I had to take a basic govt in college and it was incoherent af. The guy teaching was awful at hiding his conservative bias and basically explained everything in the most baby brained conservative way possible.
We also did some political compass level shit about political ideologies in America, I can’t remember exactly how it was described, i think fiscal and social liberal on side and conservative of those on the other. Basically the quadrants were liberal, conservative, populist (as a ideology unto itself), and some other one I can’t remember maybe/probably libertarianism?
Awful. I wish the political compass could be erased from the American psyche. The best way to describe the ideology of most Americans is "selfish and incoherent"
I had a course like that in college where early on the professor outlined that there are 5 political ideologies in America: liberals, conservatives, libertarians (she added Objectivists next to it), "technologists", and Muslims.
It was completely idiosyncratic to her and weird as shit. I got an A in the course so whatever.
the gall to identify islam as a distinct, monolithic political identity but remain completely oblivious to the christian theocrats that constitute an actual organized political bloc in america
She got asked about that a few times and would claim Christians could be any of the 4 other ideologies on top of being a Christian, but Muslims are their own thing. It's stunning that chuds believe public universities are some kind of lockstep Marxist indoctrination camp when she was one of the 5 polisci professors at my school.
She essentially described someone like who Elon Musk believes himself to be, except Musk wasn't a cultural figure back then, so she said that Ray Kurzweil guy. She meant something like what's normally called a transhumanist, like someone with a transcendent belief in technology to solve political issued by making us into cyborgs.
I tried asking her once if transhumanists comprised a meaningfully large political influence in America and she responded "At least as much as Christians"
I had to take a basic govt in college and it was incoherent af. The guy teaching was awful at hiding his conservative bias and basically explained everything in the most baby brained conservative way possible.
We also did some political compass level shit about political ideologies in America, I can’t remember exactly how it was described, i think fiscal and social liberal on side and conservative of those on the other. Basically the quadrants were liberal, conservative, populist (as a ideology unto itself), and some other one I can’t remember maybe/probably libertarianism?
It was full of :brainworms:
Awful. I wish the political compass could be erased from the American psyche. The best way to describe the ideology of most Americans is "selfish and incoherent"
I had a course like that in college where early on the professor outlined that there are 5 political ideologies in America: liberals, conservatives, libertarians (she added Objectivists next to it), "technologists", and Muslims.
It was completely idiosyncratic to her and weird as shit. I got an A in the course so whatever.
the gall to identify islam as a distinct, monolithic political identity but remain completely oblivious to the christian theocrats that constitute an actual organized political bloc in america
She got asked about that a few times and would claim Christians could be any of the 4 other ideologies on top of being a Christian, but Muslims are their own thing. It's stunning that chuds believe public universities are some kind of lockstep Marxist indoctrination camp when she was one of the 5 polisci professors at my school.
Lol is technologist a technocrat?
Also lmfao at the political ideology Muslim. This sounds like a sketch or something.
She essentially described someone like who Elon Musk believes himself to be, except Musk wasn't a cultural figure back then, so she said that Ray Kurzweil guy. She meant something like what's normally called a transhumanist, like someone with a transcendent belief in technology to solve political issued by making us into cyborgs.
I tried asking her once if transhumanists comprised a meaningfully large political influence in America and she responded "At least as much as Christians"