/lit/ - Literature

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>>4650721
I don't get all the /pol/ whining itt. I don't see it as much here on /lit/ but clearly the major problem sweeping 4chan as well as the rest of the internet (especially in comic and videogame communities (/co/, yes; /v/, no, but almost every videogame journalistic outlet, yes) is the incredibly idiotic, poorly funded tumblr feminism and all the the dumb humanism that comes with it.

You'd assume /lit/ would be aware of it considering how much it's infested college, too.
It's an extremely flawed ideology that is based on playing pretend-academia at best, in the same way kids play house, they make up little terms and make little psycholanalytical interpretations and feign an "open" forum while their politics have them smother all criticism, disregard all actual scholarship and weigh their critique purely on the speaker's identity and use of the coded terminology.

And of course with their blind reliance on the tumblr social apparatus and total exploitation by the new data farming algorithmic content producers, it's hard to say how much of it is even their own dumb fault. They're definitely not headed in the direction of their own (purported) interests, but is that simply because there are other, less "humane" forces at work behind them? Either way, /pol/, or legitimate right-wing conservatism, is definitely the least of the trouble.

Point to an example OP. People are strawmanning like crazy. and obviously, anyone can get criticized, you shouldn't give any credence unless it's by someone or some group that's relevant and respectable. I mean, I respect Spike Lee as a filmmaker but I only find his race related controversies amusing, and suspicious, I'm pretty sure they're blown out of proportion for mass media.

>>3744472
This is the only actual example itt, and it doesn't really count. Faurisson isn't much of an intellectual, Chomsky was the academic who as attacked, but for defending Faurisson, not his own personal views.

But mass media is important, because these kinds of diluted liberals >>3744730 are born from it. They're not intellectuals, and they're not relevant, and the only reason they'll jump to action is when they're told to by media, attacking diluted, distorted constructs. Out of the realm of mainstream media, groups become individuals, allowing them less conflicting perspective.

I've never seen anyone call Will Durant a pedophile despite marrying a 14 year old at twice her age.