Message from @Dvir
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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.
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.
You can shout words really loudly really close to people's ears and hurt them.
Or you can cause a lot more damage a lot more easily with a loudspeaker.
I mean like the people who think that me speaking in a certain tone means I'm being violent
No.
yeah, nah
you're not the dovahkiin
wth is so wrong with blackfacing?
e.g. in austria the "3 kings" that visited jesus, go around and sing at your door
one of them is usually blackfaced
same in germany
Because people took some of the American history of skin darkening, minstrel shows, divorced it from historical context and now claim that any attempt to darken one's skin is blackface.
@mer.at black face used to be a very specific style of panting a face, usually made to make fun of black people. It usually evolved leaving lots of skin still showing around the eyes and mouth to try and exaggerate a monkey style look.
this has ballooned to trying to look anything other than your race is now racist
Megyn clearly thought blackface simply meant a white person using makeup to look like a black person, she clearly didn't know there was connotation to racist minstrel shows.
We no longer look at a persons intent with there words.