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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why OP is saying that things like feminism or Marxism are faddish.  These ideologies have been around for hundreds of years if not more … at what point do they stop being a fad?  Does OP also think that women wearing pants is a passing fad?  Or representative democracy?

I posted above about the podcast talking about the feminist and radical political messages in Canterbury tales.  These themes have been in literature forever.  And talking about them makes old stuff more relevant to readers of today.   I’m a huge Tolstoy fan and studied it in college — even then we talked about tolstory’s really complicated and troublesome attitudes towards women.  I don’t see how you can read Tolstoy or Austin  or Dickinson without talking about feminism or how you can read dickens or Shakespeare without talking about class politics.  
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The problem isn't talking about women or class.  Scholars have been talking about these things long before the woke ideologues came along.

What's happening now is very different.  The main problem is identity politics where mediocre writers are promoted as literary greats in the name of diversity, and students either avoid the canon altogether or are taught to dismiss it as racist dead white males.[/quote]

You keep typing the BS, and when asked for evidence do not provide any.

Name a top college that doesn't teach Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens, Ibsen, Tolstoy, or the like.  None?  OK, name a lesser one that doesn't teach those.  None AGAIN?

Well then maybe your post is bullsh*t, Comrade Snowflake.[/quote]

The fact that she did not provide web links upon your command is not proof that what she said is inaccurate. Your thinking so is a logical fallacy, and your confidence in it is telling.

On web forums, people have discussions assuming the ones they are engaging with have a level of familiarity with topic at hand, enough to day I've seen that in person or have experienced it or have read about it, and agree or disagree with the perspective. Yelling show me proof means you are not able to engage on the topic in this way.

Lastly, your visceral outrage is something we are supposed to care about. Why is that?[/quote]

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