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. a-little-trolling

  • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    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"?

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Tapping the sign again...

      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.

      back-to-me

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        9 months ago

        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.

      • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        I've seen many historic jade clubs that were used by Maori in the museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_(weapon)

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Nick Cage used the fuck out of his gold-plated pistols in Face/Off, checkmate anthropologists

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      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

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      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.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Because it has probably been literal decades since they did any actual research outside of stewing themselves in newspaper articles.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      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?

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      anthropology and Asian studies professor

      You mean professional blood libeler.