Woke professor seriously claims time is sideways not forward

[Mysterious Milkk]

Had a ridiculous woke professor who claimed that the world was actually upside down


It was absolutely ridiculous, no joke. She claimed that the world map as we see it is racist because Europe is on top while Africa and South America are in the bottom, and that in Oceania they view the world as upside down because our concepts of north and south are arbitrary. She later claimed that what we view as time is arbitrary as time is not forwards or backwards but rather sideways (I have no idea what this means). Her example was that in Ethiopia they’re technically in the year 2012.
She taught us that historians should not follow Leopold Van Ranke’s approach to historical artifacts which is about approaching history objectively without bias and kept on talking about why objectivity was bad.


Lol she claimed England’s invention of time was racist despite the fact that England actually falls in the prime meridian, of course it is not the only country that does so, but it is one of the few countries that does.

Some other ridiculous claims:
“History will judge me” is a stupid statement
Said Latinx is a thing
Claimed that history begins when a country adopts the roman alphabet and any country that didn’t is seen as “weird” (ex.Egypt and China)

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Our faggot ""history teacher"" tried to tell me history doesn't repeat, NOR rhyme. Don't even get me started on our "russian culture" course that started off with our "teacher" trying to make us read a (confirmed) Dyke's book about "finding herself in the bigoted land of Russ". Americandan schools are a massive joke, but it does explain why so many misfits and nigger-loving retards are pumped out of them. Just an over-priced adult daycare center used to get a piece of paper which clears you for shabbos jobs later in life.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

While the rest of that is some pretty great lunacy, the thing about maps being upside down actually started as merely a criticism to keep in mind that other people view the world differently. It's a good example for historiography because everyone can understand it, it's not actually supposed to suggest that the polar North is an arbitrary distinction. Usually you're supposed to also use the example of how the traditional maps enlarge certain countries and shrink others because of flattening out the globe. Your professor seems to be one of those idiots who started reading shit, decided they had figured it out immediately and missed the point completely. You're not supposed to discern that there's no truth or objective reality, you're supposed to merely become skeptical about any one thing being this. Actually, re-reading I think many of your examples follow this. Someone told her about these things to show that others have different worldviews and she completely misunderstood. I would suspect she's one of those people who can only comprehend black-and-white concepts so since one thing cannot be entirely true, it must be completely false and nothing can be true. (Except of course all the things she believes to be true.)

 

[Beak Thing]

Our faggot ""history teacher"" tried to tell me history doesn't repeat, NOR rhyme. Don't even get me started on our "russian culture" course that started off with our "teacher" trying to make us read a (confirmed) Dyke's book about "finding herself in the bigoted land of Russ". Americandan schools are a massive joke, but it does explain why so many misfits and nigger-loving retards are pumped out of them. Just an over-priced adult daycare center used to get a piece of paper which clears you for shabbos jobs later in life.

That's godawful...I took a Russian/Soviet film course in college as an elective, it was really interesting and covered the Soviet period through present dayRussia.

There was this one film we watched that came out in the 2000's whose name I can't remember, but it was incredibly good and very moving...it was about a father who has been out of the family's life (most likely in prison) returns and takes his sons on a trip to an island to bond with them and it ends with terrible tragedy..

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

While the rest of that is some pretty great lunacy, the thing about maps being upside down actually started as merely a criticism to keep in mind that other people view the world differently. It's a good example for historiography because everyone can understand it, it's not actually supposed to suggest that the polar North is an arbitrary distinction. Usually you're supposed to also use the example of how the traditional maps enlarge certain countries and shrink others because of flattening out the globe. Your professor seems to be one of those idiots who started reading shit, decided they had figured it out immediately and missed the point completely. You're not supposed to discern that there's no truth or objective reality, you're supposed to merely become skeptical about any one thing being this. Actually, re-reading I think many of your examples follow this. Someone told her about these things to show that others have different worldviews and she completely misunderstood. I would suspect she's one of those people who can only comprehend black-and-white concepts so since one thing cannot be entirely true, it must be completely false and nothing can be true. (Except of course all the things she believes to be true.)

North/South is an arbitrary distinction. You could switch them and turn the globe upside down and it would be just as accurate, because neither pole is pointing "up" in any sense.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

North/South is an arbitrary distinction. You could switch them and turn the globe upside down and it would be just as accurate, because neither pole is pointing "up" in any sense.

While I see what you're getting at I think the existence of a magnetic pole suggests we shouldn't necessarily consider it arbitrary. When the next pole switch comes our GPSes will fail simply because the maps will be wrong and not because it will lead to a global upheaval that will destroy our way of life.

 

[Null]

I took filmography 101 as an elective and i was told on day 1 that all movies produced in the west, including chick flicks, are made first she foremost for white men. This was like 12 years ago too

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[Dr. Funk]

I had an anthropology teacher use the "upside down world map" thing in a lecture once. I actually quite like that example because it perfectly illustrates how something can be a social construct yet based on objective things that exist in the physical world. A map shown in one orientation is just as accurate of a map of our planet as any other. A map shown in a different projection type than the standard Mercator projection are also just as accurate despite them showing different relative sizes of continents and oceans. They both are accurate respectively to whatever projection technique is used to create them from the location of those things in the real world. Also a good demonstration of "the map is not the territory" and your understanding of something is only ever as good as your models, maps and projections, which are of course, not a substitute for the thing itself. Did early European mapmakers put north on top because it placed their own lands above everyone elses? I dunno maybe. If civilization had developed differently and the greatest empires of history had developed from the Southeren hemisphere, would south be seen as the "top" on world maps today? Who the hell knows, and probably not all that important in the grand scheme of things but a good teachable example of how social constructs affect our perception of reality.

Then you get the utter dipshits who think the existance of social constructs lets them ignore the existance of objective reality altogether, or that because they percieve something one way, it MUST be that way, and look at the mess that attitude has gotten us in.

 

[Un Platano]

While I see what you're getting at I think the existence of a magnetic pole suggests we shouldn't necessarily consider it arbitrary. When the next pole switch comes our GPSes will fail simply because the maps will be wrong and not because it will lead to a global upheaval that will destroy our way of life.

It's still arbitrary because whichever pole you're looking at, there is an equal and opposite pole on the other side of the earth. There's no "positive" or "negative" poles. Hell, while we're at it there's no "negative" or "positive" charges. It was arbitrarily decided 300 years ago that the charge carried by electrons would be called negative, and physics students have wished it were the other way around ever since.

Pole swapping would also not interfere with GPS. The satellites track their positions based on a system of ground based facilities that exist irrespective of the magnetic field. The concern with pole swapping isn't with the orientation of the poles at all, as the consequences of that would be minor. The concern is that while in the process of flipping directions the magnetic field will be weakened and the disaster scenario predicts that we and our electronics will get cooked by space radiation while this is happening.

 

[popnloch ness monster]

There was this one film we watched that came out in the 2000's whose name I can't remember

The Return

 

[Beak Thing]

The Return

THANK YOU

 

[Screamer_2]

A lot of stuff is "true" because of how we organise reality to understand it. We could organise it differently and it would still be true. This doesn't however mean there isn't any objective reality. This is the dumb mistake these morons make. Instead of understanding a reality. They think language dictates the reality.

 

[BULLY HUNTER_78]

Had a woke psychology teacher who insisted that more black disabled women had died in Iraq than white men.

Not including black women. Not including disabled women. The vast majority of casualties were both black and disabled. As if the US military had some sort of dedicated program to round up every disabled black women in America in order to send them to the front lines as cannon fodder.

 

[Alex Yiik]

This reminds me of the people who scrambled to come up with "proofs" that 2+2=5 if you apply some weird interpretation of the equation that contradicts the definitions of addition and/or equality. They knew or were told that mathematical notation is a man-made construct and then jumped to the extreme position that it's all arbitrary and malleable.

It's the kind of childish ACKSHUALLYing that you're supposed to grow out of when you hit middle school age and realize you don't really know much of anything at all, and you won't learn anything until you accept that.

 

[Gog & Magog]

I took filmography 101 as an elective and i was told on day 1 that all movies produced in the west, including chick flicks, are made first she foremost for white men. This was like 12 years ago too

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If I were you I'd take it as a compliment.
ALL movies in the west are made for white men? Hell yeah they are!!!

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

I had an anthropology teacher use the "upside down world map" thing in a lecture once. I actually quite like that example because it perfectly illustrates how something can be a social construct yet based on objective things that exist in the physical world. A map shown in one orientation is just as accurate of a map of our planet as any other. A map shown in a different projection type than the standard Mercator projection are also just as accurate despite them showing different relative sizes of continents and oceans. They both are accurate respectively to whatever projection technique is used to create them from the location of those things in the real world. Also a good demonstration of "the map is not the territory" and your understanding of something is only ever as good as your models, maps and projections, which are of course, not a substitute for the thing itself. Did early European mapmakers put north on top because it placed their own lands above everyone elses? I dunno maybe. If civilization had developed differently and the greatest empires of history had developed from the Southeren hemisphere, would south be seen as the "top" on world maps today? Who the hell knows, and probably not all that important in the grand scheme of things but a good teachable example of how social constructs affect our perception of reality.

Then you get the utter dipshits who think the existance of social constructs lets them ignore the existance of objective reality altogether, or that because they percieve something one way, it MUST be that way, and look at the mess that attitude has gotten us in.

Putting North up is arbitrary, sure, but 90% of humans live north of the equator and almost 70% of landmass is in the northern hemisphere. It might be arbitrary, but it better serves not only those old white europeans everyone likes to complain about, but literally billions of others of every race. Upside down maps are fun academically, but for practical purposes having a standardized model that benefits the most people possible is useful enough to establish that arbitrary standard as a universal practice. Most of the social constructs these lunatics screech about are arbitrary, and theoretically may not be entirely necessary, but they exist for historical reasons, which usually suggest a useful reason to keep them around today. You CAN dissolve every social construct, but then you'll end up dissolving society, and good luck with how that will turn out for you. Marginalized groups tend not to thrive in any environment except well-regimented egalitarian modern societies. See how well being the "other" works when people have to decide between feeding their normal friends, family, and neighbors, and feeding the weirdos who aren't like them.

 

[The Last Stand]

I had a professor that docked a letter grade because my mask slipped for a second.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Her example was that in Ethiopia they’re technically in the year 2012.

It's 2014 in Ethiopia right now. What a dumb bitch.

 

[Lurking no more]

Of course time isn't linear, that's just the lie the academic class uses to enslave you. The truth is that time is cubic.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

At least you didn’t have to take a Gender Identity class like me that one time. I almost failed it, even though I deep down wanted to.