I advocated lockdowns combined with strong social safety net protections and a thorough testing regime and the person still said "yeah but the other effects." When I pressed as to what effects, they said "well children won't be able to socialize." Like yeah.... that's bad, but you know what else can effect a child's mental health: mommy/daddy/granpa/grandma/etc dying from a totally preventable pathogen.... Jesus and this person is in "academia" doing anthro and shit....

    • queenjamie [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I'm curious, what's your experience in academia? Like what do most people believe? MSNBC shit? "Evo Morales bAd" kinda stuff?

      • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        it varies by uni and individual.

        lots of critiques of "power" but doing a full on marxist analysis is often frowned on, or seen as reductive.

        honestly, the anthros are usually better than the polisci or middle eastern studies. I once had a masters student tell me that democracy was wrong, that not everyone should be able to vote (this was around first trump election).

        in my cohort specifically (5 of us), it's me a hardcore marxist, a racist lib, a well-meaning lib (bio), a kinda braindead lib (bernie supporter), and a woman who is pretty lib, but did her research in India/Bangladesh and came back a communist.

        others in my program run the gamut, but it's very lib heavy, but like progresive lib, so huge bernie types, some liz/hillary types. a tiny minority of chuds.

        academia as a whole in USA is a scam. social sciences/liberal arts specifically.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          academia as a whole in USA is a scam. social sciences/liberal arts specifically

          Aw man, I know that's true (being an anthro undergrad) but I really want to go back into acedemia to rub some 'lived experience' of years of actual factory work in their faces. A boring fantasy to be sure.

          • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            yeah, I also worked in a factory (meat packing) for a bit too, which people find "interesting".

            I am from a solid poor background. Grew up in the poorest county in my state, and while obviously had privileges, money from my family wasn't really one of them. All but one of my grad school friends come from rich families (parents have PhDs, doctors, etc).

            like thankfully most of the leftist ones are doing what they can to try to counteract that. but it's still so frustrating sometimes...

        • queenjamie [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          lots of critiques of “power” but doing a full on marxist analysis is often frowned on, or seen as reductive.

          :maduro-katana-2: