Obran's banning of gender studies & expulsion of Central European University has excited the right to think big: what if we get rid of the humanities altogether? https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1134841341907734529 …
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It's interesting to contemplate what would happen if the humanities were completely defunded (as some on the right want). A few canonical writers would continue to be read (Shakespeare, Austen & Dickens) but vast majority of classical canon (i.e. Horace or Pope) would disappear.
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Ironically, the main effect of abolishing humanities would be disappearance of writers who are backbone of conservative thought. I mean, people will continue to read Dickens for pleasure but few will pick up Samuel Johnson or Pope or Burke unless required to do so.
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Rule 1: Grab everything you can. Rule 2: Take up as much space as you can. Rule 3: Never share. Rule 4: If sharing seems unavoidable, start the auto-destruct sequence.
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To paraphrase Clemenza: "Leave the humanities. Take the Confederate statues."
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There's a joke here about conservatives and their lack of humanities, but I won't make it
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TRUE but many of the Great Books have been replaced by writers like Tillie Olson.
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Who Are The Snowflakes Though, No, Really?
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We already have this in the US to a certain extent. The Missouri lege has been trying to use defunding to force their state U to persecute liberal student groups&end "liberal" courses for awhile now.
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Modern conservatives. Good god, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing. A fucking cancer, apparently; can be put into remission, never eliminated.
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