beginning to suspect that everyone reporting on these protests for the new york times has just woken up from a 150-year-long coma www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/u...
wait are u telling me students at university are parroting back terms their liberal profes*puts finger to ear* I'm being told this is called getting an education
Yes well I was never a pretentious college student don’t know how overachieving kids who’ve been rewarded their whole lives for not being able to act their age ever got the idea they’ll be taken more seriously if they use big words and talk about abstract concepts they may not fully understand.
I guess I’m not being clear here that I’m not trying to be condescending, I’m speaking from my own experience as a college kid who liked to quote whatever post-structuralist I was reading at the time. I guess I probably BASICALLY understood everything but also it’s ok if they don’t.
i get your drift it's just a little off-base from the article citing "imperialism" and "colonialism," which are neither academic terms nor in any way abstract. kids throwing around half-digested concepts from foucault or baudrillard otoh (de rigueur when i was in school), there i'm with you
These are terms that circulate among students trying to make sense of the world.
My experience in class is they come in with this language, often over-generalized, and I have to push for precision and care. They're not getting it *from* me.
"Intersectionality" is a term they've latched onto for overlapping systems of power. It may sound pretentions and hypersyllabic to us old folks, but it's their way of trying to address political complexities.
That sounds like it was written from a time when people may have been referred to as salty, ie, salty curmudgeon..
On the other hand, the explanation about colonialism et al. and its implications, was correct.
