I am being forced to sign a paper that says racism bad, woe is me, literally 1980

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In Soviet Russia, any academic would face a similar requirement to declare allegiance to the principles of Marx and Lenin

    What the fuck is he even talking about here? Is there even a remote kernel of truth this is being wildly misinterpreted from or was it pulled whole-cloth straight from his ass?

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netOPM
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      It’s a Frankenstein combination of the anecdotes they learned in high school about how USSR bad. Liberals are inherently academically dishonest, so I wouldn’t discount the possibility of them just inventing it then and there because it “feels right”

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        Yeah, even if they couldn’t find proof of it, they would insist it “probably happened, so we should assume it did.” or “They just didn’t keep records of it, but it happened.” or “They did even worse things, so they must’ve done this too!”

        They have like, 3 canned responses when called out. It gets so tiring.