**Question**: Should political topics be involved in tests like the SAT and ACT? I just took the PSAT today, and in the reading section there were two excerpts about black feminism. Though I forget what the excerpts were from, it offset me to see it in such a test.

No.

But the colleges have decided that's "nonpolitical" and inline with what they want to teach.

Unless you can rally enough people to really fight back...

It's troubling to me because the test makers are fairly secretive in what they put in the test.

I hate to break it to you, but the next 4 years are only going to get worse.

I'm in academia (sort of) and I can say that's exactly the kind of thing they do these days.

True, I remember taking the PSAT 2 years ago and there no questions of that sort back then.

Yeah, the far left kinda has uncontested control of the humanities at this point.

There's as many or more radicals in departments like Sociology than there are moderates.

And (in all likelihood) 0 conservatives of any kind. And those that do exist don't exactly have the mass to accomplish anything besides get defunded.

If you want someone to talk to, you're welcome to PM me anytime.

And for students there's definitely organizations you can join.

Thanks, I just find it disturbing that the excerpts are in such a widespread test like the PSAT.

I find it disturbing too. But I'm somehow unsurprised.

The excepts had to have gone through a slew of people to be approved, and apparently none of them thought it wasn't political

Mostly underpaid faculty and grad students in humanities programs.

You should look at the colloquia list. It's farther Social Justice Left than you've ever imagined. Even at "right wing" schools in "red states"

I called someone out on that point in another discord

His argument was that Rand is bad and has been debunked by academics (though he initially worded it as an appeal to authority) and then proceeded to try to defend academia, which is where I hopped in with the hoaxes and bias

How do 'academics' debunk a philosophical ideology on- you know what, never mind.

Lol

Just fire everyone who holds it of course! And replace them with your friends from the recent protest.

It's just so ridiculous. I'm no objectivist, but acting like Rand had 0 valid points is silly

Welcome to the modulus operandi of the modern academy.

You're either on the right side of history...or you're stupid and need education.

It's become fashionable among lefty circles to shit on Ayn Rand.

Ayn Rand is my waifu though.

Because the characters are not total rando normies that do mundane shit, they are supposedly not believable - while their stuff is filled with Mary Sues that roundhouse kick 800 lbs gorillas.

They expect characters with zero personality, like 50 shades of rape, so that they can project their own miserable being into them.

They can't have characters that challenge them, because that would require self-reflection.

So, naturally they hate Ayn Rand.

Although I am not a laissez-faire capitalistic, I can at least appreciate the substance of her work.

i'm not sure she is

Although that might not be the best classification of her, I am still pretty sure she held up laissez-faire capitalism as the unreachable perfect form of capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PQlX9NDL0

I get what she is saying, if government wasn't corrupt then a laissez-faire market can flourish. However I personally do not believe that there should be an international free market.

I'll be in talk room #1 if anyone wants to go there and talk about something interesting

Can words be violent

can property destruction be violent

Yes.