Are modern western universities really woke?Can you really not find English or Sociology professors that lean right? Do no dissertations get defended if they shill for Orthodox Christianity or Evola memes?I'm just curious of how much of a scam the Peterson Academy is.
>>18475658The bar for "leftist" is placed lower by chuds every single day so it's completely meaningless.
>>18475658My local university in Sweden where I am currently studying history is very leftist. One of my lecturers is a literal self-described marxist. He's very good at his job, but it becomes so obvious what he wants us to 'focus on' during seminars and different projects.My other lecturers and professors are surprisingly neutral and often have an obvious dislike for communism (from an academic perspective).The university overall is extremely left. You see 100 LGBT flags and pantings everywhere (and not a single Swedish flag). I've seen a lot of trans which I have otherwise never seen in the real world. A lot of people who dress 'individualistically'. Casaual conversations that you hear is always about how Trump is the next Hitler and fucking whatnot.
>>18475721That's interesting.
>>18475715it objectively means no trannies and feminists
>>18475721well you live in Sweden, no shit.anyways, there's even literature on why, but most of what I have only applies to American universities, so I'm afraid I cannot comment further.
>>18475658>Are modern western universities really woke?Some of them are absolutely politically captive, but the majority ought to be described as merely paying lip service.>Can you really not find English or Sociology professors that lean right? Do no dissertations get defended if they shill for Orthodox Christianity or Evola memes?You definitely can, especially for literature. It's harder for sociology but not impossible. The issue is that "leaning right" might ot look the same as being a /pol/tard.In regard to dissertation topics the issue is more finding a professor willing to let you do a thesis on whatever the fuck you want rather than what he wants (usually something related to his current research). In regard to defenses it's basically just a formality. It is expected that the biggest expert on the dissertation's topic in the whole uni is you and the second biggest your supervisor, so the commission barely even bothers to engage you.>I'm just curious of how much of a scam the Peterson Academy is.Never heard of it. If it's related to the crying meme guy I'd expect it to be ass.
Marx, lenin and mao constitute the holy trinity in contemporary humanities academia about whom not a single critical word is to be uttered. The problem with marxists infiltrating humanities academia 100% started in the 50s. Today the situation is even worse than it's ever been because modern humanities students can't even read. So you have extreme ideological gleichschaltung compounded with illiteracy.
>>18476111The problem with humanities academia is that it's so abstract and subjective. It's purely strucutred on perspective and interpretations, and because of that it cannot prevent political infiltration to seep through.
>>18475721>A lot of people who dress 'individualistically"All right I'll bite, wtf does this even mean? Furries running wild around the campus?
>>18476133Here Peterson brings up an old Robotics problem, like what is the driving force behind an object representation.The fix was Heideggerian, that your motor function and functionality categorizes the object, hence both a chair and a nice tree stump are the same category despite different visuals.
Just go to some Christian College in the middle of Florida if you want "non-woke" education.
>>18475658In the UK my experience is that shitlibbery is so strong that anyone who even mildly disagrees knows to stfu around white middle class people who make up the majority of academia as both students and professors.
>>18475658Western universities are absolutely woke, and the Peterson Academy is most likely a scam.
>>18476162Not him but I can imagine it's like my university where you have lots of retards dressing like this. I'd never seen someone like this in the wild either. Very first class I had, was someone with a bunch of fish hooks in his face who identified as trans.
>>18475715The Woke Mind Virus has ironically only infected annoyingly opinianated midwit self-proclaimed "right-wingers" (as broad and general and weak a definition as left-winger)Partisan politics have lost their usefulness for the average person, but hasn't lost it's meaning unfortunately.Get out of twitter. This shit doesn't matter. This doesn't mean nothing ever happens, it does, it just doesn't follow the simplistic utopian and dystopian visions you see retards shouting. The important movements are boring, they don't generate discourse, nor impell uou to name-call your neighbors fascist and communist. And those movements are mostly the realm of academics, even if they always too have their own biases.
>>18476111Oh and this guy lying. Being left doesn't mean being a commie. If one of my professors started talking positively of those figures, specially Mao, he would get a lot, and I mean an entire class of left-leaning people, to give him weird looks.This is a complete myth. Even from left-leaning professor (every one), there's hardly a single class that goes by without Marx getting shat on. Of course that happens, he wrote shit in the XIX, his distance to the bourgeois and reactionaries of the same century he critices is much smaller than he would like to admit. Although, if you do say that Marx was "a bad person", you would het the same looks. But nothing more than that. One of my professors literally does that every single class. "Marx never entered a damn historical archive in his life." "Marx, who knew shit about history, said..." Sometimes, he reffers to the class as a colective and his descendants, as a way to directly critice us, as he does with the enligtenmengt, the french revolution...And you know what? Even the literal, unapologetic, brainless trostkyites in my class love him, because he knows his shit.Academia is inquisitorial, but you can literally ignore the inquisitors. They have no power, as much as they try saying they have. The professors, even with their biases, have the maturity to know that's not a problem, it's natural, and won't follow students into that, at the very least because of professionalism. It's difficult to support those radical students when you teach them and can't get caught in their office politics-level bullshit who would destroy your career.HERES THE THING: you can go to academia, right now, and be right wing. People aren't going to like you, specially if you an actual far-right scrub (not just liberal or conservative, actually just far-right), but nobody can physically get you out of there unless you break a law (easier than you expect if you open your mouth everytime a trans person passes by).
>>18475974So we just have to discriminate against half of the human population because they were born female?We are required to undermine their achievements, ignore their opinions and objectify their bodies like they are savages with no souls?
>>18476162Not him but he's likely referring to genuine weirdos, who can be expected to be part of the faculty in most universities.Off the top of my mind my uni had a professor of anthropology that never removed her wide brim hat from her head, inside or outside, yearround and a professor of histology who must have been at least 65 with commie red hair so neglected you could see two inches worth of iron grey roots.
>>18476385I have a center-right friend in History, he is basically the class mascot. I'm catholic, which is conservative to the eyes of people there, and I constantly get into fights with my closest friend on definitions of shit like fascism, that he likes bandying around as if it was a tool, but I can agree on brainless, idiotically basic takes like "inequality is bad". Why the contrarianism when disagreeing with those sorts of things? Do you have to throw a fit every time you hear something that basic? And I mean throwing a fit, I don't mean saying "it's more complicated than that", everyone, even the most left-commie who ever commie'd, knows it's more complicated than that, but let's at least agree, on a fundamental level, that's a problem, and we need some way to fix it? We are much, much more similar than we think. Left and right midwits think they are fighting a war. You aren't. The fucking race or class war is not starting tomorrow, you don't need to walk with people that only agree with you.
>>18476354>it... le.... doesn't matter...Poweful. Now go shove that fence post up your ass.
>>18476390Yes honey, that's exactly what we're saying. Now go topless and spray paint #patriarchy on your chest and stand outside the capitol screaming all day.
>>18475658About half of my professors were open marxists, so you decide.
>>18475658>Are modern western universities really woke?Woke is a meaningless term that can mean basically anything, so it'll depend on what you count as woke. In my experience most students typically lean left but the actual academica and staff are a mix. Most students are typically young people who are leaving their home communities and friends for the first time, they often seek to redefine themselves and can go a bit crazy doing so. Hence why it's pretty common to find extreme politics among them. >I'm just curious of how much of a scam the Peterson Academy is.It's a complete scam. It's essentially paying stupid money for some shitty YouTube video essays
>>18476429Theres a difference between the David Harvey type 'Marxism' and modern blue hair 'Marxism'.
>>18476587The latter are just the useful idiots of the former.
>>18476111>you can't criticize mao zedong at college campusesWhy do you fags just egregiously lie like this?
>>18476111>>18476385>>18476619Mao was objectively less Marxist than the US in the 1950s.
>>18476627>Marxism is when niggers can voteThis just waters down the definition of Marxism instead of convincing normies to be racist.
>>18476627So the US, during the period when McCarthyism was in full swing, was akshually MARXIST, because they wanted to integrate niggers? Interesting perspective.
>>18475658>Can you really not find English or Sociology professors that lean rightNo because right wingers are stupid and illiterate.
>>18475658The humanities are pretty much entirely captured ideologically. I thought it was a meme, even in undergrad, until I got to the higher levels and realized that they really do try to exclude anybody who could potentially threaten their ideological grip.
>>18476756But why arent they doing anything with their iron grip
>>18476627>I'm not obsessed
>>18476756Also another insight from Academia:Academics are controlling and petty af. Imagine Reddit mods but with actual institutional power. A lot of them hate the current system not because capitalism is le bad, but because they aren’t the ones running it. I would rather live under some libertarian meme society where I have to pay money to use the sidewalk than live in an academic controlled society (not that either would be good)>>18476762Could you explain further?
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>>18476762They're doing plenty. Their system is churning out armies of pink-haired foot soldiers.
>>18476756>>18476779>I got to the higher levels and realized that they really do try to exclude anybody who could potentially threaten their ideological grip.Do you have any examples?
>>18475658>Are modern western universities really woke?Oftentimes the students are annoyingly political (depends on the location though) but the professors tend to be just nerds who obsess over whatever crap they teach. I studied history at a notoriously commie-infested university and despite all the buzz and propaganda that some students pushed, the professors were usually just being autistic in class over Byzantine art or medieval Iberian architecture.
>>18475658They better be if Trump is going to insist "Smart people don't like me"
