I just had the first day of class and he kept going on about how he prefers to call capitalism "the free market" and kept calling covid the "Chinese communist virus". Which is weird to me because he is familiar with Marx and some of his lecture talked about modes of production, etc.
I'm debating whether I want to keep taking the class or not; on the one hand I think it's good to be exposed to different perspectives for the sake of critical thinking, but on the other hand I don't want to waste my time and money taking a class from a professor who is so blatantly biased and wastes so much time in class sharing his political opinions.
Yea I should probably do this, the dude has tenure though and I live in a right wing state so I don't know if anything will come out of it.
Worth doing anyway, it's not like it's going to take a lot of time to file a report.
That course sounds like a complete waste of time, best case result he will waste a lot of your time giving you the same "free markets bruh!" indoctrination that passes for economics education in the west. Worst case result is that during the constant assault of right wing arguments a few will slip through (we've seen the same happen with anti china sentiment even on this site) and bury themselves as "truths" in your mind keeping you from looking at the world clearly.
I would clearly drop out of the course and spend your money better else where. Any youtube video by Richard Wolf, Mark Blyth or David Harvey will give you a better grasp of economic fundamentals. Maybe even lookup online courses held by some of these people?
You have the right, once per degree, of challenging any other anthropologist to an atlatl duel to the death. If you win you inherit their position, titles, and publications. This is the law.
Graeber has a couple wack ideas and goes on very little sometimes. He also wrote some theory where he cited a documentary series as his source for ideas usually credited to Sartre. He's a weird dude, and Polyani and Sahlins are probably a better starting place for specifically an anthro major.
Must be that Marxist indoctrination in the schools these days!
I'd drop it and take a class from a non-chud. If you want to be exposed to right-wing horseshit you can get that for free elsewhere.
I don't understand how this person is teaching economic/political anthropology. The school was probably desperate to fill out their Both Sides Quota, and this chud was the only non-leftist they could find haha
I'd honestly switch out. There are probably a lot more interesting anth profs you have access to right now o7
this is a quote from my first day back at class lmao
if you work hard and you do not get credit for your ideas, you are stupid
love this country 🙃
I've had profs like that and tbh its easy marks if your assignments are all just dunking on neolibs (even if you do it from the left). If it's a required course I'd say just get high or play games in class and focus on assignments rather than actually listening to the propaganda: I've found trying to take the courses at different times or from different profs can sometimes fuck up your schedule/entire degree progression. If it's an elective just don't bother with it; take something you'll enjoy or actually learn from.
That's a valid reason to drop the class or switch to a different section imo. If you're not going to learn anything from the chud diversity hire, why waste your time?
Modes of production is mainstream because of Sahlins, he may not realize it's an althusserian idea.
Also where did you find a chud cultural anthropologist?
Most red fascists are familiar with Marx and Lenin and will quote them and uphold them to trick you. They might even claim to be perfect Stalinists, but they can’t completely hide their fascist tendencies from the Maoist vibe check. This one is just a reactionary little fascist shit. He has no authority over you.
You should record him and confront him. This is unacceptable sinophobia and racism and either he has to go or you do... The students are the ones that need to educate him.
Professors and students have a master-slave dialectical relationship and you are absolutely justified in putting these motherfucking fascists through the Cultural Revolution
(lol at “tankies” downvoting because they seriously thought reading ML theory and yelling at teenage anarchists for a few years was enough to escape the Red Guards and the rest of the spectre that now haunts them, the thought of getting called out for fashy shit is really scary to these bougie fucks, maybe try criticism and self-criticism sessions, gang!)
