Think the Nazis invented the concentration camp? Nope. When the British couldn't defeat South African farmers, they invented the concentration camp to go after their wives and children.

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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You sound like a frustrated graduate student. You know, the people who did this to you aren't right-wingers. They're your fellow travelers. Academia is dominated by Marxists, and if they didn't want you around - well I can understand the rage you feel. There was an article I read or posted a few days ago about people like you. You read it, I assume, it's part of your job after all.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Absolutely. Yes. The government pays graduate students to fact-check chipit's posts on saidit. Hourly, not salaried. That's a totally normal addition to chipit's worldview. Now, the government pay graduate students by the hour to follow him online and fact check him. It's true.

But you forgot the reason why they do it. They have to fact-check you, because you're so hopelessly wrong all the time. You're gullible and completely incapable of scrutinising information if it's in favor of your bias. And so, to correct the record, the government pays graduate students hourly to follow you around the internet fact-checking you. Totally normal thing for chipit to add to his worldview guys.

Help wanted

Federal agency seeks internet fact-checker to correct a great mind of the conspiracy boards. Bachelors essential. Must agree to NDA.

Position is hourly with no healthcare. Eighteen bucks an hour.

Totally normal, chipit

Omg I love talking to you

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah, you don't work for the government. But I see what you did there. Make false claims and then pretend to debunk the claims you made. It's called strawmanning and is an essential tool in any paid poster's arsenal.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, which false claim did I make then pretend to debunk?

I know that you know the answer, but some people trying to follow along might not see it. So, please tell us what it was, help everyone see how duplicitous I've been

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They're your fellow travelers. Academia is dominated by Marxists

This would be "Marxists" who deny the existence of class struggle and are almost entirely members of the bourgeoisie, especially the managerial class and the elite class?

21st century academia has appropriated the language of Marxism for a completely anti-Marxist political philosophy that combines crony capitalism and right-wing authoritarianism with just enough fake "social justice" virtue signalling to fool useful idiots into thinking they are progressive.

Talk is cheap. Look at what they do, not what they say, and don't be fooled by their social justice performances which somehow never actually improve the lot of poor members of oppressed minorities, but only of privileged insiders who appropriate the label of "minority". They are as Marxist as Jeff Bezos, but without Bezos' kind and nurturing attitude towards the poor.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Those aren't real Marxists"

said the Marxist for the 11,348,008,173th time

come on, it's like you people's mantra

PS you posted from the wrong account, you forgot to change identities

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"Those aren't real Marxists"

said the Marxist for the 11,348,008,173th time

I'm not a Marxist, but I do know what Marxism is, unlike you. It's not just a word for the bogey-man. This may come as a shock, but it is possible for the world to contain more than one bad thing.

American academics use the language of Marxism for an ideology that is completely opposed to Marxism. In Marxism, class struggle between the working class and the bourgeoisie capitalist class is fundamental. You will never hear American woke academics talk about class struggle, except to accuse genuine socialists of being racist when they try to centre class instead of race. American academics, for the most part, are the bourgeoisie, either capitalists themselves or closely aligned to the capitalist class.

you posted from the wrong account, you forgot to change identities

What crack are you smoking?

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

American academics use the language of Marxism for an ideology that is completely opposed to Marxism.

Oh that's hilarious! Credentialed experts who work for our best universities don't know what it is, but you, random internet commenter, do.

"That's not real Marxism. Real Marxism has never been tried."

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Real Marxism has been tried many times. Every single time you have a company owned by a workers cooperative, that's real Marxism. Even the right-wing free-market Brookings Institute found that cooperatives tend to be at least as productive and often more efficient as conventional corporations.

We don't know how well Marxism scales up to the size of entire nations. I suspect it won't scale, but it is hard to tell because every single time it has been tried, the nation has been assaulted from all sides by enemies determined to make it fail. Those that survived for long have mostly moved to authoritarianism or totalitarianism.

Credentialed experts who work for our best universities

Yeah, these would be the "credentialed experts" who don't know the difference between men and women, who think that a man with a penis can just declare that he is a woman and that makes it true.

The same people who think that words are actual violence, but actual violence isn't (so long as its the good people committing violence against the bad people). The same people who think that black people are literally incapable of being racist, no matter how badly they are prejudiced and biased against white people, or how often they commit discrimination and direct race-based violence. That Asians are "white-adjacent" and so when a black man attacks a Chinese woman for no reason, he's the real victim.

The same "credentialed experts" who declare that any talk about economic class is "racist" and off-limits, the same "credentialed experts" who think that there is an epidemic of violence against "trans gender" people, and who believe that men can be pregnant and having a period has nothing to do with the uterus.

Don't talk to me about "credentialed experts" in America colleges. They are frauds and crooks.

Yes, I do know what Marxism is. And it is nothing like the petty bourgeoisie identity politics of American academia. Words are cheap, actions are what matters. Marxists care about economic class and the one thing that we're not allowed to talk about in identity politics is economic class.

Lenin would have had them sent to work in the salt mines. Stalin would have had them shot.