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www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/17/stanfo...hite-male-privilege/
I wonder if the most famous library of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, had such distinguished scholarly entries in its racks?
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I'm not talking about the topic of the discussion, I'm talking about the fact that, of the several thousand academic abstracts that are released each week, Breitbart decided that this rando idea from a professor that is forced to publish in order to maintain his job was worthy of promotion to their front page. What's the agenda on their part to take this completely obscure bullshit line item in the academic record, one not deserving so much as a footnote, and place it front and center before their readership?
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I'm not stinging anyone individually on this but as an academic I am endlessly wearied by having abstracts and titles pulled out of a million other ones that address important or understandable questions and waved in my face. I get it. Academics produce some obscure and not obviously useful stuff amidst the useful stuff they do. Senator Tom Coburn did this every year as he tried to eliminate all NSF funding for political science. It's exhausting and, not just selective, as Sag says, but often he brought out papers that would actually be interesting, if obscure, to know the answer to. He brought out this one NSF grant that was something like "Are politicians responsive to their constituents?" and laughed out loud and said "can you believe this, of course they are!" That is an incredibly non-obvious question, actually, in the corpus of the study of American politics.
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Gary Sax wrote: So the thing about this kind of shit comes down to this: is studying human art and culture fundamentally worthwhile, in and of itself? I know this sounds super reductive but I think we've come to a crossroads with the humanities re: the public. I know what I think the answer is (art matters, the study of art, even obscure shit, is worthwhile), but I increasingly do not know if the public supports it. Or they only support the study of 100+ year old work which are just culture that for some reason is labelled as important?
Especially when a lot of these professors who write shit like the above article rarely do their primary function - TEACH , instead pawning it off on TAs, grad students, etc. I had a class in college taught by two professors, one of whom was an authority in his field, often quoted in newspapers etc. His utterly inept and boring partner taught 90% of the classes while the class fell asleep. I finally tracked him down one day and pretty much shamed into showing up for a few classes.
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Hasn't it always been like this? Had a conversation with the first and only humanities scholar in his family at a wedding reception recently. He said "in my family, there is no one I can have a normal conversation with. Nobody understands what I do, and nobody thinks I should be getting paid."Gary Sax wrote: I think we've come to a crossroads with the humanities re: the public.
Mentioned by Sag before, it could be they have to prioritise, because their job depends on amount of publishing, not quality of teaching.Msample wrote: Especially when a lot of these professors who write shit like the above article rarely do their primary function - TEACH , instead pawning it off on TAs, grad students, etc.
The Breitbart article was interesting on a meta level. Feels like it was just an opportunity to drop a couple of key words for the readers to get mad about. Content-wise, Gygax was a white man, well duh. What exactly is problematic about "half the game’s depicted characters are female"? I would be interested in his reasoning about that "fear of the other" thing, though.
"Hey, let's not lose our grip on that white male privilege thing. I don't care if you have any content, keep 'em coming, no matter what. Let's turn this one into 'they are trying to take away our RPGs next'!"
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Nodens wrote:
Gary Sax wrote: I think we've come to a crossroads with the humanities re: the public.
Mentioned by Sag before, it could be they have to prioritise, because their job depends on amount of publishing, not quality of teaching.Msample wrote: Especially when a lot of these professors who write shit like the above article rarely do their primary function - TEACH , instead pawning it off on TAs, grad students, etc.
Then their job description is flawed IMO. Hell half the "publishing" my profs did was the textbooks they then claimed were necessary for their class.
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Msample wrote:
Nodens wrote:
Gary Sax wrote: I think we've come to a crossroads with the humanities re: the public.
Mentioned by Sag before, it could be they have to prioritise, because their job depends on amount of publishing, not quality of teaching.Msample wrote: Especially when a lot of these professors who write shit like the above article rarely do their primary function - TEACH , instead pawning it off on TAs, grad students, etc.
Then their job description is flawed IMO. Hell half the "publishing" my profs did was the textbooks they then claimed were necessary for their class.
In better departments at research universities, the job should depend on publishing papers in high quality journals. Not just the number of papers. When I was going up for tenure, I was told only 5 journals would count -- everything else was a waste of my time.
We get no credit for publishing textbooks or book chapters, so I mostly avoid them. Additionally, we have a conflict of interest section in our contract that doesn't allow us to use our own textbooks in classes we teach and to also get royalties on the sales --- I would hope that is the case everywhere.
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Reading the coments on the Breitbart article, it's filled with stuff like this
Just another anti-white racist, Western-culture-hating, heterophobic, self-loathing misandrist lefturd.
To borrow their terms, Jesus Christ what a bunch of triggered snowflakes.
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that meme is frickin' perfect tho
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Clearly it was the blinding pallidity of my ivory meatsheath.
PS: that is the most masturbated-to image in all of D&Ddom. I know I contributed greatly to that statistic. It is no coincidence that Succubus rhymes with Fuck ya fist
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