I am very far along in my academic career. I have just once piece of advice: don't fight your professor's ideology. The third time I had to go the dean of the department to complain about my professor giving me poor marks because they disagreed with politically was the last time, because now I just write whatever shitty paper they want. It's easier, it will save you from getting retaliated against, and it doesn't matter.
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Haha I had a class about US-LatAm Relationships in the 20th Century, taught by a CIA historian. I don't know I didn't end up biting right through my tongue.
Trying to fight in classes or persuade them or whatever is a total waste of time, but if there is legitimate grading discrimination, I won't tell people they "should" fight it because that depends on circumstances, but there is value in it imo because that's a grotesque abuse of power that violates the policy of most universities. I had some extremely shitty reactionary professors, including easily one of the most disgusting people I've met in real life, but I never lost more than maybe a couple points for representing myself as a communist, if I even lost a couple points, because they either had some sense of professionalism or at least understood that it could get them in trouble.
This is mostly true, but one of the professors that I've had issues with ended up giving my contested marks back and then nitpicking the rest of work to death within the bounds of the rubrics. I ended up withdrawing. It just isn't worth it. Nobody is going to read my papers after I finish the course.
I will repeat that there are factors I have no means of accounting for that can readily make it not worth it, but my point isn't about your papers or my papers or whatever, but about how these reactionaries go on to treat other students (and maybe just damaging their reputation to the administration, at least on the level of competence, because fuck them).
Yeah I am not taking this class too seriously and I am purposefully pretending I am not a communist lol. My GPA is more important than being right atm
It does present an opportunity to spread ideology among your classmates. "Can you believe the professor is making us read this bullshit?" and other conversation starters to steer things towards socialism. Then you can drop a "Oh by the way if you want to know more come to my org. Others would appreciate your thoughts on this nonsense."
Otherwise, don't be that guy who wastes class time arguing with the instructor. You aren't the first nor will you be the last communist/lib/progressive/whatever the professor has encountered. Get the credits and move on. If your school has evaluations at the end of the term, that's also a good place to bring down the hammer.
Lol, I am not nearly confident enough to argue with a professor. People who do that are crazy to me.
Argue that everything depicted in the book was cool and good, and that only a low-T soy SJW would disagree with the strong dominating the weak.
Or don't, I went to trade school so idk
Oh he isn't that kind of anticommunist. He's the smug "communist just don't understand economics" type
unserious
it's werthless
whuttaboutery
anything to keep the discussion off of the very real PRESENT prison conditions in the heavily racialized American system
Georgia man found dead in bed bug-infested jail cell died of 'severe neglect': Independent autopsy
LaShawn Thompson died in the Fulton County Jail on Sept. 13, 2022.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-man-found-dead-bed-bug-infested-jail/story?id=99506592
but I am sure we can draw no systemic conclusions about capitalism from that
I'd also like to know, heard about it from someones dad who is into history but is maga, but also was in a relationship with someone who's poc, ethnic, idk... Doesn't really matter now that he's been kicked to the curb for cheating, and for some reason hes got a hammer sic tat.
Hearing what I had it sounded like it failed because of the reactionaries that where trapped on the island and or corruption from the soldiers tasked with resupply. Idk though and I'm not sure I'd be given a fair interpretation or framing of it from Mr maga communism