Worst of Social Justice

[Ultimate Paragon]

...This explains so much.

[Barbarella]

...This explains so much.

Oh yeah!

[RavynousHunter]

...This explains so much.

Shit, I just do it reflexively, at this point.  People tend to take you more seriously when you at least TRY to use proper grammar, spelling, and syntax.  You end up sounding more intelligent, which is kinda important when it comes to a debate.

[Art Vandelay]

...This explains so much.

Shit, I just do it reflexively, at this point.  People tend to take you more seriously when you at least TRY to use proper grammar, spelling, and syntax.  You end up sounding more intelligent, which is kinda important when it comes to a debate.

thAts ablust, Check ur privledge. shitlourd?

[Sigmaleph]

...This explains so much.

If you hang out on Tumblr enough you start to notice there's a lot of spellings/grammar/punctuation conventions used to convey tone (it happens everywhere online, Tumblr just likes to talk about it a lot for some reason).

(I'm doing it right now)

In that convention, short, flippant posts look wrong with full capitalization and spelling. Not saying it's good or bad, just, y'know, language is what it is. It's basically Tumblr equivalent of making fun of people for having a different accent.

seriously why do you think I do things like adding random y'knows to text and appending posts with 6pt commentary. ~conveying tone through text~

[Ghoti]

Why the fuck are you in college if you aren't going to listen to anything your professors say? I mean obviously there are shitheads in academia because there are shitheads everywhere, but if you have zero intention of listening to your professors' ""facts"" or of respecting their  ""intellectual" authority on anything" then why are you even there? If you already feel/know that you're 100% right 100% of the time just skip higher ed and get some job experience.

[ironbite]

Because these people need to feel superior to everyone around them for whatever reason.

[mellenORL]

Somebody's gonna be one righteous, intellectual giant of a barista when they're 38.

[RavynousHunter]

Honestly, I think my calculus professor doesn't know how to really do derivatives.  My gut tells me I have to subtract 2 from everything, and my gut cannot be wrong.

[Sigmaleph]

Why the fuck are you in college if you aren't going to listen to anything your professors say? I mean obviously there are shitheads in academia because there are shitheads everywhere, but if you have zero intention of listening to your professors' ""facts"" or of respecting their  ""intellectual" authority on anything" then why are you even there? If you already feel/know that you're 100% right 100% of the time just skip higher ed and get some job experience.

...questioning people is not the same as assuming they are know nothing?

You should question the things you are taught at uni (preferably not during the lecture itself though! if it's more than a short simple question it's best to wait until class is over/office hours, otherwise you will piss off your classmates). Critical thinking and all that, it's one of the things you're meant to get better at through higher education.

If someone knows a lot about calculus but also thinks gay people shouldn't marry, it's OK to learn calculus from them and then think they are speaking out of their ass on gay marriage.

[Eiki-mun]

You probably should respect their intellectual authority on some things, though. Like, say, the thing they're teaching?

[Ultimate Paragon]

Guess who the outrage brigade is targeting this time?

If you guessed Meryl Streep, you're right!

https://archive.is/xyCHi

In early September, Streep sent a package to each member of Congress urging him or her to support the Equal Rights Amendment, which would make it illegal to discriminate against women. She whooped when Patricia Arquette spoke about equal pay at the Oscars ... But for some reason she doesn’t feel comfortable calling herself a feminist.

You.  You fanatics are the "some reason".  Fact is, the main reason people don't want to call themselves feminists is because they don't want to be associated with people like this:



If you want more people to call themselves "feminists," then condemn these extremists for what they are.

[ironbite]

......is that supposed to be someone we know or....?

Ironbite-OH WAIT I KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING!

[guizonde]

You probably should respect their intellectual authority on some things, though. Like, say, the thing they're teaching?

i dunno, my medieval techniques teacher taught us on the first day to take everything he said with a grain of salt and to try and disprove him on occasion. if we managed to catch him cold we'd get respect for following (also, showing we studied) and he'd be kept sharp on his subject. it was his way of dodging complacency, so it was mutually beneficial. happened three times during the semester. the rest of the time he obliterated smartasses, but i still caught him cold once. (don't ask how many times i got my ass handed to me.)

as of this year, he's still practicing this technique, so i heard.

[Canadian Mojo]

Or maybe she is a humanist.

She's got a good number of years under her belt watching the world evolve and hasn't exactly been kicked in the teeth for the crime of having a uterus so the idea that she is more of an egalitarian really isn't that far fetched.