College

[Anonymous No.10311178]

Itt: liberal bull you've had to read as a humanities major

Pic obviously related

[Anonymous No.10311185]

>>10311178
Basically anything that asserts that women and nonwhites are morally equal to me as a white man

[Anonymous No.10311202]

>>10311185
have you figured out yet that the reason /pol/ posters never specify that they are white men is because they literally are not
/pol/ is the thirdie+amerimutt containment board its hilarious

[Anonymous No.10311211]

>>10311202
We've moved to /lit/

[Anonymous No.10312089]

>>10311185
I'd be pissed if somebody said eurochimps were equal to me tbqh.

[Anonymous No.10312156]

Judith Butler
I didn't even mind so much, but that professor turned it into a full male/white/middle-class privilege seminar. I had to listen for 2 hours about how bad I was as I belong to those 3 categories and basically all my potential achievements are nullified beforehand, because I only got there with my privilege.

[Anonymous No.10312161]

One class had me read a bunch of proto-feminist icons from the 17th century to the 19th century like Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Hannah Crafts, Emily Dickinson, the Bronte Sisters, etc

I actually enjoyed most of the reading, I just couldn't stand how my professor would twist their work to fit her odious, 3rd-wave feminist, man-hating agenda.

[Anonymous No.10312168]

>>10311185
>look at me, I'm being edgy and racist on an anonymous imageboard! In every thread!

[Anonymous No.10312197]

>>10311185
Unironocally this, but unironically.

[Anonymous No.10312207]

I had "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft assigned 8 times during my undergrad. I'm so glad I switched majors out of English. Fuck leftism. Fuck leftists. Fuck liberals.

[Anonymous No.10312216]

>>10312207
And fuck women and niggers. They belong in the kitchen and fucking Africa, respectively

[Anonymous No.10312220]

>>10312216
Spoken just like a Marxist retard. There is nothing wrong with women and black people besides the leftist ideology that has infected and ruined many of them. Conservative Christian women and black people are fine. You freakish monsters are the ideological equivalent of wolves picking the weak off of the flock of normal people.

[Anonymous No.10312231]

>>10312207
Mary Shelly was into incest because of Wollstonecraft’s death.

[Anonymous No.10312232]

>>10312216
FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM. How do you do fellow comrade. Fuck Drumpf. Nice to see another enlightened denizen of r/communism on this alt-Reich /pol/tard hate speech site. There is a spectre haunting /lit/; the spectre of dank communist memes! Am I right, comrade? DONALD DRUMPF, KKK, RACIST, SEXIST, ANTIGAY.
>tfw c l a s s c o n c i o u s

[Anonymous No.10312235]

>>10312220
>black people are fine
imagine backsliding this hard
I bet you loved Milo

[Anonymous No.10312246]

>>10312235
Milo is a Sodomite. I've never been a fan.

[Anonymous No.10312249]

>>10312232
What are you even trying to say? Go back to leftypol with this degeneracy. There is nothing factually wrong with saying that the white man is superior to women and nonwhites

[Anonymous No.10312250]

>>10312249
Am I being triple memed right now?

[Anonymous No.10312252]

>>10312250
who created the white world? Who invented the masterpieces of art, the culture, the civilization, the technological innovation, the medicine, the nuclear bomb? Men. White men.
Women spread their legs, that was their contribution. As for Africa, well need I say more?

[Anonymous No.10312372]

>>10312252
but mansa musa

[Anonymous No.10312397]

Had to read Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. It was just a bunch of incoherent garbage written by a 1930's tumblrista lesbian.

[Anonymous No.10312472]

They had me read the Heptameron before reading the Decameron and didn't even give us Chaucher, u fkin kidding me?

[Anonymous No.10312486]

>>10312252
>Who invented the masterpieces of art, the culture, the civilization, the technological innovation, the medicine, the nuclear bomb?
Jews.

[Anonymous No.10312866]

>>10312216

Everytime there is a thread on /lit/ with a bit of political content there you are spitting shit trying to be funny. Why don't you do that on /pol/ leftard

[Anonymous No.10312926]

>>10312252
Proceeds to go home and boot up a game made by a Japanese company.

[Anonymous No.10312949]

>>10311202
yep thats why i stopped going there

[Anonymous No.10313199]

>>10311202
"/pol/ is mostly niggers"

- /pol/

[Anonymous No.10313247]

>>10311178
lol, back in highschool I took AP Lang and Lit where all we did was write ON PAPER. And I actually developed strong writing skills, and it was NOT EASY. A lot of the STEM nerds got 50s and the average was around 75. I was better at AP Lit than lang, in Lit I got 91s.

Meanwhile, I took two English classes in college. First one was mandatory "writing" class where we typed up bullshit essays, which were graded mainly for completion. Second one, I willingly took because it was called "Rhetoric and Grammar", I wanted to follow Peterson's advice on leaving college with strong writing skills so I figured I'd take a class to brush up on them.

Then entire class is a joke and has nothing to do with writing. It's LITERALLY postmodernist neoMarxist propaganda. First, the 2 weeks of class was mainly about getting to know each other's names. Then the class was about politics, "dialogue", how our identities influence dialogue, and E-M-P-A-T-H-Y. What a joke. We've got a final project in the damn class and I got a group with 3 other women (there were only 4 men, including me, in the entire class and 1 is hyper cucked, a 5th guy bailed out when he could) and they unilaterally decided to do "rape culture".

Fuck college, learn to write in highschool kids! I had hopes that the class would improve later, but it just got worse. Hate every bitch in that class. Most useless class I ever took it college, the only thing I got out of it was that I can now FIRMLY CONFIRM, that they whole Marxist propaganda infesting English class is absolutely true. I'm a chem major so I didn't realize it before, but now I know it's absolutely true.

[Anonymous No.10313260]

I didn't buy the book and skipped class on the days we were supposed to talk about it.

[Anonymous No.10313284]

its good to read things you don't agree with.

[Anonymous No.10313309]

>>10313284
Yeah this. The problem I've noticed is that both SJWs and /pol/yps refuse to even engage with shit they disagree with, and don't even bother trying to dismantle it with its own logic. It's anyways muh feelz over actual reason. The amount of anti intellectualism going around these days is fuckin worrying

[Anonymous No.10313342]

>>10313309
The "how to I counter "X" argument threads" make me especially angry

>"how do I counter marx's materialism"

Read some books and work it for yourself

[Anonymous No.10313380]

>>10313284
>>10313309
It's good to engage with people you disagree with, but it's a waste of time to engage with maniacs and ideologues that come to you in bad faith.

[Anonymous No.10313383]

>>10312397
you got triggered at the jew bits didn't you? keke

[Anonymous No.10313409]

>>10313342
>>10313309
Tbh I wish I was a mod so I could enforce some fuckin discussion standards here. /lit/ could actually become a place for intellectual discourse instead of the shit palace it currently is.

[Anonymous No.10313420]

>>10313409
if the mods just enforced the actual rules on this board in a semi-consistent way it could be a decnt board

>>10313380
fuck up you circle-jerking mongrel shit-cunt.

[Anonymous No.10313447]

>>10312397
this sounds awesome, actually

[Anonymous No.10313482]

>>10313420
Hey man, why don't you want you engage with me? Don't you believe in discourse and logic? The amount of anti-intellectualism going around these days is fucking worrying.

[Anonymous No.10313506]

>>10313482
I believe debate and discourse is important. I believe that polemicists are parasites who utilise the medium of language and destroy it from the inside out. they should be hunted down and exterminated.

[Anonymous No.10313568]

[Anonymous No.10313569]

>>10311178
Not looking to start shit here, but I was literally told that any other alternatives to this were wrong because they were racist.
My lecturer was kind of new though and was spilling spaghetti when he said it so I'm not sure if he was having trouble "teaching" something he didn't agree with or just expected some form of approval for what he'd said.

[Anonymous No.10313637]

>>10313260
Had to read it twice. I wrote a paper on the formal aspects of it and the teacher gave me a C because she wanted it to be on the social parts. She had never mentioned that before.

[Anonymous No.10313657]

[Anonymous No.10313682]

>>10312486
this but unironically
true master race (+chosen people)

[Anonymous No.10313704]

>>10313380
But you cant tell who "comes to you in bad faith" unless you read some of their stuff. You cant just be told what they are about, you need to figure it out for yourself (by reading their thoughts).

You're basically saying they are crazy ideologues because you are scared that if you read their stuff, you will like it and wont be able to refute it and might change your mind about something or, god forbid, be more informed about the subject from different angles.

[Anonymous No.10313884]

>>10311185
FPBP

[Anonymous No.10313910]

>>10313569
What are some alternatives?

[Anonymous No.10313932]

>>10311178
Humanities in the USA has nothing to do with literature basically you will get mindpozzed by the managerial gynocracy and end up all the worse for it. Your classmates have likely read nothing but bell hooks and Harry Potter . And btw bell hooks is a self described fan of self help literature. Funny how postfordist ideological apparatuses end up overlapping.

[Anonymous No.10313943]

>>10312486
sadly this, stormniggers hate Jews because they gave their golden boys a run for their money and won

[Anonymous No.10313953]

>>10312156
>>10313932
>things that didn't happen

[Anonymous No.10313962]

Why not go to a college that's better suited towards you? You do know that there are still all male, conservative, and almost entirely white schools, right?

[Anonymous No.10314091]

>>10313704
I think he's talking about the people assigning them rather than the books themselves.
>>10313247
>E-M-P-A-T-H-Y
It's usually beat to disregard the thoughts of anyone who uses this word. They have nothing worth hearing.

[Anonymous No.10314102]

>>10313932
I have a masters degree in english literature and this is 100% true. I know people with PHDs in English Lit that call John Green their favourite author, I'd say maybe 80% of the grad students in my department only read YA fiction

[Anonymous No.10314133]

When I took English 1102 in university we read the New York Times opinion pages.

[Anonymous No.10314140]

>>10314091
fair enough, i still maintain my point that people should read things they dont agree with.
for example, I'm reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich right now and I dont agree with National Socialism ideology (surprising, I know). I'm just interested in learning what they were really all about

[Anonymous No.10314150]

>>10314140
by William Shirer?
you know that book just brutally attacks Hitler with ad hominems almost every second page right

[Anonymous No.10314154]

>>10313704
You can get a good idea of whether or not an author is writing in good faith by doing a little research on your own. I googled Claudia Rankine, flipped through a copy of Citizen at the bookshop and decided she wasn't worth my time. Look at this picture. How do you argue with something like that? It's not poetry, it's a political screed. There's no attempt to change anyone's mind. There's no way to refute it except for retrying the Eric Gardner case with a bunch of leftist freshmen and sophomores. It's just an angry old black woman assigning collective blame.

[Anonymous No.10314159]

>>10313932
>mindpozzed by the managerial gynocracy

lmfao this is great

[Anonymous No.10314197]

>>10313383
No that was the only part I liked because I found it hilarious. I got triggered by the Doctor. He appears in ever chapter to ramble incoherently. Since he appears in every chapter and since his longest rambling takes place approximately midway through the book he is clearly important to the novel. But what am I supposed to get from him if nothing he says make sense? He doesn't respond to people's dialogue and no one responds to his dialogue. It's all just miscommunication. No one listens to him and he doesn't listen to anyone. I have no clue why TS Eliot lost his shit over this book. I now have little respect for him. Not only does he rip off Ulysses but he backs a piece of garbage as one of the 20th century's greatest novel. This book is garbage and needs to be forgotten. It's only resurfaced in recent years due to TS Eliot backing it and because she was a female modernist writer in the early 20th century.

[Anonymous No.10314255]

Goddamn this fucking board is ruined.

[Anonymous No.10314266]

>>10314255
People questioning academics has totally ruined the board?

[Anonymous No.10314279]

I had to read The Secret History, talk about exaggeration and bullshit!

[Anonymous No.10314300]

>>10314266
Leftist academia has unquestionable dogmatic authority, didn't you know?

[Anonymous No.10314301]

>>10311185
I know this is a joke, but you're completely right.

[Anonymous No.10314317]

>>10314300
That's why we have to defer to them whenever they advocate for ideologies hostile to us. Doing otherwise degrades the board.

[Anonymous No.10314320]

>>10314300
Marxism really is just a religion for degenerates

[Anonymous No.10314334]

>>10314317
If we use the magic spell "go back to /pol/" enough, then we may one day be free of all heresy.

[Anonymous No.10314344]

>>10311178
>Waaah I'm being forced to read outside of my intellectual comfort zone, someone please give me texts that coddle me in an echo chamber of my own opinions

[Anonymous No.10314347]

>>10313932
>Bell Hooks
Man I forgot about that. Just triggered my ex-girlfriend PTSD brah.

[Anonymous No.10314359]

>>10314344
I don't think there would be as much complaint if universities were accepting of other points of view and open debate, rather than being leftist indoctrination centers.

[Anonymous No.10314406]

>>10314344
Most books rooted in intersectionality have less depth than the Twitter posts they inspire. Reading them is intellectually insulting if anything.

[Anonymous No.10314413]

>>10313932
>mindpozzed
i'm gonna use that from now on

[Anonymous No.10314418]

>>10314359
So if I'm getting this right, if a six foot tall leftist academia came over and slapped your gf on the ass you'd just let it happen and then complain to /pol/ about it later

[Anonymous No.10314420]

>>10311178
should have pick stem my lad

[Anonymous No.10314426]

>>10314418
Academia is practically the fourth branch of government in the US. It's naive to underestimate its influence.

[Anonymous No.10314431]

>>10314418
If I didn't want my career ruined, probably.

[Anonymous No.10314439]

>>10314420
>picked stem
>I'm a sexist, woman-hating, misogynistic, male-elitist for not letting women cheat off me on tests or for not doing their homework for them
>I'm a sexist, woman-hating, misogynistic, male-elitist who thinks women can't do stem for letting women cheat off me and helping them with their homework

[Anonymous No.10314456]

>>10314431
Sure sound like oppression to me. I can't imagine the nights you've cried yourself to sleep thinking, "why did I have to be born with these opinions? Why can't they accept me for who I am? Just cause I think niggers should be deported and women should be placed in concentration fuck camps for incels doesn't mean I'm not deserving of love and respect too."

[Anonymous No.10314489]

>>10314439
Why the fuck wouldn't you help a hot stemchick with her homework? Fucking gay

[Anonymous No.10314490]

>>10312207
>I had "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft assigned 8 times during my undergrad.

Well, to be fair, this is as much a leftism issue as it is a teachers-being-lazy issue. With some exceptions, profs are not that creative when it comes to planning the syllabus, plus they don't communicate with each other as they should, which leads to a ton of repetition. I had "Eveline" by Joyce and Moll Flanders by Defoe assigned to me 4 and 3 times respectively during the same fucking semester. Many classmates handed in the same paper multiple times. For most teachers, SJWism is just a newfangled facet of a more general stupidity.

>>10313932
Too true. If any of you are currently majoring in humanities, the best way to identify the 1% of classmates who are not idiots is to see who's talking and who's not during classes. Most intelligent people stay relatively silent these days because they know their ideas will not be validated or even acknowledged in that environment.

>>10314344
I can't speak for everyone here, but I don't even think I have an intellectual comfort one. I just like dialog and good books. I wouldn't even mind reading bell hooks or Ta-Nehisi Coates in class if they weren't being taught as sacred texts, which they most definitely are.

Hell, I even like one Toni Morrison book (The Bluest Eye), but I also think she's senile and has descended into self-parody, which is a completely impossible opinion to have in modern academia, where she's universally hailed as the Best Author Alive.

[Anonymous No.10314510]

>>10312246
>Sodomite.
Lighten up buddy.

[Anonymous No.10314521]

>>10313932
>Funny how postfordist ideological apparatuses end up overlapping.
What does this sentence mean?

[Anonymous No.10314531]

>>10314490
Looks like you have overblown your own perception of Morrison. Check out Sula, Song of Solomon, and some of the various critical essays she's put out. She dipped after the mid 90s but the merits of her stronger works are readily apparent, especially given that you've recognized it yourself.

[Anonymous No.10314533]

>>10314456
Keep swinging at those strawmen, buddy.

[Anonymous No.10314554]

>>10314418
So this is the power of leftist debate...

[Anonymous No.10314563]

>>10314554
Remember: leftist counter-arguments only employ as hominims and memetic catchphrase responses.

[Anonymous No.10314569]

>>10314563
*ad hominims
I blame iPhone

[Anonymous No.10314577]

>>10314531
I admit not to reading Song of Solomon even after a teacher recommended it specifically to me after reading my paper on The Bluest Eye. I'm aware that her 90's output is probably good, but her current opinion pieces are nauseating and still get hoisted up as fact.

Hell, even saying "I do not think Toni Morrison is the best English-language author alive" can get you bad looks, even though there's people like Roth, McCarthy or Vollmann kicking about. The only way you can get away with it is by naming other woman as your favorite, like Atwood or LeGuin (both of whom I like a lot, btw).

[Anonymous No.10314581]

>>10314533
>>10314554
>Skim milkers can't take a bit of bants
I can see why you're afraid that the professors grading your papers can't take you seriously since you can't even take yourself jokingly.

[Anonymous No.10314583]

>>10314569
It's ad hominem

[Anonymous No.10314585]

>>10314563
Sure sounds like some cuck soyboy poz feelings shit to me

[Anonymous No.10314590]

>>10314581
>>10314585
You're about to say "I was only pretending to be retarded!"

[Anonymous No.10314592]

>>10314577
>Opinion pieces
>Hoisted up as fact
Again, I think you're sorely misrepresenting her, if not also misunderstanding her.

[Anonymous No.10314600]

>>10314569
You're not supposed to admit to phoneposting. You couldn't help it ofc being fully mindpozzed by Apple. You've become Native Advertisment.

[Anonymous No.10314603]

>>10314590
I don't need to hide myself like an o p p r e s s e d conservative

[Anonymous No.10314608]

>>10314603
lol

[Anonymous No.10314609]

>Unironically being an Am**ican

Holy shit I pity you. The only left for you is a quick painless suicide

[Anonymous No.10314643]

>>10314592
What's your argument here?
How am I misrepresenting her choice to blast all white people in a terrible piece called "Whiteness" the day after Trump won, for instance? How is that a productive reaction? How is that not gross simplification of a complex issue and self-parody of the worse racial impulses of her writing?

I'm neither white nor American, btw, so I don't have a stake on Trump or anything. And I'm not even saying it's her fault, she can write whatever the hell she wants. It's academia's uncritical acceptance of everything she says that is laughable.

Now that I recall, I did read another book by her: Jazz. I had mostly forgotten about it because it was so bland and indulgent.

[Anonymous No.10314897]

>>10313409
>>10313420
Moderation is for Reddit. Go back there, faggots.

[Anonymous No.10314908]

>>10312161
How in hell is Aphra Behn proto-feminist? Oroonoko was written in defense of the Stuart monarchy.

[Anonymous No.10314918]

>>10314897
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.10314919]

>>10314609

I guarantee whatever shithole country you live in is several orders of magnitude worse, unless it's Switzerland

[Anonymous No.10314939]

>>10311178
I took a class on English literature between 1660 and 1832 a few years ago. The syllabus was alright, but a few books stood out:

Olaudah Equiano was assigned, despite the fact that his work has pretty much no literary merit
Defoe's Moll Flanders
Behn's Oroonoko
Haywood's Fantomina
Richardson's Clarissa

The professor wasn't a raging leftie although he was definitely left-leaning, but he was clearly aiming for a certain number of female/minority authors and books about women.

[Anonymous No.10315688]

>>10313569
Read this in one of my entry level anthropology classes. The key thing we were supposed to take away from it was that Jared Daimond was a biologist and not an anthropologist. Worse, an armchair anthropologist, and the more you read the book the more this became evident.

[Anonymous No.10315707]

>>10312231
Fucking hot, source?

[Anonymous No.10315710]

a bunch of jane austen books, drudged through them all and read brave new world during that one class just to keep me from breaking

[Anonymous No.10315718]

>>10313910
Understanding Human History by Michael Hart, which is intended as a rebuttal to Guns, Germs, and Steel.

[Anonymous No.10315742]

>>10314344
I agree, when do we read The Camp of the Saints?

[Anonymous No.10315757]

>>10314643
Not that anon but he seems to want to you to read and judge her on her works and not just opinion pieces.

[Anonymous No.10315771]

>>10312207
>Leftism=Liberalism
Peterson tier retardation

[Anonymous No.10315778]

>>10312252
Shakespeare was black. Get your facts straight, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.10315779]

>>10315771
>DUDE LEFT AND LIBERALS
Jesus, go back to the Sassy Socialist Memes comments section, everyone knows about this

[Anonymous No.10315782]

>>10313247
another white man whose writing career peaked in high school, what a surprise

[Anonymous No.10315786]

>>10313409
lol, i've never seen someone get this worked up over such a small amount of imagined power

[Anonymous No.10315790]

>>10314102
you're either lying, or paying / paid for your degree

[Anonymous No.10315798]

>>10315779
>everyone knows about this
I need to be on the 4chan you are on coz no they do not

[Anonymous No.10315826]

A House something something something. I don't remember the name of the book, but it was the true story of a dumb roastie whore who decided she wanted to go out and travel to third world countries on her own. Not surprisingly, she gets arrested and raped by a bunch of niggers and muzzies, and then by the end, she feels bad for her attackers. Fuck that bitch and fuck the school for promoting her stupidity and trying to champion her. I think her name was Amanda something.

[Anonymous No.10316097]

>>10311211
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.10316356]

>>10314150
hmmm weird that I'm almost 100 pages in and I haven't noticed a single instance of ad hom attacks directed at anybody desu...

>implying Adolf Hitler doesn't deserve to be called names

[Anonymous No.10316417]

>>10314154
>because black men commit a metric fuckton of crime
>and culturally value being disrespectful and uncooperative with police
>and also joining a gang
>where they sell heroin and crack on street corners 24/7
>while carrying a loaded and unregistered handgun
>black men are dying (not fast enough)

[Anonymous No.10316428]

>>10311178
I got suspended and put under disciplinary action because a tutor (now a Greens member of parliament) said I was manspreading. I forget what we had to read in that class but basically whatever was there
>>10311202
lmao basically. I know a "national socialist" who is a darkie pajeet. He's the indian uncle ruckus its hilarious how the majority of white nats arent white

[Anonymous No.10316454]

>>10311185
agreed lessers need to understand their place

[Anonymous No.10316503]

>>10314577
You like Atwood "a lot"? Wow

[Anonymous No.10317069]

>>10314140
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a brainlet's history of the period. You would have bee better off reading Speer's Inside the Third Reich and John Toland's Hitler biography.

[sin No.10317266]

This cunt confused the lack of proper parenting for teenage angst and racism.

Trees were killed so that she could go on for a page about her first blow job.

In the blurb on the back cover, it promises an exploration of identity, when it's really how her first boyfriend explored her cunt and ass.

The author presupposes that the reader is a retard.

[Anonymous No.10317388]

>>10316428
Indians are the OG aryans

[Anonymous No.10317391]

>>10312486
jews are only good at science, sometimes at music. painting, sculpture, even literature? not so much.

[Anonymous No.10317395]

>>10317266
what class?

[Anonymous No.10317405]

>>10317391
No, no, no, they're only good at things that require verbal intelligence. They're brainlets when it comes to STEM

[sin No.10317456]

>>10317395
Critical Thinking Skills

The professor was absolute shit, but his curriculum was well designed, however.

[Anonymous No.10317828]

>>10316417
>sitting on the corner cause i'm homeless
>police yelling at me for some reason
>chokehold me, i'm dead
>inform officer i'm carrying a handgun and would like to surrender it
>officer shoots me
>"crime"

[Anonymous No.10317843]

>>10313569

What responsible institution would assign this shit?

[Anonymous No.10317851]

>>10314102

Of all the lies I've read on 4chan, this is one of the most implausible.

[Anonymous No.10317884]

>>10317405
>what is einsteinium

[Anonymous No.10317896]

>>10311185

Hey, Jews and Chinks are OK too.

[Anonymous No.10317908]

>>10317391
the greatest artists of the 20th century were jewish.

the greatest poet (Paul Celan)? jewish
the greatest composer (Morton Feldman)? jewish
the greatest architect (Louis Kahn)? jewish
in literature we have Kafka, Proust, Jabes, Levinas, (Gertrude) Stein
in the visual arts we have El Lissitsky, Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Jules Olitski, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Aaron Siskind, Alfred Stieglitz (arguably the single most important photographer of the century), Sol LeWitt, Jacques Lipchitz

the list goes on and on

[Anonymous No.10317914]

>>10317884
Einstein was a plagiarist. Take the redpill

[Anonymous No.10317916]

>>10315757
1) Opinion pieces are also literature, and as such they do get taught in modern campuses.
2) I have read 2 of her works and those same themes and positions, though embellished, are still there.

>>10316503
What? I haven't read her complete works or anything, but what little I have read seems to me the work of a good (maybe not great) writer.

Let me guess: you're one of those philistines who think she's shit because TV and the SJW media told you The Handmaid's Tale is a hardcore feminist book when it's actually not.

[Anonymous No.10317949]

>>10317908
>artists of the 20th century
lmfao

[Anonymous No.10318027]

I had to read this before I started my first semester. Assigned to everyone, regardless of major. This wasn't a military school.

[Anonymous No.10318098]

>>10317949
nice refutation, brainlet

[Anonymous No.10318119]

>>10317908
>the greatest composer (Morton Feldman)?
There are better choices. I'd take Schoenberg or Reich over Feldman any day, and there's a great deal of gentile composers who were better too.

[Anonymous No.10318147]

>>10318098
head to the louvre and check out the surnames

[Anonymous No.10318162]

I had to read "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. fucking horseshit, equated the war on drugs and drug incarceration as a new jim crow system. So I wrote a paper on it and debunked it.

Surprise surprise, your economic level reveals a lot about how you might act

[Anonymous No.10318167]

>>10314102
I worked in a writing center mostly with MFA students and this was honestly true. Everyone was a harry potter fan. Some were also specializing in children's lit which helps to explain some of the ya obsession. It wasn't a great MFA program, but no one there was reading anything more sophisticated than Kurt Vonnegut

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>>10311185
>morally
Just go with the IQ meme next time

[Anonymous No.10318198]

>>10312252
>Who invented the masterpieces of art, the culture, the civilization
>Men. White men.
That's not how you spell "Sumerians".

[Anonymous No.10318285]

>>10314154
i mean, sure, your point is very valid when you pick the most extreme example possible

[Anonymous No.10318297]

This isn't reading related but on the first day of my global studies course my professor asked me to explain my inherent privilege to the class.

[Anonymous No.10318298]

>>10314154
what good is 'literature' for when black people are dying out there? that's the point of the poem. you can afford not to care, some people can't.

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>>10312252

[Anonymous No.10318551]

>>10318147
I said 20th century, brainlet
>>10318119
Schoenberg and Webern are good contenders, Reich no

[Anonymous No.10319726]

>>10313568
I enjoyed this unironically

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>>10315790
>>10317851
While i haven't studied eng lit i wouldn't be that surprised. I've always looked at the dissertation and thesis titles that come out of the lit department and its insane how many are focused on YA. Even more common (and surprising) is the amount on fanfiction though.

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>>10313568
Good

[Anonymous No.10319785]

>>10315710
You read a shitty book to get through good books?

[Anonymous No.10319819]

>>10318551
>I said 20th century, brainlet
what does degenerate art have to do with my original claim?

[Anonymous No.10320736]

>>10317405
Stop saying this every thread. It's objectively false. Verbal IQ is highly highly correlated with the math kind. It's rare that they deviate much. The nobel winners in physics are like half Jews.

[Anonymous No.10321955]

>>10319819
>degenerate art
hallmark non-argument of the aesthetically-illiterate brainlet
>m-muh tradition, m-muh beauty!
lmaoing at your life

[Anonymous No.10321966]

>>10313284
It's good to read liberal trash if you have the capacity to resist it, but most college students don't, extremely the contrary

[Anonymous No.10322040]

>>10321966
ie. most students suffer from a little something called empathy and basic human decency
I'm certain 'right wing' and 'Un-PC' beliefs boil down to privileged people who suffer from a deficit of empathy, because they can afford NOT to care, see post related for example.
>>10314091

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>>10322040
An argument can be made for unwarranted empathy too, when you claim to love everyone you truly love no-one. That is the gist of conservative and traditionalist thinking that there are degrees of kinship not the "tree hugging love" liberals use to espouse.

[Anonymous No.10323382]

>>10322040
>>10323358
also when you go on to the real world away from university, your ideal of free love will hit hard with the reality of life. Life is suffering, no amount of love can help the hunger of a child in some shithole
in Middle East. It is rational to only care about your family. Don't blame us using your cuck definition of empathy.

[Anonymous No.10323385]

My problem was that my theatre department didn't value reading enough. They hated text-based drama, and favored collaborative productions instead. All of the heavy text classes I took were electives with very old, very traditional teachers who just liked teaching the classics. Those were great, though, and I took as many as I could. Lots of working on individual classic monologues.

[Anonymous No.10323433]

>>10322040
>I'm certain 'right wing' and 'Un-PC' beliefs boil down to privileged people who suffer from a deficit of empathy, because they can afford NOT to care, see post related for example.
I've never seen a left-winger give empathy the term empathy any other meaning than "feeling in accordance with my political beliefs." Their use of the term is a rather underhanded tactic to make the opponents seem mentally deficient, bt if you press them enough, you'll always learn that whatever sense of empathy they do have is applied arbitrarily.

[Anonymous No.10323457]

>>10313260
damn... i wish i could be as badass as you.

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>>10322040
>privileged people who suffer from a deficit of empathy
that's not it at all. there are simply too many "causes" to keep track of, so one must ration their empathy.

"Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned to care for one another—we’re gonna save the fuckin’ planet? I’m gettin’ tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. Tired. "
-George Carlin

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>it's an American doesn't understand the word liberal thread

oh boy

[Anonymous No.10325017]

>>10312252
>who created the white world? Who invented the masterpieces of art, the culture, the civilization, the technological innovation, the medicine, the nuclear bomb?
jews

[Anonymous No.10325019]

>>10317405
>FINE!!!! Jews can be smart but they're not allowed to be smart in areas i value >:(

[Anonymous No.10325049]

>>10314344
This would be a valid response if the humanities also enforced the reading of conservative literature, but they don't at all. It is all liberal all the time.

[Anonymous No.10325053]

>>10314939
What was wrong with Equiano? Not all classic literature has to be fictional.

[Anonymous No.10325109]

>>10325017
this but unironically
true master race (+chosen people)

>tfw i responded to this same comment 2 days ago

[Anonymous No.10325146]

The critical response to this one is interesting because it's one of the earlier examples of post 60s lefties eating themselves.

[Anonymous No.10325150]

>>10315771
>>Leftism=Liberalism
>mentions the two separately
You're dumb

[Anonymous No.10325154]

>>10314521
Treating people like machines.

[Anonymous No.10325161]

I had to read a bunch of Toni Morrison books for an English II class since it is not my native language. I remember being upset about it initially because in English I we ready a variety, and here we were to spend an entire semester on 1 author. I ended up not reading any of them cover to cover, skimming as needed, checking Sparknotes, and (this was key) parroting how great and underrepresented this piece of black literature was. All I had to do for every discussion and assignment was frame things in some generic victimized light. I got an A+.

[Anonymous No.10325193]

>>10311178
>Liberal bull
"I'm not going to COMPEL you to clean it with your mouth, OP. I know you'll do it of your own accord."

[Anonymous No.10325349]

>>10318162
Care to give an example on how it's bullshit? You can't argue that the criminal justice system targets blacks specifically.