So the press conference jihadist is a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky (really) and this is what she's working on. Dying. Absolutely dying. Beyond parody. @TheBabylonBee couldn't top this if they tried. https://t.co/xMhbmez881 pic.twitter.com/2mI5orclZx
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 30, 2024
Only a language supremacist would criticise such text!
ReplyDeleteLet words be words! Why does everything have to have meaning?
Or something like that.
A Master's in Gibberish.
ReplyDeleteIf I made her up, I couldn't have made her as ridiculous as she is.
How does one even flunk somebody in that "subject"? I can't even tell what the subject is
ReplyDeleteYou flunk by making sense.
DeleteThis is now Godfrey Elfwick and Titania McGrath's world.
ReplyDeleteMalcolm Muggeridge was a prophet, though I doubt very much he'd be pleased to find that out.
I'm a PhD dropout as I've said. 90% of PhDs by women are like this.
ReplyDeleteIt's basically: men hunt and women nest.
Men hunt for new knowledge, actual contributions to progress.
Women find a cozy couch to spread out in. Or alternately they screech hysterically to let out their frustrations about the patriarchy. More than half of college students are now women, so there's a lot of this stuff. Rebecca?
Marx talked about Alienation caused by the transition from farm work to factory work in the Industrial Revolution - You don't get to enjoy the things you make any more, to see plants and animals grow and eat what you produce.
She's taken that simple idea and turned it into a drawing room exercise, a cozy couch for her to talk about herself ultimately, I'll wager.
Oh yes, it's embarrassing I know - I actually understood the gibberish! :-)
PS, and look, here's the guy who mapped out the methodology she's chosen to nest in, including inventing the term 'metabolic rift' (which I'd never heard):
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellamy_Foster
Yes, as usual it's based on the original work of a male of the species.
He seems kind of dangerous. By rights the FBI should be watching him, but instead the WH will probably give him a medal.
My objection to this PhD proposal - in one of the world's top research universities! - is that it has no original substance or focus (even for us who understand what she's saying). It's puerile.
"Marxian"? "Historicist"? She certainly has a way with words.
ReplyDeleteBruce, I haven't been on campus in almost twenty years, so I have no idea what's happening there now, but I do remember my experience with a lot of college women. Let me just say that I often despaired for the future of the human race. Of course, that was true for a lot of college men too. I once had a grad student who was working toward his master's in business ask me what "capital gains" were.
Oh, she does indeed have a body of scholarly work. I ran across this specimen (and no, I did not make it up):
ReplyDelete"How Did Pumpkin Become Beloved? Labor, Nostalgia, Refreshment And White Women"
I have never had a pumpkin spice latte. Or for that matter, pumpkin spice anything except for pie. Just does not appeal to me, but hey, I am not a white chick.