Can someone from the USA explain to me why the fuck "conservatives" think they are victims of discrimination and an...

The humanities are "dying" because they aren't being funded, because everyone from the president on down is pushing STEM bullshit. Instead schools are funding a) athletics and b) STEM, because if they get a lab set up with some Chinese students and can dupe the state or a think tank into giving them money it means millions more dollars that won't come in because a talented student wrote a book critiquing the class interactions in Harry Potter or whatever.

It's all about money you fucking idiot. Schools don't give a shit about their Humanties department because it's a money hole, and if I had to guess I'd say the actual conspiracy was to discredit them with this idpol bullshit so that they can justify making deeper and deeper cuts.

t. Humanities student

Dear Engels, give me strength.

Under that definition the USSR is equally culpable in the crime of identity politics.

You aren't making an effective fucking critique of it. You can "go over" the same thing twenty times but you're not only not obeying your own definition, you're seemingly entrapped by it.

Actually the history of identity in America culturally happens to be different than the history of identity in Europe, and separate European states all have different histories tied to identities.

There is such a thing as a national identity as well.

Did Noah Webster hurt you when you were a child? Were you crippled by a falling collection of Shakespeare's plays? What was it that motivated you to wage this war on spelling and grammar, you heathen?

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Most tenure-track professors are part of a secret clique that is run by Zionists. They can't be fired, because how you gonna find another professor worthy of tenure?

Microaggression is a real problem. Black people don't want you touching their hair or commenting that she's pretty for a fat girl or laughing when an Asian needs help with math homework.

I think people are naturally hostile to a fancy word for what amounts to basic decent behavior when it comes to Holocausts