We Need a Less Moralistic Humanities

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BidenPresident

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Sometimes it’s OK to side with the devil.

For the last decade or so, we have witnessed a period of renewed moral activism — think Occupy Wall Street, the Black Lives Matter movement, and #MeToo, to say nothing of student demands for safe spaces and a heightened sensitivity to potentially offensive expression. Campus monuments honoring slave owners, perpetrators of genocide, colonialists, and racists are removed; department buildings and ethnographic film festivals are renamed.

As an anthropologist of science, however, I can’t help wondering how telling good from bad has become such a pervasive practice. Shouldn’t anthropologists be primarily concerned with telling true from false? I

https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-need-a-less-moralistic-humanities
 
I hope this article will be read by all woke critics. I am one of them. But we need to understand the difference between being moralistic and being ethical.
 
"literary theorist Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has proposed that the humanities abandon the goal of moral betterment (as if their faculty members could claim moral superiority over people in other walks of life)
 
Enrollment in the humanities is plummeting because they have been ruined by the WOKE Revolution. There is no longer any value in them other than a WOKE Commissar credential, and the grievance studies are a better WOKE credential.
 
BidenPresident said:
Wow. You might want to read the article.
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why should I read an obvious propaganda piece designed to do exactly what I said it does? As a vocal Libertarian voter I had a multitude of trump haters and liberals tell me that the 2020 election was 'too important' and 'fuck my principles', all in the quest to vote out trump.........meaning that I should have ignored my own morals and principles and side with the devil, i.e. Biden..........or another way to put it would be to do a little evil in order to avoid a bigger evil.

I see no reason to give up my morals or principles to make your nazi dumbass feel better about society
 
SmarterthanYou said:
why should I read an obvious propaganda piece designed to do exactly what I said it does? As a vocal Libertarian voter I had a multitude of trump haters and liberals tell me that the 2020 election was 'too important' and 'fuck my principles', all in the quest to vote out trump.........meaning that I should have ignored my own morals and principles and side with the devil, i.e. Biden..........or another way to put it would be to do a little evil in order to avoid a bigger evil.

I see no reason to give up my morals or principles to make your nazi dumbass feel better about society
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Amazing you show how ignorant you are.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Enrollment in the humanities is plummeting because they have been ruined by the WOKE Revolution. There is no longer any value in them other than a WOKE Commissar credential, and the grievance studies are a better WOKE credential.
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You sound like you have never set foot in a university class.
 
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