My U.S. history professor said that Che Guevara is a mass murderer and that Lenin wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx. I’d like my tuition refunded.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    My Marxist Sociology TA taught me a valuable lesson

    Sometimes you’re going to be smarter that your professors

    And since your future depends on them giving a good grade, smile, nod politely, gather as much evidence as possible towards academic impropiety and submit it anonymously after finals

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    I learned a trick in Catholic school, entering it at like age 12 when I already had a secular science education. My “biology teacher” insisted that evolution wasn’t real and I got in trouble for constantly questioning her. Instead I let it purify my hate. I could repeat the textbook answers cynically to get the grade, but knowing I was being lied to motivated me to read the truth after class out of spite and reject the lie ideologically. My horticulture degree made me an eco-Marxist because my professors were usually so insufferably liberal that I needed to learn the things they weren’t teaching in defiance of their goals. If I studied history, the most valuable thing I could get from that degree is refining my ability to critically read things with a sense of formal historiography because I hated some professor relying on bad sources to lie to me.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Think of it as communist infiltration and covert agitation training. Get your credits, smile, nod, and learn how to hog talk, talk to your fellow students and subtly undermine the professors narrative with fun facts you coincidentally learned, collect any and all information that can be used against the professor in a dead dropped academic misconduct or impropriety. Of course saying fuck it and finding a different professor is always valid but if you don’t have options try to get your money’s worth and a lesson out of it in some way shape or form

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      That’s a good plan. I’m a couple weeks away from the end of the semester, so yeah, I’m staying.

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      If he had to choose for one group to be eradicated, either the KKK or communists, I do believe he’d choose communists. He makes more excuses for American racism and even Nazi actions than communist mistakes 😭