#pro intellectualism

[momonica05]

What people don't get about anti-intelectualism: it's not about booktok

I always feel so angry at this whole booktok anti-intelectualism discussion because people are now "pro intelectualism" without knowing what it really means outside the internet or the US (oh, the irony)

It's not about booktok. Anti-intelectualism is when you go against the european/US standards of what is intellect. It's looking outside of hollywood, of Broadway, of reading and recognizing the literature (CLASSIC OR NOT!!) of your country instead of undermining it just because it's not from Europe or United States

It is a form of art against the christian eurocentric "american" way of what art and knowledge is! I could go on and on about how intellectualism as you know fucking sucks because it's basically saying that the only source of intellect that matters is X or Y (AND ITS ALWAYS ENGLISH), or how at least the kids on booktok are actually READING and that alone is good because of the incentive to read, even if crap books, is valid. We need to remember these books are WAY more accessible than your usual classics, so one kid reading Twilight can grow a passion for reading, which my generation seriously lacks. Which brings me to another thing: language. Anti-intelectualism is also the use of non-formal or popular language too, because it wants to reach the people!

I'm tired and my english is frying my head so I'll end it here with a little message: just because someone reads bad smut Kylo Ren fanfiction, doesn't mean she will never read Pride and Prejudice. If she finds the language boring well guess what its because it fucking is.

[greencheekconure27]

hey what's your beef with peta? if it's that they operate "kill shelters" you might want to read the newsweek fact check https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532 (tldr: "Just as a hospice has a high mortality rate, so does a shelter that takes in those near end-of-life, feral, aggressive, dying and discarded animals." "Cherry-picking animals to only allow in the most adoptable at shelters with limited admission (otherwise known as 'no-kill') policies doesn't help and often leads to people dumping animals, or neglecting them in other ways,")

Oh no it's so much more than that.Constant spreading of pseudoscience and misinformation, ableist campaigns (such as "drinking milk causes autism", racist and antisemitic campaigns (comparing pig farming to the Holocaust for instance), sexist campaigns under the guise of feminism (veganism is feminist because cows have a womb they are women too) more misinformation and pseudoscience, financial scams, at least one instance of abducting someone's beloved and cared for pet to euthanize it, harassment, using emotional manipulation on children ("your mommy is a murderer because she eats meat" etc), harassing and breaking into zoos and research labs , frequently killing the wild animals they rescue, that one bullshit monkey photograph lawsuit, being against ALL animal agriculture and hunting EVERYWHERE, being opposed to pets (yes cats and dogs too), actually paying people to abuse farm animals for staged videos, cultish behavior,absolutely insane ideas, and oh, misinformation and pseudoscience.

As to kill shelters, it's the lies and the hypocrisy that bothers me, because these are the same fucking people who will insist they're doing good by keeping animals alive when they have no quality of life to speak of anymore. One moment they're gushing over some poor piglet born without trotters or blind legless bird being kept alive and miserable for months, the next they're all pro euthanizing healthy animals en masse, all while they collect donations for both.

I know a lot of people donate to them in good faith but don't. Even if you are vegan. They're not doing anything good with that money.

[starsandreams]

seeing elriels get upset over an english literature major using their degree to analyze the bonus chapter and saying sjm books are easy to understand while shipping elriel will never not be funny to me. tell me you’re insecure about your ship without telling me you’re insecure about your ship

[fairuzfan]

When's the anti-pro-Palestinian movement going to admit they have an islamophobia/anti-Arab/anti-palestinian problem

[kataraavatara]

people who hate nesta are the same people who think theon deserved ramsay send tweet!!

[slitheringghost]

A take I personally dislike is that it’s overpowering Lily to make her smart like Hermione - AKA to make her top of the class and good at everything.

I think this is rooted in sexism. It’s like, we can’t have two whole female characters who are geniuses, there can only be one (and both of them literally from different decades!)

How many male characters are there that are unquestioningly accepted as “top of the class, brilliant at everything geniuses”? Voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald; and Snape, James, and Sirius are also often categorized similarly.

(Obviously none of them are actually brilliant at everything, they all have fields that they’re stronger and weaker in, etc.)

This is an even worse take since they’re both specifically Muggleborn women and their ability to live out their full intellectual potential was highly affected by the fascist violence they were subject to throughout their school years and beyond (well maybe Lily lived that out by defeating Voldemort…)

Hermione and Lily, while very different personality wise, were both geniuses, both creative, both top of their class brilliant students.

In fact their magic is somewhat similar, which you can read more about in my meta Hermione As Teacher And Connections To Lily - and especially apparent as I point out in the meta is that both don’t get credit for their work and are overshadowed by men because of a highly sexist and blood purist society.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Lol sucks for you. Can't relate!

[colorlesschristmastree]

I’m a bit peeved I have to say this and I’m frankly exhausted of the fact that people need to be reminded of this fact.

Feyre suffered just as much if not more than everyone in this series including Tamlin’s pathetic disgusting ass.

He’s not the one whose blood got boiled in his veins by Amarantha, he’s not the one who was mocked and humiliated by her in public over and over again, he’s not the one who was given impossible tasks that would either result in his death or being horrifically beaten, he’s not the one who was locked under the mountain for 50 years, unlike the rest of the HLs who had to stay there and suffer he was living fairly comfortably during those 50 years, he just had the anxiety looming over his head of impending doom and while that’s traumatic it’s not the same as experiencing it.

Why does he need to be given the benefit of the doubt? Why is he deserving of sympathy or grace from the fandom? “His trauma made him do this”, “When he lost control of his magic and it attacked Feyre it was him having a panic attack”, “Everything he did came from a good place”. Okay? Why should I give a fuck? Do you know how many real men have sob stories like Tamlin and take it out on the women in their lives? Would you tell those women or the people who support them that they need to give that person the benefit or the doubt or try to understand where he was coming from? There really aren’t any valid Tamlin defense arguments and his stans are quite vile.

Anyways stan Feyre and Tamlin death arc

[hussyknee]

Idk how people go into social science research knowing that you're anyway going to spend your entire life arguing with wilfully ignorant fuckwits over stuff like "keeping one-tenth of the world's GDP locked up in a handful of people's accounts is bad for a functional economy'', "you shouldn't have to pay money to stay alive", "letting people mind their own business won't hurt you", "knowledge is good actually", "people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies", "children are people too", "germs are real", "spreading disease is bad for society", "genocide is bad actually", "letting the government kill people puts everyone in danger because everyone is people", "access to long-distance murder weapons increases the chances of getting murdered", "you can't give a clump of cells the same rights as a human being" ad fucking nauseaum until you die.

[clover-system]

[vavuska]

Is it a surprise? Mobile Games infringe every kind of law protecting costumers' rights and intellectual property on daily basis...

During my own spare time on social media I caught several mobile games that appropriates Ts4 speedbuild content, pretending it's their actual gameplay. I tried to make that shit turned down, but Google/Meta didn't get it 🙄

Stealing and scamming is typical of tech bros.

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[nando161mando]

I love living in a police state where the intellectual institutions act like this. It's awesome.

[arcanobabble]

DRM is so funny to me. I didn't take anything tangible from you but I'm not allowed to arrange the atoms of a hard drive in a specific way. I can't recreate a form of matter with my own property because, hypothetically, I could have given you money and theoretically not giving someone a profit is a cardinal sin I guess.

[nice-try-antis]

coin... thinking... should coin... intelligenceflux! can be for singlets and systems too! - smol/ophelia

[lord-squiggletits]

Between TF and my other fandoms like BG3 and TES, I keep finding myself making OCs that have some element of "battle hardened hero who is actually good and righteous, but so traumatized by the toll of war that even after the war ends they feel empty/wrecked and can't enjoy the fruits of victory" and I'm not sure if it's bc I gravitate to a certain type of media where such OCs fit in best, or bc I have a specific character archetype I like and gravitate towards media that contains those things.

[sophieinwonderland]

Really tired of the "just rewrite every single guide but replace the word tulpa with something else" argument.

Putting aside just the massive undertaking that would be... it's illegal!

Every guide is someone's intellectual property, even if they're providing it online for free as a service to the community.

You can't just copy someone else's novel-length manuscripts verbatim, only changing out a single word.

It gets really hard to believe sysmeds' proposed "solutions" are at all in good faith when they're literally telling us to violate copyright law.