Would you take this man’s graduate level “white backlash” course?

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Would you take this man’s graduate level “white backlash” course?

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I thought this was a bronz thread for a second

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

On an intellectual level, I hate the idea of "Activist History." Considering that's his bio, I'm gonna go with no.

Also, this is a very random human to make a poll about.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

On an intellectual level, I hate the idea of "Activist History." Considering that's his bio, I'm gonna go with no.

Also, this is a very random human to make a poll about.

Hey man, it’s a slow work week.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

no

[Mr. Reactionary]

11 years ago at W&M I had a class on the history of black people and women in Virginia. Our final exam essay was to explain how rich white men are responsible for all of Virginia's problems. I got an A- .

[Mopsus]

Why is that white man afraid of being governed by other white people? What a strange fixation!

[HisGrace]

my students asked me if I thought the U.S. would descend into a civil war during the next decade. I replied that the current situation is much more bleak than that.

Good lord what a drama queen.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

my students asked me if I thought the U.S. would descend into a civil war during the next decade. I replied that the current situation is much more bleak than that.

Good lord what a drama queen.

One of his reasons for U.S. "descending into a civil war" is voter ID! This dude is nuts! And he's a PhD professor in a highly ranked graduate school. Academia isn't sending their best.

[Former President tack50]

As someone who is currently doing "grad school" (sort of, we don't really have an equivalent to US grad school); not in a million years.

Indeed my curriculum does not feature anything even remotely similar to that, not even as a elective! (In fact all classes are directly related to the contents of my grad program, with even the least related classes being at least tangentially related to it, or being broad enough that they are somewhat applicable).

Though presumably that class is intended for Sociology students or something so I would not be the target audience anyways.

[HillGoose]

no if i took a graduate level course i would want it to be on stochastic processes 😍😍😍

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

All you need to do is watch this and you'll be good.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How did this genre of "Twitter threads" where long strings of by-design-very-short messages are brute-forced into full-length pseudoessays become an acceptable way of making ostensibly serious arguments, and how can we get people to cut it out?

[HisGrace]

How did this genre of "Twitter threads" where long strings of by-design-very-short messages are brute-forced into full-length pseudoessays become an acceptable way of making ostensibly serious arguments, and how can we get people to cut it out?

Probably just get rid of Twitter.

[Xing]

It'd probably be more entertaining than reading through Twitter, if we're being honest.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How did this genre of "Twitter threads" where long strings of by-design-very-short messages are brute-forced into full-length pseudoessays become an acceptable way of making ostensibly serious arguments, and how can we get people to cut it out?

Probably just get rid of Twitter.

Yes, if Trump were actually the voice crying in the wilderness when it comes to big tech that his supporters like to claim he is, he would have threatened to ban the app whose business model is all-but-explicitly predicated on shredding our society, rather than the one that credulous teenagers use to post dumb dances and overshare about their "s3ggs" lives.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I remember when a classmate took a breadth course that was very similar to this one almost a decade ago. He recounted to me the things that he had been told and we were both horrified, because we did not know that courses like that existed. That was a much more innocent time overall.

     To answer the topic question, hard no.

[Donerail]

How did this genre of "Twitter threads" where long strings of by-design-very-short messages are brute-forced into full-length pseudoessays become an acceptable way of making ostensibly serious arguments, and how can we get people to cut it out?

Guys. It's time for some game theory.

[GregTheGreat657]

11 years ago at W&M I had a class on the history of black people and women in Virginia. Our final exam essay was to explain how rich white men are responsible for all of Virginia's problems. I got an A- .

I also tell teachers what they want to hear

[GregTheGreat657]

No (sane, normal)

[Person Man]

no if i took a graduate level course i would want it to be on stochastic processes 😍😍😍

Which is the basis of what could become, with Emergence Theory, the mathematical basis of modern alchemy.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

11 years ago at W&M I had a class on the history of black people and women in Virginia. Our final exam essay was to explain how rich white men are responsible for all of Virginia's problems. I got an A- .

I also tell teachers what they want to hear

To be fair to Mr. Reactionary's professor, if there's one state in the Union of which this is almost indisputably true...