We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605
Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as "rad" and "totally awesome as fuck" -- that's truly sick.
And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. 
I teach Anthropology&Asian studies @Cornell ; fmr Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy Beijing. Views my own
lol fking asian studies professor too lol
This is the level that western academia is on lol
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Of course this racist behold the masterrace look-alike mofo is an asian studies prof.
How do you hire a non-Asian Asian studies professor
i got my phd in hentaiMy East Asian studies prof was the WASPiest mfer on the planet, but even though he was a lib he was very cool: fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean (like actually fluent, as in he published academic papers in all three languages), and really emphasized how China had strong laws to protect minority ethnic groups (e.g. exemptions from the one-child policy, explicit affirmative action, proportional representation, and language preservation efforts).
White Chinese studies mfers are either:
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wierd sinophiles who are big fans of china and the CPC (oddly enough alot of these are libs that are inexplicably pro-china)
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the most sinophobic and racist mfers to walk the earth
no middle ground
wierd sinophiles who are big fans of china and the CPC (oddly enough alot of these are libs that are inexplicably pro-china)
so, pretty much this website?
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"When western academia sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing orientalism. They’re bringing imperialism. They’re colonisers. And some, I assume, are good people."
I'm trying to imagine a professor who's "approachable and easygoing" and yet frequently goes off on tangents about the devious chinese brainpan. How rabid of a racist do you need to be before Ivy League students start to dislike you on a personal level?
rabid racism is precisely what they look for to teach an asian studies course in an ivy
Surprised those are still up. I had a comment removed for the most bland statement saying a prof was racist. Was very funny that a year later his ass was kicked out (temporarily because fuck America) for making the dumbest comments possible during 2020.
How can you be an anthropology and Asian studies professor, see these frilly edges and the ornamentation and the fact that it is made from fucking jade and think "yeah, the ancestors of the evil Chinese CeeCeePee absolutely used these to behead people"?
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The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.
it's actually oxidized bronze, not that that supports a beheading usecase, it'd still suck for that.
looking up the viability of jade weaponry was kind of interesting though, they've found some axes & knifes, it's supposed to be a very hard rock---so you probably could make an execution tool out of it.
Jade was valued for its malleability, similar to gold in that way. There were all sorts of ceremonial weapons made out of jade, for instance a jade saber would be awarded to distinguished scholars.
I've seen many historic jade clubs that were used by Maori in the museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_(weapon)
How can anyone look at any ornamental weapon and assume it's used for anything other than looking nice? The only ceremonial weapons that I know about that were used as killing implements were sometimes frou-frou fancy boys would have elaborately engraved flintlock pistols.
Nick Cage used the fuck out of his gold-plated pistols in Face/Off, checkmate anthropologists
why bother working or caring about intellectual honesty when you can just parrot the latest state department line and fail upwards? Nation of grifters and thieves
If you're an anthropologist and you want to get a job that pays out of college your options are becoming a mercenary for empire or bank robbery. There's a lot of scum in the profession.
Because it has probably been literal decades since they did any actual research outside of stewing themselves in newspaper articles.
Fuck being a professor, how can you have even the most superficial idea of how an axe works and think this thing was actually used to chop things?
anthropology and Asian studies professor
You mean professional blood libeler.
Damn, imagine living in a country that values its violent history. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to play my favorite video game, Red Dead Redemption 2.
That game is actually good for a western because it acknowledges that westward expansion is genocidal. And it shows that escalating brutality is directly correlated with escalating presence of Pinkertons and cops.
It's still a mass murder simulator though. Like spray painting "this is critical satire" on the side of my killdozer
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People fetishizing kids with assault rifles on hands - woa that's great because we are protecting ourselves.
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Haha the axe got a smiling face - horrifying face of a culture built on violence.
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What a crack pot.
Like the same could be said of the Christian crucifix or countless other things....
"Feudal China killed people!!!"
"as did the Vikings, and all civilizations, but that's no reason to abandon the study of history."If China shows pre-communist, feudal history, then it's propaganda to make the party look good. But if they don't show pre-communist history, then they're authoritarians trying to erase the past
Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as "rad" and "totally awesome as fuck"
Those seaside villages were Br*tish though? Critical support???
uhm actually they weren't british and the concept of a greater british identity wouldn't exist in the era of viking raids across europe 
I love that I live in the timeline where any mouth breathing dumbass can just inject their idiocy straight into my eyeballs
It's wild seeing stuff that was actually made by skilled craftspeople and realize "aw man we actually don't even get better shit now we just get more expensive shit that's 1/10th of the quality"
Enshitificiation has been going on for a while.
"Yeah, Dunk Tank hall of fame? Do I got a banger of a tweet to report to you today"I feel like it's important here to note that Swedish State Media has used Magnus Fiskesjö as an "expert" to comment on news stories about China on numerous occasions.
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