Exercising my first amendment rights to writing bad essays in class 💪💪💪
“You assigned an essay. I wrote an essay. I should get an A for completing the assignment. If you don’t give me an A, then you are discriminating against my religion.”
This person got a lot of participation trophies when they were growing up.
actual sentence from her essay:
Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic
only one genderMutiples are woke, because they will inevitably lead to working with western arabic numerals.
bit idea: insisting there’s only one gender because you misunderstood embryonic development and think “cis” men are transed at birth.
“There is one gender, it’s mine, you can’t have it!”
“You wouldn’t download a Gender”
Well, when it becomes possible to download and print out things like makeup and gendered clothing and rudimentary gender expression gear… yes, people would download a gender. Even if some of that stuff is considered piracy to spread online. Be queer, do crime, after all.
Mom said it was my turn to have the gender today.
Nuh uh! *holds the gender up above my head* It’s mine!
Gender is a illusion hoisted upon God’s creation by the demiurge. Only by understanding and practicing Gnosticism can one see gender for the illusion that it is and embrace one’s innate nature as luminous beings of light free from the shackles of gender.
My twelve year old self would have told you this with a straight face. Or something involving ritual magick and “the divine androgyne”. Then five minutes later insisted to you that she’s a cis girl and all her issues with gender are just sexual orientation problems and “but when you’re doing certain mysticism and occult practices on your own you have to play two gender roles”.
It was a horrible mess that wasted years of my life with ridiculous cringey phases I have nothing to show for. But hey, at least I probably have one of the most insane “how I hid my fluidity from myself as a kid” stories out there!
I have encountered this kind of person in undergrad studies. In a literature course that tracked from the earliest English written works through to the modern era, a majority of the early works were about religion. Very frequently we’d be asked by the professor in class to contrast the view of Christianity or some aspect of it in the work we’d just read with something earlier we’d previously read. Without fail, every time this question would be asked one specific student would volunteer to answer and then immediately start criticizing the thousand year old work for its incorrect view of Jesus. Every single time. It wasted so much class time, everybody in class would groan and eyeball each other while this god-botherer would tell us what their preacher told them and why what the fuckin monk wrote in like 1100 is wrong and bad.
This is a very specific Type of American and they should not be humored.
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Miss me with the traitor shit, being a traitor to the fourth reich is ennobling
To be clear: MAGAs are traitors, by definition. Those who respect and honor the Constitution are the Patriots, and again, by definition, MAGAs do NOT respect nor honor the Constitution. Resisting the Fourth Reich is not treasonous, it is Patriotic.
I’m not sure you know where you are lol we do not love Amerikkka here and don’t give a shit about the constitution written by slaveowners
It’s amusing to hear people living in Democratic countries complaining about America, when it was America’s founding that inspired the shift to Democracy for every other country on the planet. Democratic nations didn’t exist before America did it first.
America has done some terrible stuff since then, but the only reason that most humans on this planet don’t live under absolute slavery, is because America led humanity to a different way.
Hate America all you want, but the unique promise that America brought to the world is still a valid one, and it is still what most people want - the simple freedom to choose their own path on life. Unfortunately, that promise is in danger even in America itself.
It’s amusing to hear people living in Democratic countries complaining about America, when it was America’s founding that inspired the shift to Democracy for every other country on the planet. Democratic nations didn’t exist before America did it first.
If democracy means one person, one vote, and those votes should all be equal, then America is not and has never been a democracy.
Hate America all you want, but the unique promise that America brought to the world is still a valid one,
You’re just huffing your own farts, that’s not healthy.
you must be lost, the constitution was written by a bunch of rich dickheads who owned people and thought owning people was good. I do not respect or honor that rag.
As written, the Constitution has been one of the most influential documents in the history of mankind, and has inspired and influenced the entire Freedom movement of the 19th and 20th centuries.
It may have been written by wealthy land and slaveowners, but they didn’t write it to only benefit them, like modern Sociopathic Oligarchs would, they created a country and a Constitution that would benefit all American citizens.
There are two problems with that. One, obviously, is their disregard of both slavery, and the Native American genocide, which are indelible stains on our nation that we must acknowledge and bear for the remainder of this nation’s existence, no matter how it embarrasses us as a nation,
And, secondly, from the moment this country was founded, there were bad people seeking to manipulate our freedoms for their own selfish benefit, and we have never done enough to suppress those jackals.
Despite our definite issues, the promise of the Constitution - Liberty and Freedom, protected by a strong Democratic government - has always been a valid philosophy, and the one that offers the best defense against tyranny, when our elected officials do their jobs properly, which they have NOT been doing for several decades.
Just because we’ve had poor leadership, doesn’t mean the FOUNDATION of the system is wrong. Freedom/Liberty will ALWAYS be the preferred system over tyranny, but it must be implemented properly, carefully monitored, and vigorously defended.
this drek is why people fucking hate am*ricans
you fuckers are delusionalThat only means that the concept of a constitution is useful, not that the constitution was written well.
The way elections are set up is designed to limit democracy as much as possible because the writers of the constitution feared “tyranny of the majority” i.e. poor people voting to take their wealth and property. It’s very easy to see between the way voting districts are drawn to the electoral college to the inability to lauch recall elections to there not being a runoff mechanism when no one gets a majority of the votes etc etc. The system was designed by rich and powerful people to keep themselves rich and powerful. The US is not and has never been a democracy.
You are confusing the Promise of the Constitution with its implementation. The Promise - Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness - is amazing, but the government that is meant to defend that promise has to be strong enough to do the job. The problem is that there have always been those people who look at everything as an opportunity to manipulate for their own gain.
Things like gerrymandering, the Electoral College, lobbying, campaign financing, etc., are all “improvements” to our system that were never meant to strengthen it, they were meant to build in advantages for one agenda or another.
So once again, the primary problem isn’t the Constitution, nor the foundation of Liberty that America was founded on, the primary problem is that most American citizens are too polite to ruthlessly slap down evil people who have been trying to game our system from the very beginning.
You don’t reject the Promise of Freedom/Liberty because it is being destroyed by bad people, that will just allow the bad people to win. The obvious move is to reject the bad people who are destroying Democracy.
It may have been written by wealthy land and slaveowners, but they didn’t write it to only benefit them, like modern Sociopathic Oligarchs would, they created a country and a Constitution that would benefit all American citizens.
Why did they do it in private then, hidden away from the people they supposedly wanted to benefit? Why did they structure the government to ensure that landowners and the wealthy would always have the largest say in politics? Surely you can understand that the entire purpose of the Senate is to weaken what little influence the average person has on politics?
The american revolution was not actually a revolution, it was merely a change in ownership from the crown to the wealthy landowners in the colony. The rights and freedoms of the average person in America have never once been the concern of the founders or the people in our government at any point in our history.
Why did they do it in private then, hidden away from the people they supposedly wanted to benefit?
Right off the bat, you are wrong. You make it sound like the Constitution was handled in secrecy, and then just sprung on the new nation, but that’s not the case at all. The Constitutional Convention was widely known, completely open, with representatives from every state, and constant updates in the press. It wasn’t a spectator sport, but the citizens certainly knew it was being debated, and could make their opinions known to their representatives.
And if they were so hot to keep any representation from the people, why did they include the House of Representatives, so all people, no matter how rural or isolated they were, could have a representative in their government?
If they wanted to keep everything for the wealthy, they would have structured the government with the power concentrated in the Executive Branch, but they didn’t, they split the power so no single person or entity could dominate. The only reason it is falling apart now is because one group has decided to not respect the Constitution, not honor their responsibilities, and tear down the walls between branches.
Am I a boomer for thinking 650 words shouldn’t qualify as an essay?
Yes. Make essays shorter, let AI write them, and let American students tip the desks over when they’re still not given 100/100 treatlerite points.
The education system of the empire is a reproductive faculty of its domination over the world and we must let it burn with the heat of a raging supernova until all is left is class.
(i agree, tbh)
Is there a GoFundMe for the teacher? When dipshits on the right get canned for actual bigotry they are showered in money. We should do the same on the left.
Wrote too much in her reasoning. “This is a scientific class, this is not a scientific response. Fail.” is all that is required.
The more you write, the more they can hang you with. The administration can ask for further details and just raising the “demonic” part alone would be more than enough to justify it, behind closed doors, where it isn’t used in propaganda through social media drama.
Yeah, the strategic error here was writing assuming things would be treated in good faith rather than that it would be weaponized by malicious actors.
Yes exactly. If someone is handing in an essay like that then the assumption should be bad faith. This teacher responded very naively, or perhaps thought that their verbose explanations would be of benefit rather than harm, the problem is that the more you write the more there is to pick at. A one liner fail is boring for social media, a huge response is easy propaganda.
Yes. I don’t want to police how a trans professor responds to an assignment that amounted to a personal attack, but she did give them ammo by saying it was “offensive”. The chuds will ignore everything else and claim the student failed because she hurt the professor’s feelings.
The funny thing is that the essay prompt totally left room for bigoted nonsense, you just have to give it a pseudointellectual veneer. A consequence of the success of the viewpoint diversity propaganda is that it forces liberal institutions to raise reactionaries like cuckoo chicks, teaching them how to slide otherwise odious viewpoints under the noses of polite society, but the anti-intellectualism is so virulent that now they’re attacking the momma bird for trying to bring them the worms they need to eat.
Yea! I didn’t chime in because our brave and beautiful posters,
some people are calling them the best posters of all time, had already dissected this and I didn’t have anything to add.This bigot, Samantha FUCKley lmao gottem, could’ve literally rocked up and said “this article demonstrates that adolescent males that are less gender conforming experience significant negative mental effects, and that’s a small price to pay for maintaining gender stereotypes because it is God’s plan” and gotten a grade. It would still be bigoted drivel but at least she could say she was engaging the literature, instead she chose to talk entirely out of her arse.
These true believers are the product of the best propaganda that William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater could dream up, and they can’t follow the plan any more.
Awwww, that bear icon is so cutes! I love it! I mean, the implication that everyone on this website is a bear, is very fun, but the image itself is also very cute in and of itself.
Who says we aren’t all secretly bears
Oh, I assumed that was kinda an open secret. Obviously we’re all bears. What kind of bear are you? I’m a Care Bear.
As a tall Hwight man, I will serve penance for my ancestors crimes by educating these fucking cretins in the gulag after the revolution. When they complain about their low grades I’ll tell them God gave me the authority as a white man to determine their assignment’s worth by their own logic, so choose new logic or get back to breaking rocks.
This sounds like more fun than it is. Talking to these troglodytes is a cognito-hazard and reading their God awful writing is it’s own kind of punishment. Trust me.
Lol found this image in the replies
6-6=AMERICA
true tbh
I thought the numeric code for Amerikkka was 666? Eh, 0 also works, I guess.
I dunno what these guys would hate more, being re-educated by someone like you, who in their worldview is supposed to be on their side, or by a stereotypical Bolshevik woman, dressed like the scary Soviet women in all those awful Cold War spy movies, who hates them all from day one and knows and expects that they hate her.
“Let’s get this out of the way. You don’t like me, and I don’t like you. You don’t want to learn anything on this curriculum, and I don’t want to be here teaching it to you dunderheads. But unfortunately, the Party has decided that we have to do this. So let’s be efficient about this and not waste each other’s time.”
There’s a pragmatic question of pedagogy here. It’s funny to think about the Soviet femme fatale ruining their lives until they learn to genuinely be grateful to her for it, but what I have unfortunately found works to my advantage is that these fuckers don’t put up the same brain worm defense mechanisms when I talk to them as somebody who they’ve been trained to disregard or violently reject on sight. When they’re not frothing at the mouth with rage, I can actually start to make some sense to them, and they’ll nod along in agreement as I start talking about socialist talking points. That’s what they’ve been trained to do when people like me speak and socialist talking points actually fucking make sense, go figure.
It’s stupid and gross, but these fascists literally just won’t listen to POC or queer folks or women. The part of their brains filled with a playlist of hateful shit not different at all from the things that you read in 19th century European race science and philosophy begins running all the greatest hits as soon as the wrong kind of person starts speaking. As a first step deworming procedure, it might just be more effective for folks like me to stand up there and give them what they’ve been trained to accept as a source of authority. It also saves those most harmed from this hatred from being exposed to more of it. Unless someone wanted to volunteer for the job, I don’t think those harmed the most by these systems have the same obligation to be a part of the process.
I regrettably have some personal insight into this dynamic. I was at one point a downwardly economically mobile young white guy who wanted to get laid, so I was susceptible to late 2000s seduction bullshit and later the red pill. To this day it’s my biggest regret taking part in those communities, but I’m very aware of how they think. Deprogramming CAN happen, but it’s rare the person who can do it themselves. The only reason I got out is because I thought a lot of the big bloggers and early youtubers were kind of bad at making the arguments against feminists, so I should go read feminist literature and do a better job Lmao. I debate bro’d myself out of it, because it turns out if you ACTUALLY READ LEFTIST THEORY instead of straw manning it, you’ll just find that it’s correct. The dam broke and suddenly I realized they weren’t just idiots, they were maliciously straw manning the left because if they didn’t their whole project would fall apart and they’d lose their social capital and grift. Long story short, I know how those freaks view people and what kinds of defense mechanisms their parasitic ideology employs. I can sneak past the first layer just by showing up, so why not exploit that advantage? Ya know? Let me go do the back breaking work of tilling the soil so others can come along and plant the seeds.
While I definitely have a fantasy of being that Bolshevik woman and completely breaking these types in the ways a gulag or reeducation system should, what’s really important is to get them to, as you suggest they need, actually read socialist theory.
And if a man who looks like them pretending on some level to agree with them that this exercise is a stupid state requirement and being friendly and approachable and “good cop”, presenting it as “I’m supposed to get you to blindly accept these ideas, but how about we all read through the text and break it down and argue against it?” can get them to read it and realise it’s correct, then I’ll step aside with my nasty revolutionary terror fantasies and let something that actually works be done instead.
But if we need some sort of “good cop bad cop” to properly break and rebuild them, I’m sure there’s at least a few women and femme presenting folks out there who’d love to live out a Cold War leftist fantasy of being the dangerous Soviet woman McCarthy warned you about, while also being genuinely useful to the peoples’ state and to the project of properly educating people who need it. Not sure if I’d actually be good at doing the work that role needs to do, but it’s certainly a tempting position.
I’m gonna push back on this vision as idealism, cathartic though it may be. I’m not seeking to good cop them too hard or pretend to be anything other than what I am. Mao’s liberalism communists disdain to hide their views and all that. I just mean that if we want to do anything other than actually torture them for our own sick ends, we should be educating them in a way that gets the job done for the least resources possible. It’s unfair to the workers doing the teaching, it’s unfair to society to shoulder the burden of paying for their incarceration for any longer than absolutely necessary, and ultimately, it’s unfair to the incarcerated to antagonize them any more than necessary. Say what we will about their horrible beliefs, I’m not a retributivist when it comes to justice. We’re better than the idealist nonsense that underpins our current justice system and we shouldn’t let the ugly motivation of vengeance be the guiding light when engaging here. It should be rehabilitation, and whatever methods we can use to rehabilitate ASAP so they can be lifted to sapience and rejoin society as well adjusted members rather than horrible little gremlins hell bent on harming the historically marginalized. I’d argue this resource minimization is just a socially responsible way to minimize any further damage they can do, directly or indirectly, short of slipping into immoral forms of torture or unproductive and unjustifiable compromise of principles, like your good cop as described.
I’m just an educator by trade, and consider it part of my duty to reach the reachable as a professional obligation if nothing else. Discussing this with my peers who are POC or women, we widely recognize the type and how frustrating it is that they’ll listen to me and not them. None of us like this, it’s just a pragmatic matter to some extent, so if we’re trying to teach a group of folks and problem makers push back in them I’m brought in as the BAD cop if anything. A punishment or admonishment coming from me gets treated with more consideration than one from my marginalized peer, which might get written off as “that fucking slur hates me because they’re incapable of rational thought.” Again, terrible though it may be, they don’t get to use that line of reasoning on me. The same message coming from my lips can’t be written off in the same ways. Surely it can be written off with plenty of other vicious and moronic cope, but their options are more limited, and if they have a predisposition to accept authority from the likes of me why not exploit that to our advantage?
You should do some reading about how political education actually occurs during reeducation in cuba. The political officer more or less lives with the prisoners and is there to help coach and guide their development. Under ideal conditions, prisoners are to be released within 2 years of joining the political reeducation program. This is a great article that explores the philosophy of the program in Cuba.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23294111
This is a fantastic article that cuts through the ridiculous propaganda of western rags uncritically printing allegations of gusanos and the Yeonmi Parks of Cuba.
The biggest difference between Cuba’s situation and our own is the level of wealth and class character of offender. Cuba’s political prisoners tended to be peasants, not the ‘middle class’ as exists in the US or proletariat. We’d need to adjust our program accordingly, but I don’t want to get too into the weeds here until we’re operating from a materialist lens and rooting our analysis in proven socialist projects rather than idealist notions of how reeducation looks. PM me if you have difficulty accessing the article and we can figure out how I can get it to you.
Not even trying to be edgy when I say this country will need a cultural revolution unlike anything that has been witnessed before in history in order to excise this obscene anti-social behavior and anti-intellectualism that is fucking laser etched into the fabric of this abominable nation. What a fucking grotesque “”“culture”“” we’re all fucking trapped in. I hate it here.
A cultural revolution otherwise known as a giant asteroid.
just build a wall around most of the continental united states and let the rest of the world move on without us
Wow I had professors in college who tore me apart when I put a comma in the wrong place. This was such a thoughtful and insightful response to the equivalent of a Reddit comment.
Then the spineless University bends over backwards to give the illiterate dunce a passing grade for a paper that can be summarized as: “God says. Therefore I am.
MFW because some neckbeards dunked on some low-hanging fruit on tumblr during gamergate means we all have to listen to chuds and can’t tell them to fuck off because truth is now determined by your social capital. And god forbid we make the CHUDs angry…they might draw us ugly…they could even unleash some….SICK BURNS! The horror!
jesus christ, this nazi country is so fucking illiterate. for anyone playing along at home, 650 words is like a page and a half of 1.5 spacing writing. put another tally down on “everyone is 12 now.” it’s even obvious just from the stupid TPUSA screenshots on twitter that this woman’s essay was trash without even reading it. there’s like 10 underlined grammatical or typographical mistakes on every screenshot. i’d be fucking embarrassed to have people associate me forever with some half-assed writing assignment i got triggered by in a college course. not to mention the prose is terrible and fails to engage with anything academic in any way. off rip, it’s “God this” and “God that,” nothing at all to do with empirically rigorous argumentation. in a word, these nazis are pathetic.
edit: just saw the update with the response from the university ABOUT A DOG SHIT ASSIGNMENT THAT DIDN’T EVEN ENGAGE WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER. I HAVE NO FINGERS AND I MUST FEDPOST ISTG. ****************************************************** THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA.
and here’s an additional comment from the other instructor of the course backing the grade given (0/25).
Imagine having “you do not think bullying (teasing) is a bad thing” as a conversation about a paper you’ve written, after which you tried to bully university staff by using a screenshot containing that phrase
What a fucking loser
the vice signaling is boundless
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Full text transcript:
Instructor Megan Waldron's comment
Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also taken the time to read your paper. I concur with Mel on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment.
Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning. I find it concerning that you state at the beginning of your paper that you do not think bullying ('teasing") is a bad thing. In addition, your paper directly and harshly criticizes your peers and their opinions, which are just as valuable as yours. Disagreeing with others is fine, but there is a respectful way to go about it. That goes for discussion posts as well as reaction papers.
Please employ more thoughtfulness in your future assignments.
These types constantly whine about having to take “pointless” academic writing courses and then go on to prove why they desperately need them. This horseshit would’ve been struggling to get a C in high school.
650 words
I’ll admit it’s been a hot minute since I was in college/uni, and I was a Lit major, but 650 words isn’t an essay, at most it’s some type of reflection assignment. Even in high school I never had an essay assignment with that few words.
In college? I was writing 2000-3000 word essays or short stories minimum for 4 different classes with at least one due for any given week. Plus, at least a novel’s worth of reading for each week. Midterms would usually be another essay written in-class. If the final was a take home essay or project it was often in the range of 10-15 pages single-spaced.
650 words is literally fucking nothing and it’s no surprise that TPUSA losers somehow manage to fail it. This is middle school level work.
650 words is an internet comment. 😆
shortest communist meme
Of which they usually respond with “I’m not reading all that”
that’s becoming more and more common here & I can’t stand it. Just a genuinely dismissive & shitty thing to respond to a post with.
i’m not reading all that, free palestine.
I used to get so annoyed 10-15 years ago when it was common to reply to long comments or posts with “Can we get a TL;DR?”
Everyone is so fucking lazy and illiterate, and it’s gotten worse in the last decade.
exactly, this is such a short assignment that its consequence can’t be more than an afterthought and now it’s…this. it’s just such a fucking pathetic failure on the part of the student, the hitler youth (tpusa-ou), and the university itself by cowing to this utter drivel. i was a dreaded STEM major in college, and i took a bunch of courses that required significantly more writing on a regular basis.
Chuds display such an active hatred of learning that I can only conclude that the only reason any of them bother going to college is to manufacture right wing outrage in an attempt to become a grifter
don’t forget the veneer of conferred merit that all of these fascist institutions generally consider a positive, regardless of their prevaricating on the woke indoctrination of the university.
I feel like I had assignments where I had to write proofs with a higher word count lol
now that you mention it, yeah
I’ve written assignments longer than this for art classes. Literally just talking about pictures and sculpture for more than 600 words. We’d go to local galleries and have to type up responses to what we saw. Or giving feedback on classmates’ work, which needed to be written down so they could reference it later.
Oh man. I had a capstone enviro science unit that gave us a major assignment with a ~600 word limit. That did not make it easier. But we were expected to get a lot done with those 600 words, it was a hard limit, and the professor was well known to be a hard marker.
But yeah, this is a joke. I would guess it’s a first year unit that’s easing the students into things and maybe was the first assignment for the unit? Not a bad thing, but also not challenging at all.
I mean, there’s 650 word assignments and 650 word assignments. This one sounds like a joke but I’ve had assignments in science units that were around 600 words that needed to be fully referenced and to both adequately describe and comment on a complex topic, where the word count was explicitly set very, very low for the amount of evidence we were expected to provide, by a practitioner who was frankly very proud of the high level of difficulty of the unit, which was a capstone environmental science unit. He was constantly talking about how many people had to repeat the unit, “because they didn’t actually complete the assignment”, because it’s honestly hard to know if you’ve gotten enough done to answer the prompt in so few words! I did pretty well in the unit overall - one of my weakest but still I believe I got a distinction - and I was sweating bullets worrying about whether or not I had adequately responded to the assignment question. Those assignments weren’t especially time consuming perhaps but they were difficult.
I’ll also say, I don’t know if you’ve had to write a (scientific) lit review or other assignment for a science unit where you’re providing 3-4 references per paragraph, which you should understand and paraphrase to support whatever you’re trying to say, but bumping out the 2,000 words was always by far the easiest part of that process - a week and a half of reading journal articles and taking notes followed by a few hours of typing.
I’ve never written a college-level essay for a STEM class. I would probably have failed any non-intro level STEM class.
But speaking from a humanities perpspective, when you got a 650 word assignment it was almost always because the prof/TAs were handing out freebies to lighten their own workloads. As in, only way you fail them is by not turning anything in. Or at least that’s what I thought until now.
Definitely in a lit class, there is no way you are ever going to be submitting a 650 word essay. The only time I’ve had to do references packed that dense was in a Chinese history class and that was mostly because the prof had a hard-on for his own books.
If you did that in a lit class you it would actually drastically increase your chances of failing. It was viewed as just remixing other peoples’ work instead of writing anything of your own. The only exceptions were a class I took on translating literature, and classes on writing theory. And even then, 3-4 references per paragraph would be viewed as excessive.
Yeah, that makes sense. In science at least, you aren’t doing anything new in undergrad. Anything you say has to come straight out of someone else’s work, because you aren’t actually doing any! If I, as an undergrad, say something about genetics that I haven’t gotten from someone else’s paper, what reason do I have for thinking it’s true? I haven’t done any genetics research so it’s effectively a guess. You are still expected to apply the knowledge you get from your sources to the topic at hand, but you just aren’t in a position to say anything too novel. It’s one of the reasons I suspect STEM degrees are probably on average easier than arts degrees tbh.
you aren’t doing anything new in undergrad.
That can be said about every undergraduate degree tbh lol…it’s a matter of demonstrating you learned the material. Humanities professors have already read your essays before you wrote them a decade ago.
Part of it is training you to do actual research that will be new once you go into grad school or become a professional in your field. You can’t go from writing 1,000 word essays to writing a 75,000 word thesis overnight.
I had philosophy exams in highschool where I had to write upwards of 2000 words in under 2 hours lol. 650 is like a long lemmy comment.
After the revolution, a lot of people are going to need all their slop targeted at low attention spans taken away. See if we can get them to actually read stuff when it’s that or stare at a blank wall.
fails to engage with anything academic in any way. off rip, it’s “God this” and “God that,” nothing at all to do with empirically rigorous argumentation.
Every time I see shit like this, it only makes me more atheist. I’m convinced by this point that the primary purpose of religion is to concoct unfalsifiable justifications for the unjustifiable.
it is truly the defense of the most ignorant and violent in our society. there is nothing of it from which i may find value any longer, and its value to me as a child was driving me fucking insane not being able to reconcile the dogma with the text itself.
Oklahoma? No wonder
“everyone is 12 now”
I wrote more than 650 words on the regular for assignments with no maximum in like 6th and 7th grade, this is insulting 12 year olds.
infinite GPA glitch discovered if you write ‘Jesus’ ‘God’ ‘Bible’ and ‘Christian’ enough times in a red state university no matter the assignment you trigger an overflow and max out your grade
sqrt(x) equals GOD-FEARING CHRISTIAN, y equals JESUS SAVES
because of ‘Chud’ I must comply*exaggerated southern accent: the only categorical imperative is “What would Jesus do?”
sqrt(x) made me think squirt(butthole)
Why did I post this
Thanks for the cheat code, gonna become a doctor and blame cancer on wokeness.
Did you know that trans woman are more likely to get breast cancer than cis men?
I have been listening to the TrueAnon episode on Charlie Kirk, and I am starting to revise my opinion of “that was a bad thing because we’ve lost our laughingstock”.
Also, the teacher here should have made her comment that “I am giving you a 0/25 because God created me with the desire to give you a failing grade”, referenced some obscure Bible verse, and watched what the student did.
citing “god” in a college essay should just get you kicked out all together
god does not view women as less significant then men
lol, lmao even.
pushing the lie that everyone has their own truth and everyone can do whatever they want and be whoever they want is not biblical whatsoever
what a fucking joke, does this person not know other religions exist? “Not everyone has a right to claim their own truth, it says so in my specific religious text that I believe to be true”
GOD SAID THAT MY ILLITERACY COUNTS AS AN ARGUMENT, AND IF YOU DON’T AGREE I’M CALLING THE GESTAPO
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It is frustrating to me
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S FUCKING FRUSTRATING TO ME?? When people claim a bunch of shit that god did without any fucking evidence. Prove he made men and women, that he made gender, that he’s intentional with his creation, any of it. That the bible contains his words and description of himself. Prove this dickhead is even real before citing him.
We can do the skeptic and reddit atheist movement again, right? Just make it clear islamophobes can fuck right off, right?
Focus 100% on the KKKri$$tians
Can we do it without the reddit/skeptic community this time?
Stg those people made me cringe more than the Christians demanding I go to church
Most of those redditor skeptic people became these same christofascists. It wasn’t really a true opposition to religion, but the desire to exterminate Muslims
that’s a you problem then because the redditors were, by comparison, only annoying, while the christians are annoying and have amassed political power to the detriment of humanity.
Yeah I can’t take seriously statements like that. Tell me you were never hurt by these assholes and are privileged and the whole thing is academic without telling me that.
If you put reddit cringe atheists and annoying youtube manosphere sexist “skeptics” on the same tier as Evangelicals you’re just wildly uninformed and offensively ignorant. One of these is just a bunch of annoying internet nerds circle jerking, another has immense political power, a broad base of support, incredible amounts of cash, fanatical devotion, infiltration of all levels of government, literally murders people and gets away with it, literally has a thing for covering up CSA and other abuse against children and adults at industrial scale. Lives in a totally deranged false reality, substitutes wild fantasy of 4000 years old earths and rejection of pretty much all of modern science and violent anti-intellectualism and a slavish devotion to the Protestant work ethic. And has succeed in the past and present in making women second class by denying them bodily autonomy, by inculcating from birth patriarchy and misogyny propaganda, and by driving thousands of LGBTQ to despair and suicide through their social control of whole towns and communities. We could reliably peel away at least a third the disaffected young men drawn into problematic movement atheism by influencers under the right conditions while I am convinced no conditions will peel away any statistically significant amount of Evangelicals to our cause because ours is antithetical to theirs.
It’s a little more complicated than that when you remember that there’s actually a world outside the US. A lot of the reactionary elements here in Europe for instance aren’t really explicitly christian beyond a sort of vague “cultural christianity” that can mean a million different things depending on who you ask (and it’s usually just something like baptizing your kids or getting married in a church because it’s family tradition). The worst islamophobes, racists, misogynists, anti-lgbtq fucks, zionists, and just general bigots I’ve interacted with IRL or in predominantly European language internet spaces have pretty much all been atheists, and none of those people support the right wing politicians/parties they do for any religious reasons.
The sort of evangelical freaks you have to deal with over there just aren’t much of a factor over here.
Now, you could of course make the argument that some of this shit is inspired by (or even directly “imported” from) the US and has its roots in US evangelicalism, and I’d agree with that to some degree, but the point is that religion isn’t a prerequisite for these things to take hold.
when talking about reddit atheists we’re mostly talking about movement atheists, not simple nonbelievers. there’s little reason to form communities around nonbelief when religious doctrine isn’t dominating society and eroding civil rights.
Now, you could of course make the argument that some of this shit is inspired by (or even directly “imported” from) the US and has its roots in US evangelicalism, and I’d agree with that to some degree, but the point is that religion isn’t a prerequisite for these things to take hold.
it’s not, but to the extent that reddit atheists reproduced the racism, misogyny, and white supremacy of their originating cultures they were simply failing to be better than the christofascists, and in the context of a major ameircan website should have been preferable to the god botherers.
Damn that professor is a gem, her response was incredibly professional and even supportive. Such a shame the student, university, ace country has their head so far up their asses. I wish I had any one professor that would have given me such constructive feedback on anything I turned in and to do so in response to such an obvious hateful bigot even.
Nah, this is not what professional academic feedback for a 650 word project should look like. The entirety of the feedback for a tiny piece of writing (that most of the class will have ChatGPT write for them anyway) should have been:
“0/10 does not address the question.”
Anything more than that should not have been written by the TA. The TA is absolutely not being paid enough to write such lengthy feedback, and it isn’t a TA’s responsibility to deal with formal appeals. This whole thing was mismanaged by the tenured academics and administrators and should have never happened, and now they’re scapegoating the poor TA.
Material that is hazardous to online reactionaries needs to be discussed extremely carefully, and treating the students like royalty with lengthy bespoke feedback for baby’s-first-writing-project is just inviting disaster. Criticize them about their transphobia in-person during office hours or a small classroom setting where you can yell at them to put their phones away. Do not write that shit in the fucking chat window on moodle or blackboard where students can screenshot and post it to the toxic algorithmic apps that they actually pay attention to during their spare time instead of doing the fucking assigned readings.
I completely glossed over the word count. I don’t think I considered anything under a thousand words to be an essay since I left highschool, that was decades ago, now I’m kind of appalled that 650 words are considered an essay. Being concise is great but how do you even formulate what you are engaging with and provide an informed response with only 650 words in an academic context.
Tell that to my fucking environmental impact assessments professor in final year. “I’m being generous in giving you a 600 word count, you need to learn to be way more concise than that when you’re dealing with ministers” eat my entire asshole, ANGUS.
…Actually much as I dislike the guy that’s probably the best thing he did with us but god damn was he an obnoxious asshole about it, and god DAMN are those short assignments harder at the end of your degree when you’re expected to actually achieve anything with it.
I’m being generous in giving you a 600 word count, you need to learn to be way more concise than that when you’re dealing with ministers
He’s not wrong though
Yeah, I totally agree. Still a knob though. He gave us an example he wrote of a good paper that answered the question that was even shorter (he is literally a world expert who wrote a decent chunk of the IAIA best practices documentation, it’s not that he doesn’t know what he’s doing) and all I could think while reading it was “I’m an undergrad. If I provided so few references on a paper in most of my units I would be pulled up on academic integrity. I’m not allowed to Just Say Stuff like you.”
Presumably he didn’t expect us to outdo what he did but I would have been very uncomfortable submitting it, it felt very, very under sourced.
Yes, totally. I went back to school after a few years of fulltime work, and they’re different fields. You can’t (well, probably better to say shouldn’t) anticipate the working environment and enforce those requirements within the academic one because you’re held to different standards. He’s right in that ministers will only read the cover brief, if that, but he’s wrong in implying that it’s an acceptable yardstick while at school. Plus not everyone is going to graduate and write for government.
I mean, I’m sure that it’s pretty much universal that you don’t need to be anywhere near as anal about sourcing anywhere outside an academic context. It’s still asking a lot of students to expect them to write something to that different standard with no training on how to do so - it was just a different expectation for that one unit. It was tough enough for me as a mature student in my 40s since I had just spent several years having it hammered into my head that every single idea I present must be supported by a reputable source or it’s an ethical violation and I can get in trouble. Can’t imagine how much tougher it would be for kids straight out of school.
(sorry undeleted my comment after i saw your reply)
Our Jordan Peterson.
This poor Southern professor was canceled by the fascist mainstream for her unpopular but correct views. Literally the modern day Galileo!
