/lit/ - Literature

>>11135117
>muh transphobic ad hominem
No, I dislike charlatans who pretend to be intelligent.
It wouldn't matter if a straight white male or any other person made the same video word-for-word.
I addressed the other person's claim in a followup post.
The first part and a half of the video, was the individual somehow trying to "show" to us that he actually is really smart (look at me! We wuz neuroscientists n statisticians n shit!) which pissed me off right off the bat. Ad hominem in that regard? Yes, and it's absolutely valid as the only reason he mentioned this was to lay the groundwork that clearly he wasn't at fault. From there I used everything else against him to show that he indeed is at fault rather than the PhD track.
I genuinely mention his status as a transgender individual as a potential reason for his enrollment in the program. Funded philosophy PhD slots are very limited. For someone to have a problem with a PhD program and all that it entails, shows me that they either weren't that intelligent to begin with or didn't know what they were signing up for. In his case, it think it's both. Admittedly, while it is tedious, narrow, and so forth, this is not a valid reason for abandoning a very competitive program.
There is an overabundance of people in academia right now, creating quantity over quality and leading to many to have problems with originality and writing dissertations. He and unqualified people in academia represent a vastly larger problem than the PhD framework.