Thread 17950122

Are any of you retards in college? How would you describe the political lean of your college’s history or classical arts program?

a lot of academics are completely cynical about politics. they won't say or do anything out of line unless it helps them personally. in a way, that makes everything a lot more neutral. just don't piss anyone off, which isn't hard.
but the core of the university is the admin, and they're all liberal women and jews that hate White people. I don't even think it's ideological for them, it's a pre-political loyalty.

>>17950122 (OP)
Pretty much every professor I had was vocally left-wing.
>One professor has a twitter account where he rants and raves about Trump 24/7
>Another wore John Brown shirts to class every day and was a pretty big negrophile
>One lady professor was supposed to be teaching history of Colonial America but spent the first 30-45 minutes letting the class hold a Socratic Seminar about whatever was in the news
>One professorwas supposed to be teaching English 101 but used the course as her personal soapbox to teach books like Between the World and Me by Coates
>Philosophy professor one time tell me a story where one of his colleagues was literally mugged at gunpoint and refused to call the police because "muh racism and poverty made him do it, ACAB".
>Most grievous offense was the art department during Black History Month displaying student art of a black woman choking a white woman to death in the lobby of the art college, right front and center

Maybe some of you Anons went to schools where the attitude was neutral or conservative, but both colleges I went to fit the stereotype of overtly leftist humanities program.

>>17950122 (OP)
>Are any of you retards in college?
I went back to school and finished my degree in June (in Seattle), things have definitely changed since 2016 (last time I went)
>How would you describe the political lean of your college’s history or classical arts program?
It's what I'll call "unenthusiastic wokeness they try to pass off as moderate leftism". What that means is:
>"unenthusiastic wokeness'
The prof.'s (who aren't young females) seem to be phoning it in. I don't know if its due to dispassionate listlessness of zoomers but they seem checkout. For example they'll plop down an obvious woke agenda such as a cherry-picked example of a militia killing some natives, and then say "how does this make you feel about settler culture?" and the zoomers will give flatline robotic canned responses like "it's terrible how we treated natives we need to recognize what we did and make amends" and then go right back to their phones. This differs from 2014-2016 when millennials would get really worked up, so the baiting doesn't seem to work anymore.
>"passed off as moderate leftism"
What I mean is they try to (and fail) to pass off wokeness in more palatable form. In 2016 they would beat you over the head with wokeness (one time we had to write report about how "all white men are responsible for rape"), and they'll claim to empathize with opposing side via intercultural praxis or throwing bones (like "we know white men are oppressed but not as much as POC)", but ultimately they do a shit ton of lying by omission (like endlessly listing W. Euro atrocities and none by commies/browns) and it's pretty obvious. BUT the very fact they've had to back down at all shows that things are changing.

>>17950220
That describes SPU ten years ago. I went back recently (finish my degree) and the culture has shifted away from identity politics towards basic bitch soc dem stuff (like: current geo-politics, economics and environmentism rather the then shit like "we need to let blacks commit crimes cause institutional racism").
That's not to say I didn't have woke professors, but they were weirdly defensive about it, like they knew society was skeptical. The only exception was an English bitch that did "labor based grading" (basically you get a grade based on how much work you did rather then if you understood the subject or not, so I just pulled random shit out of my ass).

>>17950274
Although shoehorning emotions into history is the opposite of what a history class should be, I don't feel like it's necessarily "woke" to discuss past grievances like unjustified violence/discrimination against the Natives. If you were teaching that segment about Native American to White American relations, how would you go about it? Is it even possible to discuss it without sounding woke to some people?

>>17950220
>>Most grievous offense was the art department during Black History Month displaying student art of a black woman choking a white woman to death in the lobby of the art college, right front and center

>>17950122 (OP)
It was almost a decade ago, but my History of Africa professor once paused her lecture to rant about what a travesty it is that Republicans refuse to ban guns for no reason.

>>17950298
I see what you're saying and I'm not saying one shouldn't teach that settlers did bad things, what I am saying is, you should teach the full picture. By only (and I mean ONLY) listing bad examples for one group and only good examples of another, one is creating a black world view that is essentially false, although technically true.
Here's the thing, if you need to lie, that shows fear and weakness. Why would you need to lie if you're right?

>>17950352
I see. I am often sympathetic to discussion about historical grievances but even I can admit that there's a problem in how that upon any attempt to give the full picture you might be branded as someone bigoted who's trying to downplay the moralistic points of how certain people are bad for x thing. As a minority myself, however, I don't suffer the same risks of that as much as a White person would though. I guess that's my non-White privilege kek.

I knew what I was signing up for the very first college class I ever took (Anthropology 101) when I bought a nearly 200 dollar textbook from the library. I remember being so excited to read it, like hell yeah, this is gonna be the real deal. instead it was filled with absolute nonsense and cuckery, shit like 'acwktually raves are just like ancient shamanic rituals' and 'youre probably more related to a random person in africa than your own siblings! race isnt real!' the highlight for me was this one chapter that explored the racial dynamics around the king kong movies. the first movie, it claims, is about white man fears that blacks will steal white women. while the 2005 remake of the movie reinterprets it to where black men and white women are allies against white male patriarchy.

>>17950415
Who the fuck wrote that textbook? I can't imagine what sort of academic work they've been doing to end up writing this level of dogshit.

>>17950419
cant remember now but it was the standard textbook in american colleges from 2013 to whatever year, when i moved to california they had the same textbooks. anthropology is one of the biggest meme studies in academia, have fun writing essays about neolithic girl boss huntresses who took down mammoths with their bare hands while men just picked berries or whatever. that and being unemployed

>>17950516
Sounds like anthropology was too based so they filled it with niggers that watch James Cameron movies as research

>>17951156
This guy is Gordon S. Wood, he was the Professor of history at Brown. I watched him give a lecture on Youtube where he told the (completely brown) class the US had no racial or cultural history

My college classes begin with a group prayer

>>17950122 (OP)
I haven't seen this kind of bias at all really. Obviously the professors have their own views but impartiality is regarded as a virtue.

For example, my debate professor was a Jewish chud. The October 7th attacks happened while I was taking his class and we never even talked about it.

>>17950220
one of my profs was an actual self-proclaimed jewish communist (still loves israel) who larps as beria on twitter

>>17951822
One of my profs was an Atheist Jew who went to peace protests and got fired for saying "land acknowledgements" were bullshit virtue signaling political theater. He thought he could get away with it because he kept mentioning "BTW did i mention I'm Jewish" in the op ed

>>17951822
>Jew
>LARPs as a pedophile
The jokes write themselves

>>17950122 (OP)
>Are any of you retards in college?
Law & political science

>How would you describe the political lean of your college’s history or classical arts program?
Law professors are mostly 'intellectual' right-wingers. They mostly base their conservative takes (outside of class) on religion and pragmatic takes iirc. They'll occasionally show it in class but nothing that would hinder the quality of it.
Polsci professors don't show really show their political affiliations except for a monarchist chud (haven't gotten him but so I've heard).
The only 2 notable cases we had was one temp who was some turbo chud congolese guy. He would come to class dressed in traditional african clothing and was obsessed with troons/lgbt.
The other one was a legal history professor who tried inserting feminism at every occasion in his lectures on the ancient legal system in Rome.

Tbf, most professors that I've known have either been pragmatic lefists ("socdem empirically works better"), disillusioned marxists ("if only marxism-leninism could've worked") or religious right-wingers ("Catholic teachings disapprove of x").
The whole culture war/social issues griefing has mostly been, except for a few cases, something left to the students than the professors.

>>17950274
>>17950220
b8 or are american colleges that fucking bad ? Jesus I knew students were mental (as they also are here in my local euro country) but I didn't know american prof were also like that.
Is the american left really that different than ours ?

>>17951932
Where do you think all the Jewish communists went? Hint: they weren't holocausted

>>17950122 (OP)
USA education overrun by leftists

My college's history programs are all extremely left-leaning.