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tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-03-17 07:32 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-03-17 07:32 pm
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Why a liberal arts education isn't always a good thing, or why I need to stay out of the social sciences...
Things I've Learned in my History of American Imperialism Class
Please, please, please, someone, anyone, kick the women's studies majors out of my class. And the psych majors too. And kick out half the socialists and replace them with neocons. Then we can have interesting class discussions. Oh, and kindly take the poststructuralist and the Plato-ist to a philosophy class, where they can bicker without disturbing the rest of us. Good grief. The presence of so many liberals is almost enough to make me turn into a conservative.
Things I've Learned in my History of American Imperialism Class
- The US dropped the bomb on Japan, not because they wanted to win the war, not because they wanted to scare Soviet Russia... but because they perceived the Japanese as racially inferior.
- Home decoration in the mid-19th century was not only a precursor to feminism as we know it, but it was also relevant to US foreign policy.
- ... as was pre-WWII working-class homosexuality.
- US imperialism in the Philippines was motivated by gender roles. No, really.
- Theodore Roosevelt's 'big stick' policy was motivated by internalized homophobia. And I think there was something about an Oedipus complex too.
- If you can't find a justification for your argument, sling mud at America and/or rich white men.
- Everything bad that's ever happened in the world is the fault of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, the patriarchy, homophobia, heterosexism, Christianity, classism, capitalism, nationalism, George W. Bush, or any combination of the above. EVERYTHING. Plain old human greed and mistakes play no part in it, except that greed props up the evil capitalist system.
- Marx was right. Period.
Please, please, please, someone, anyone, kick the women's studies majors out of my class. And the psych majors too. And kick out half the socialists and replace them with neocons. Then we can have interesting class discussions. Oh, and kindly take the poststructuralist and the Plato-ist to a philosophy class, where they can bicker without disturbing the rest of us. Good grief. The presence of so many liberals is almost enough to make me turn into a conservative.