’t even know how to fucking describe the raw power and energy I felt from this god damn video it’s like someone grabbed me by my fuckin brain and launched it into the astroid belt where every part of my being begins to be torn apart and put back together again only to be floating in a never ending space cloud of dreams before I came back to my god forsaken human body
Okay!
“Oh, so you wanna use pronouns, asshole? Want me to respect your wittle pronouns? Oh, I’ll use your pronouns, buddy. Just you watch.” *respects my pronouns*
Fuckin’ owned, I guess, dude. Shit.
They isn’t a pronoun. He or she is.
”He”, “she”, “they”, and “it” are third-person personal pronouns.
A pronoun is simply a word that acts as a substitute for another, more specific noun or phrase. There are eight different types of pronouns: indefinite, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, possessive, interrogative, reciprocal, and personal. A personal pronoun stands in place of a person’s name or title - “I” and “you” are personal pronouns in the first and second person, respectively. “Nobody” and “something” are singular indefinite pronouns.
“They” is absolutely a pronoun. If you are going to criticize strangers for the words they use to refer to themselves, at least have some idea what you are talking about. I sincerely doubt that whatever opinions you may have about “they” as a singular third-person personal pronoun are based upon a well-informed understanding of grammar.
Idg why people are against busty women in turtlenecks, literally who cares if you have “uniboob”? To whom do you owe separate and defined titties? Only cowards and fools fear the breast monolith
do you ever just suddenly learn there’s apparently a whole Discourse you’ve never heard of before
