I've had a slight personal experience with this despite not being in the arts/humanities, I'm in CS/HCI
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I have a side project on a committee where we're working on A Thing to help first-years deal with the stresses of the HS->Uni transition
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And someone of a higher standing than "grad student" offhandedly remarked one of the things it should address is dealing with Capitalism
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I don't think it really occurred to her that it would be needlessly polarizing for something we're hoping to reach a broad audience
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Broad audiences exist to be converted by the missionaries of the new truth. Why else would you assemble them?
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Indeed; and for those of us who find that negative, it can be an uncanny reminder that often it isn't a grand, urgent coordination
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(Despite that the Blue Checkmarks try to make it sound like it is, and that it's a good thing!)
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Instead it seems like for many movers-and-shakers it's one of those subconscious goals like "eat more greens"
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Nah, doesn't read that way. Tbf apart from the political angle, people *do* expect charitable acts to be connected to personal narrative.
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Utilitarian thinking tends to produce bafflement.
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This is not trolling. It is semi-self-aware, and sincere. It hints at, but does not fully recognize, the disaster leftism is inflicting.
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Why would it be trolling? I suspect it’s accurate. Bitterly so.
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