Post-modernism isn’t a political ideology OR a religion lol Did you get that from JBP? Because he takes sort of an... ideosyncratic approach to defining terms
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Then why must the postmodernist stifle all debate? Why not invite the Alt Right to the campus and destroy them in debate if your arguments are so powerful? How would you be treated if you openly rejected these views to any friends who currently share them? Try it and see.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Who are you talking about? Do the postmodernists own YouTube, or run colleges, or attend them? Or all three? I honestly don’t know who you’re referring to. I hear “Postmodernist,” I think Derrida, or maybe like, Thomas Pynchon, Charlie Kaufman, Hideo Kojima, y’know... writers
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
All good points! This is fun! No, but postmodernist beliefs are becoming more common. Most non-STEM subjects have a majority that either hold those views or agree with them because it is necessary for their career. As I said if you are not a member of the faith you are evil.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
I’ve never seen people forced to hold postmodernist views, I think it’d be like that episode of South Park with the abusive agnostic family. I would guess you mean either a PC culture thing, or perhaps the idea that left-wing views are aggressively pushed by profs and depts?
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @simon_enefer and
I think the effects of both of those are usually exaggerated (and there are a LOT of right-wingers in academia, the closest thing to a lefty cabal is in the arts) But academia can socialize itself in pretty toxic or unhelpful ways, and a lot of professors SUCK, so it does happen
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
In what subjects are right wingers even a substantial minority? Can they express views without risking their careers?
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
They might have majorities in law, business, classics, economics (especially at some schools, where they dominate) I’ve seen substantial minorities in english, philosophy, engineering, history, CS The leftiest, in my experience, always seem to be math, sociology, and some arts
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
SIlent majorities don't matter. If 5% of a group are organised, vocal and ruthless, they can force the disunited majority down the path they want, as is happening today. It then become essential to be seen to support the new orthodoxy or risk losing one's career/livelihood.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
The Goths only gained an organized, vocal ruthlessness towards the empire due to systemic abuse, though. Earlier peoples had been treated more favorably, with even the slaves treated as full citizens upon “earning” their freedom.
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Most barbarians admired Rome, but couldn't understand it, their cultures being barely above the tribal level. No pre industrial state could feed such numbers without months of preparation. Rome needed six months to prepare for military movements in the tens of thousands.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
The thing about a republic though, is the member states could also produce their own food.
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