the “humanities” also involve logic and Being Rational and Objective
@alexanderwept says-
how should we categorize classes that teach things like “science is colonialism”?
well, how should we categorize classes that teach things like “if your experiment doesn’t show the result you wanted, delete some of your data until it does”?
I’d categorize any class that teaches motivated reasoning as something that we don’t need to subsidize with public money. The difference is that I’ve never sat through a STEM class that advocated for it, but every grievance study class I’ve attended has viewed objectivity and critical engagement as hostile and oppressive.
In fact, every single class I’ve taken that’s prioritized empathy above rationality and objectivity has been a humanities class.
So uh. I don’t want to be That Guy, but considering that you’re writing off a couple of different academic disciplines as ‘grievance studies’, is it possible that that your professors might have picked up on the hostility you’re clearly displaying towards the thing they’ve spent their life working on?
Sure, but I’ll pose the same question. If queers/colored people/born victims are cheaper to hire and just as competent as their straight/white/born winners, why do profit-motivated corporations hire the born winners over the equally competent but less expensive born losers?
Japanese Americans went from internment camps to having more wealth than white people in the last century, why are blacks still lagging behind everyone else?
Why do refugees prefer white protestant countries?
Not cheaper to hire. Generally would be as cheap to hire, considered statistically. But not all else held equal because culture. Because of people like you, mainly, actually.
Japanese-Americans have done better in part because of continued cultural ties to a whole other nation and whole other economy, influx of new, post-wwII era, generally richer immigrants, and living mostly on the West Coast and big cities instead of the South. Judging from the Japanese-American communities where I am, incidentally the site of one of those camps, the families that were interned generally aren’t the richest in the community.
Refugees don’t; most go to their neighboring countries, which have their own entirely different political situations and enough of the neighboring countries’ conservatives react like you do and get them to go elsewhere. Some come to the west because they actually believe in western values and want to live by them. Many come because they hear we earn more for the same work and chance everything, usually for a big motivator like their families. But the west is mostly atheist-agnostic and if you really look at it culturally roman catholic ignostic, like what you think of when you think of Oktoberfest. Even those that aren’t aren’t reformed or puritans like the US, but generally either Lutherans or Catholics-but-divorce-is-ok-and-priests-may-fuck-hail-britannia.
Something tells me you don’t give a shit, though.
