The one persistent thing I have against the intellectual dark web, besides the ridiculous name and the shoddy science, is the choice of enemies.
Whatever I do, and wherever I go in life, being defined by my opposition to neo-Marxist university professors sounds like a bad time.
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Fighting the power, such as ineffectual student protesters and That Guy from gender studies!
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Organizing a counterrevolution, against people we openly admit are too clueless to do much of anything, anywhere.
Good stuff.
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I understand localized activism and that some of these issues are quite egregious, in context.
But making a huge societal problem out of an issue that is academic, both literally and figuratively, if you don't live in Sweden? It's fatuous and self-aggrandizing nonsense.
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It's punching down. Calling up the spectre of ressentiment to silence all callouts of abuse of privilege.
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The hilarious absurdity of the enemies they're willing to admit to opposing just points to the unspeakability of the full range of their downward punching antipathy.
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See, I always feel like this explanation is missing something.
Punching down is certainly occuring when established professors take political shots at students, but...
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... it's always accidental to the cause. The thought-policing neo-Marxist professors that *do* exist, harass students for ideological reasons.
I suspect for JBP et al., it's also an ideological reason that drives the same behavior. It's something to do with purity, methinks.
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I meant the idw punches down at historically unprivileged people who are trying to make a space for themselves within a hostile culture, and whose representatives occasionally overstep and give an excuse to the beneficiaries of privilege to cry oppression.
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