tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post4400148194562691462..comments2024-03-09T19:23:22.482-03:00Comments on The RPGPundit: Uncracked Monday: Privilege and "Narrative"RPGPundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-45119724677319928152014-04-28T16:24:25.784-04:002014-04-28T16:24:25.784-04:00And I would agree with you. The left has absolutel...And I would agree with you. The left has absolutely shot itself in the foot by embracing all this stuff. <br /><br />Its also been one of the most notable changes to have happened within my lifetime; when I was a child, if you were right-wing you were very likely an anti-semite, while if you were a leftist you were probably a supporter of Israel.<br />Today it is almost exactly the reverse, and in some ways I think "where you stand on the Jews" is a pretty good litmus test of how insane your ideologies are. You seriously have a fucking problem with your movement if you've contorted your logic to the point where you think the guys who want to have a stable democracy are the great villains while the guys who want to shoot 14-year old girls in the head for learning to read are the heroic ones.RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-30249786667854537742014-04-28T07:45:41.542-04:002014-04-28T07:45:41.542-04:00It's pretty funny how, in the 1980's, the ...It's pretty funny how, in the 1980's, the U.S. right-wing was in love with some of the worst (and most murderous) Islamic reactionaries (the Afghan Mujahadeen), dubbed as "freedom fighters", while now the fake-left suddenly supports the same reactionaries under exactly the same slogans.<br /><br />Real leftists in the actual third-world are fighting against these religious reactionaries, who are typically good allies of the village gentry, the sweatshop bosses and other scumbags.<br /><br />Oh, and the entire "identity politics" are a great asset for the ruling oligarchy as instead of people uniting to fight for their common interests, they get divided. The same goes with post-modernism (i.e. nothing is true so why fight to change the world?) and other crap which serves the modern oligarchy in the same way that the church dogma served the feudal lords in the Middle Ages (i.e. keep people passive - after all "it's all narratives"). Screw narratives. Screw identities. Screw privilege-talk. Go out to the streets and fight for real things.<br /><br />Post-Modernism (i.e. "nothing is true"), "critical" theory (which busies itself with criticising, not fighting) and identity politics (divisive and pointless) have actually crippled the left.<br /><br />(I am writing this as a radical leftist myself).Omer Golan-Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09242085820257230639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-61757149759172638192014-04-17T02:43:31.158-04:002014-04-17T02:43:31.158-04:00I don't know if that's really possible, no...I don't know if that's really possible, not without a major culture change.RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-8323382770064526642014-04-17T01:16:44.147-04:002014-04-17T01:16:44.147-04:00So how would you attempt to stop it?So how would you attempt to stop it?Snowman0147https://www.blogger.com/profile/04811245101715889991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-34439151343277192632014-04-16T22:12:55.927-04:002014-04-16T22:12:55.927-04:00If you're suggesting that the College SYSTEM i...If you're suggesting that the College SYSTEM itself is a fucked-up victim of its own success, then yes, I'd absolutely agree. Its perhaps possible that this fucked-upness on the financial/institutional level has affected the rise of the Frankfurt-school critical-theory anti-civilization types dominating almost all areas and shutting out any opposition (ironically changing Universities from bastions of free speech to bastions of politically-correct speech-control where diversity of ideas is persecuted), but I'm not sure the correlation is all that direct. The Frankfurt school started their infiltration shortly before university education began going to shit. Academia was ALWAYS the place where bad ideas could go to hide, because they required no real-world testing with real-world consequences there. That's nothing new. What's new is that now the Pushers of Bad Ideas rule the roost at every level of the education system.RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-59479812265300940142014-04-16T20:12:29.307-04:002014-04-16T20:12:29.307-04:00Your maybe right on the professors, but what about...Your maybe right on the professors, but what about the deans? College coffers have to be full if the college hopes to exist. If you make a dean choose to sacrifice a college, or sacrifice a bullshit class along with its bullshit professor which would a dean choose? I imagine a wise dean would sacrifice a few classes so the college can keep going.Snowman0147https://www.blogger.com/profile/04811245101715889991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-67315431150275693402014-04-16T19:47:00.515-04:002014-04-16T19:47:00.515-04:00I don't think most of these people are in it f...I don't think most of these people are in it for the money. College professors don't earn that much. They're in it because its an environment where they can feel important (without having to actually do much or show much talent other than for bullshitting) and where they can serve their (sickeningly warped) cause.RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-35710093610293665712014-04-16T13:29:47.032-04:002014-04-16T13:29:47.032-04:00I imagine it is the money and power of authority t...I imagine it is the money and power of authority that attract these fakes. If the government stop lending money to would be college students I wonder what would happen when colleges are no longer getting students? No seriously I am wondering what would happen if you take out the grants and borrowing money because college is expensive.<br /><br />Sure it would mean that less people are able to go to college, but it might force colleges to start dropping bullshit classes. Am I wrong in thinking of this?Snowman0147https://www.blogger.com/profile/04811245101715889991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600947515654238699.post-70586487341947043822014-04-15T01:00:24.405-04:002014-04-15T01:00:24.405-04:00meanwhile, I will note that it has now been reveal...meanwhile, I will note that it has now been revealed that part of the pressure on Brandeis University (ironically, a university historically founded by Jewish academics who were trying to address the anti-semitism that limited their opportunities as scholars in America at the time) came from a collection of over 80 faculty members, actual alleged "academics" demanding that someone else be silenced for their political views.<br /><br />And in their signed letter, they even proved my point: These people have been so utterly rotted in their minds that they can't even conceive of the idea of anything being truth or facts. The letter talks about how "we cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali's triumphalist narrative of western civilization". To them, this is all about what they imagine is a story they don't like, versus the one they want to believe in (the one they want to believe in being one where western civilization is the corrupt root of all malice, and where other cultures are 'noble savages' who do no wrong that wasn't brought about by evil white men). The "narrative" of Hirsi Ali's life, of a girl facing mutilation and then a woman facing horrific brutality escaping that savagery to the civilization of the west and then praising the values of the culture that saved and protected her against one that still has people seeking her death even to this day, that is the "narrative" that isn't working for these scholars. <br /><br />The letter also tried to claim that one of Hirsi Ali's crimes is that by talking about the horrific violence committed against girls and women in third-world Muslim countries it diminishes attention to the "violence" perpetrated by the west, including the "rape culture" of college campuses. Right, because the 'rape culture' of frat boys calling girls 'hot babes' is EXACTLY as bad as (or, I suppose the narrative they want to imagine is that its 'worse' than) slicing the clitoris and labia off an 8 year old child.<br /><br />What really bothers them is that Hirsi Ali's real campaign for human rights (freedom from female mutilation, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of expression) for which she is in danger of her life, shows off just what a ridiculous charade, what a pathetic joke, the 'campaigns' of Women's Studies Majors in U.S. colleges against the 'patriarchy' really is, what a shallow narcissistic circus act of pseudo-activism it is for them to be dedicating their time and effort to the vital struggle of 'raising awareness' that western men who like comic book covers of cartoon superwomen in bikinis is "rape" while people like Hirsi Ali campaign against 11-year-olds having to flee from their lives after trying to escape forced marriage in Yemen or while 14 year old girls who commit the sin of wanting to learn how to read are being shot in the face by those poor wonderful victims of "western-Jewish aggression" in Pakistan.<br /><br />They hate her because she shows just how fake they are, and how fake their alleged causes are. And because she points out the inconvenient narrative that the civilization they despise so much (their own), fight actively to undermine, and would cheer at the destruction of, is the absolute best hope for fighting for the rights of women throughout a world where everyone else does a much worse job of it.RPGPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267330191433119298noreply@blogger.com