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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019

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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019

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      Conservatives: Political Correctness is destroying Western Civilization. Also Conservatives: We'll push for the destruction of academic disciplines that are thousands of years old rather than risk one undergraduate reading Toni Morrison. https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1134841341907734529 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019

          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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        1. Resolve.Action.Love  🌻‏ @Snowman55403 2 Jun 2019
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          Why bomb ourselves back to the Stone age, when we can voluntarily create Dark Ages II, The Stupiding.

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        1. Benjamin Osipov‏ @benosipov1 2 Jun 2019
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          The "We must destroy Western Civilization in order to save it" crowd is getting worryingly loud

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        2. Space Monkey Mafia‏ @ChaKatKimber 2 Jun 2019
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          Ah, Silicon Valley. "Look everybody, we invented buses! We need billions of dollars of investment to replace busing with busing that also scans your face to see if you need future arresting!"

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        1. the theis must flow‏ @frenchdipset 2 Jun 2019
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          These are much the same people who love to holler at the top of their lungs about the crucial need to Defend Western Civilization smdh

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        1. InsideJoke‏ @JO_clever_KE 2 Jun 2019
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          I maintain Shakespeare is overvalued. The language is so hard to follow that you’d be better off having high school students read Walden.

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        1. DanaBlankenhorn‏ @danablankenhorn 2 Jun 2019
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          Many who have done real science find they need the skills of a humanities major to do the work.

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        1. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 2 Jun 2019
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          🤔Here's an interesting article about the recent state of Universities in Hungary. The Orban Administration's own privatization goal here seems kinda counterproductive, because it'd undermine its kulturkampf aims...: https://hungarianspectrum.org/2018/10/07/another-leap-in-the-dark-privatization-of-hungarian-universities/ …

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        1. Matthew Boedy‏ @MatthewBoedy 2 Jun 2019
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          As a rhetoric professor, my area would probably survive but in different home (mainly in English depts now). But “the right” has its own rhetoric to end most of the humanities, indeed.

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