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Jul. 8th, 2020 | 07:16 pm
Single twit, few words made a group of certain students feel unsafe.
Also put it into the context of having people bashed, businesses robbed, houses burned and children killed during the "protests", - all this real violence is not supposed to make anyone feel unsafe, but safer!
This amazing upside-down worldview is what our universities create nowadays, thanks to the postmodernist technology of mindfuck.
What this mindfuck does in practice, - it actually allows you to look for dissidents; these insolent dudes who are not sharing the same ideology as the ruling Party adheres to.
Any joke against Comrade Stalin, any critical voice - and the entire ruling Party feels "unsafe"; the whole neural network of student activists starts sending signals and keeps sending 'em until the threat of divergent idea is eliminated.
Was Comrade Stalin as a person that fragile that he cannot take a joke? No, that's the wrong idea to start with. But the position of Comrade Stalin as a dictator was fragile indeed; there were plenty of people more qualified for the job, and the job itself was a fragile construct hanging by a thread of false ideological presuppositions.
If everyone is allowed to smear Stalin with jokes, he is not a glorious icon of the Communism, he is not much more than an ugly criminal and should not be on a podium, but in prison.
Which justifies hunting down the dissident and putting him in Gulag.
Same with George Floyd and BLM. The students are not THAT fragile, but their positions are. And they are in the universities only thanks to affirmative action and quotas. So they will channel their positions being unsafe and their political careers threatened into this witch-hunt. Also, it is much more fun than doing any actual study or work, which was also true for Soviet communists.
The key problem underpinning this situation is the presence of students on campuses who won't be there if solely their academic worth was considered. They are installed there by revolutionary forces, i.e. by the political will of the previous generation of activists and the current bureaucrats who are making sure that quotas and the whole affirmative action skews the meritocratic system into something else.
Why not to skew it even further, into a pure communist landscape of fake equality and unchallenged Party rule?
https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshap
Also put it into the context of having people bashed, businesses robbed, houses burned and children killed during the "protests", - all this real violence is not supposed to make anyone feel unsafe, but safer!
This amazing upside-down worldview is what our universities create nowadays, thanks to the postmodernist technology of mindfuck.
What this mindfuck does in practice, - it actually allows you to look for dissidents; these insolent dudes who are not sharing the same ideology as the ruling Party adheres to.
Any joke against Comrade Stalin, any critical voice - and the entire ruling Party feels "unsafe"; the whole neural network of student activists starts sending signals and keeps sending 'em until the threat of divergent idea is eliminated.
Was Comrade Stalin as a person that fragile that he cannot take a joke? No, that's the wrong idea to start with. But the position of Comrade Stalin as a dictator was fragile indeed; there were plenty of people more qualified for the job, and the job itself was a fragile construct hanging by a thread of false ideological presuppositions.
If everyone is allowed to smear Stalin with jokes, he is not a glorious icon of the Communism, he is not much more than an ugly criminal and should not be on a podium, but in prison.
Which justifies hunting down the dissident and putting him in Gulag.
Same with George Floyd and BLM. The students are not THAT fragile, but their positions are. And they are in the universities only thanks to affirmative action and quotas. So they will channel their positions being unsafe and their political careers threatened into this witch-hunt. Also, it is much more fun than doing any actual study or work, which was also true for Soviet communists.
The key problem underpinning this situation is the presence of students on campuses who won't be there if solely their academic worth was considered. They are installed there by revolutionary forces, i.e. by the political will of the previous generation of activists and the current bureaucrats who are making sure that quotas and the whole affirmative action skews the meritocratic system into something else.
Why not to skew it even further, into a pure communist landscape of fake equality and unchallenged Party rule?
https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshap
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date: Jul. 8th, 2020 - 11:31 am
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date: Jul. 8th, 2020 - 09:58 pm
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It never was meritocratic, unfortunately -- I mean, in the US. Originally Harvard etc. were just gentlemen clubs, purely class-based, with no regad whatsoever to academic achievement and devoted purely to social networking and the like. Eventually they had to become more like real-life universities but the transformation was never complete. They were discriminating against first Jews, then Asians all the time, and not for the sake of blacks but for the sake of whites: WASP admissions had to be kept above 50% whatever it costs, otherwise the whole system would collapse (because a university needs rich alumni). In this context, affirmative action is not as unjustifiable as it sounds: if we promote whites on purely social grounds, why not do the same for some other inherently stupid population groups? -- it's only fair, and it solves the race problem by reducing the gap.
Whether it is working is another question entirely (probably not, or at least ot anymore).
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date: Jul. 9th, 2020 - 01:29 am
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Government funding requires full meritocracy to justify its flow, full stop. Which was a declared target until fairly recent times. Any affirmative action, gender or race-based is a thinly veiled revolutionary activity.
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date: Jul. 9th, 2020 - 02:39 am
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Not really -- look at the bizarre admission system -- and certainly not in practice; discrimination against Asians and/or Jews never stopped.
That's the problem actually. Some kind of in-built hypocrisy in the whole system. Affirmative action has a really minor effect compared to this; accepting whites who should not be there is much worse (because there's much more of them).
But then, woke is a white thing anyway, isn't it?
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date: Jul. 9th, 2020 - 03:36 am
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date: Jul. 9th, 2020 - 01:33 am
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