I mean, I knew it all along, and never really expected anything else, but it’s one thing to know it, and another to be expected to act it out in the real world on a day to day basis, to take them seriously, to treat them as some paragons of wisdom and virtue. I just feel the flow of the void streaming from their mouths when they speak. How in the hell did you end up an authority over all of us when all you did was get a scholarship from your uncle and then regurgitate some talking points?
No, Professor Smith, what you just said is literal war propaganda, but if I question you, not only will you ignore it, there’s also a non-zero chance you might fail me or otherwise make my life difficult.
Sometimes I point the especially egregious shit like by AP Gov’s teacher’s takes on the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis, but given he disbelieved what I said, I usually just ignore it
if you’re at a us liberal arts college there’s leftish organizations on your campus
How the fuck do you deal
I generally mold my work and professed opinions into exactly what they want and expect, regardless of how I actually feel. I deconverted while still attending Catholic school and being immersed in the religious community, so I have a lot of experience in using doublethink and duplicity to appease authority I can’t escape. I thought when I left home I would finally be able to stop faking all the time, but it seems you never really get to the part of life where that happens. First it’s your professors, and then it’s your boss.
My anthropological theory professor is a chud, which was really surprising and disappointing to me because anthropology as a whole is a more left-leaning discipline, my textbook for that class even includes a section from Marx’s The German Ideology.
The professor has said in class that whenever he sees someone wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt he wants to punch them in the face so I just avoid saying anything in class even though we are graded on class participation because I don’t want him to realize that I’m a communist.
I really wish I could have a professor that would just teach the material objectively without injecting their dogshit political opinions into every lecture but the anthropology department at my school is really small so I have no other choice. I just try to learn what I can from the lectures and readings and just disregard the professor’s stupid political asides.
Honestly not surprised at cultural anthropology having some chud professors. Some of them have white savior complexes because it originated as a white savior discipline.
edit: and tons of anthroplogists are complicit in destroying local ecosystems with their knowledge of benefits of plants for certain medicines, which in turn destroys indigenous communities.
lol just wait til you take econ 101. i got in an argument on day 1 and realized real quick this shit just ain’t worth it.
i remember a lot of my liberal professors in history/social sciences actually seemed to appreciate how radical i was. i think it was refreshing to them to see someone so radicalized when most kids were just jumping through hoops and not thinking too deeply about things
