I have my suspicions about its historical accuracy based on my college being notoriously conservative and my professor being an anticommunist. I was wondering if anyone here had read it or knew of a review that dissects its sourcing. I don’t have the time to heavily investigate this book unfortunately.
I am very far along in my academic career. I have just once piece of advice: don’t fight your professor’s ideology. The third time I had to go the dean of the department to complain about my professor giving me poor marks because they disagreed with politically was the last time, because now I just write whatever shitty paper they want. It’s easier, it will save you from getting retaliated against, and it doesn’t matter.
Haha I had a class about US-LatAm Relationships in the 20th Century, taught by a CIA historian. I don’t know I didn’t end up biting right through my tongue.
Trying to fight in classes or persuade them or whatever is a total waste of time, but if there is legitimate grading discrimination, I won’t tell people they “should” fight it because that depends on circumstances, but there is value in it imo because that’s a grotesque abuse of power that violates the policy of most universities. I had some extremely shitty reactionary professors, including easily one of the most disgusting people I’ve met in real life, but I never lost more than maybe a couple points for representing myself as a communist, if I even lost a couple points, because they either had some sense of professionalism or at least understood that it could get them in trouble.
This is mostly true, but one of the professors that I’ve had issues with ended up giving my contested marks back and then nitpicking the rest of work to death within the bounds of the rubrics. I ended up withdrawing. It just isn’t worth it. Nobody is going to read my papers after I finish the course.
I will repeat that there are factors I have no means of accounting for that can readily make it not worth it, but my point isn’t about your papers or my papers or whatever, but about how these reactionaries go on to treat other students (and maybe just damaging their reputation to the administration, at least on the level of competence, because fuck them).
Yeah I am not taking this class too seriously and I am purposefully pretending I am not a communist lol. My GPA is more important than being right atm