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David's avatar

“steaming pile of post-modern deconstructionist bullshit” should read “steaming pile of post-modern deconstructionist horseshit”. Bullshit is useful social lubrication; horseshit is just lies (eg, trans females are actually not males, but are females - or something, I can’t keep track.) Both stand in contrast to chickenshit, which is what academic administration in the modern American university strives to achieve, but can’t.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

I graciously accept your correction.

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Mike Bond's avatar

Very good. We've morphed from a meritocracy to an idiocracy.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

And not really any intermediate form(s); punctuated equilibrium indeed.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Thank you so much for this. I've been finding myself mystified and repelled by this kind of language.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'Hybridity' on Wikipedia. Even that bastion of wokeness saw a steaming pile of post-modern deconstructionist bullshit, flagging it as 'This section may be very hard to understand. Please help clarify it. (January 2024)'

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T Benedict's avatar

Having graduated years ago from UW, this makes me miserable.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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