We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605

Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as “rad” and “totally awesome as fuck” – that’s truly sick.

And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. a-little-trolling

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    I teach Anthropology&Asian studies @Cornell ; fmr Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy Beijing. Views my own

    lol fking asian studies professor too lol

    This is the level that western academia is on lol

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          My East Asian studies prof was the WASPiest mfer on the planet, but even though he was a lib he was very cool: fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean (like actually fluent, as in he published academic papers in all three languages), and really emphasized how China had strong laws to protect minority ethnic groups (e.g. exemptions from the one-child policy, explicit affirmative action, proportional representation, and language preservation efforts).

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      “When western academia sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing orientalism. They’re bringing imperialism. They’re colonisers. And some, I assume, are good people.”

      I’m trying to imagine a professor who’s “approachable and easygoing” and yet frequently goes off on tangents about the devious chinese brainpan. How rabid of a racist do you need to be before Ivy League students start to dislike you on a personal level?

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      Surprised those are still up. I had a comment removed for the most bland statement saying a prof was racist. Was very funny that a year later his ass was kicked out (temporarily because fuck America) for making the dumbest comments possible during 2020.

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    How can you be an anthropology and Asian studies professor, see these frilly edges and the ornamentation and the fact that it is made from fucking jade and think “yeah, the ancestors of the evil Chinese CeeCeePee absolutely used these to behead people”?

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      Tapping the sign again…

      The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.

      back-to-me

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      How can anyone look at any ornamental weapon and assume it’s used for anything other than looking nice? The only ceremonial weapons that I know about that were used as killing implements were sometimes frou-frou fancy boys would have elaborately engraved flintlock pistols.

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      it’s actually oxidized bronze, not that that supports a beheading usecase, it’d still suck for that.

      looking up the viability of jade weaponry was kind of interesting though, they’ve found some axes & knifes, it’s supposed to be a very hard rock—so you probably could make an execution tool out of it.

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      why bother working or caring about intellectual honesty when you can just parrot the latest state department line and fail upwards? Nation of grifters and thieves

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      If you’re an anthropologist and you want to get a job that pays out of college your options are becoming a mercenary for empire or bank robbery. There’s a lot of scum in the profession.

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      Fuck being a professor, how can you have even the most superficial idea of how an axe works and think this thing was actually used to chop things?

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      That game is actually good for a western because it acknowledges that westward expansion is genocidal. And it shows that escalating brutality is directly correlated with escalating presence of Pinkertons and cops.

      It’s still a mass murder simulator though. Like spray painting “this is critical satire” on the side of my killdozer

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    • People fetishizing kids with assault rifles on hands - woa that’s great because we are protecting ourselves.

    • Haha the axe got a smiling face - horrifying face of a culture built on violence.

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      If China shows pre-communist, feudal history, then it’s propaganda to make the party look good. But if they don’t show pre-communist history, then they’re authoritarians trying to erase the past

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    Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as “rad” and “totally awesome as fuck”

    Those seaside villages were Br*tish though? Critical support???

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      It’s wild seeing stuff that was actually made by skilled craftspeople and realize “aw man we actually don’t even get better shit now we just get more expensive shit that’s 1/10th of the quality”

      Enshitificiation has been going on for a while.

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    I feel like it’s important here to note that Swedish State Media has used Magnus Fiskesjö as an “expert” to comment on news stories about China on numerous occasions.