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salty-software-engineer · 6 months ago

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Man I just finished Babel and I was excited to read discussions online because there's so much going on in it with so many little things and just....angry white people. Everywhere. Truly a dead dove moment.

#the “you can't trust white people” theme might be a little like...aggressive but gosh you are not wrong #rf kuang #it was such a good depiction imo #it felt so much like explaining to white (or sometimes black) people what the problem is #especially felt like explaining being queer to straight people #i feel like a lot of people have at least a vague intellectual understanding of racism even if they don't see the racism #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #also she captured a fair bit of mixed race and chinese diaspora feelings #also also i can see the relationship to the secret history and the fact that this is a rebuttal of dark academia while being dark academia #also realizing i dislike dark academia tbh #just...the ye olde university feeling is not my style #hence i went to engineering school where it had a je ne sais quois that i think is widespread neurodivergence #the good old boys clubs just do not interest me and i cannot really care about their lifestyles #it's not bad mind you it's just not for me #babel however is the exception that made me realize i dislike dark academia #hated the cloisters #got a rec for the secret history and had negative interest in that #i really want more and better depictions of engineering school and like...any similar experiences to what i had #they just do things like the social network where it's still a rich kid good old boys club but now with “nerds” who are just business majors #like the big tech guys of the modern era are primarily business guys not like...building computers in their basement #give me aome barely functional people who lean heavily into being weird once they go to school and they have hijinks like #updating archlinux and giving the other people shots if you get xyz system working again #first to get x11 back? REST OF YOU SHOTS. first to get internet back? SHOTS. sound? SHOTS. window manager? SHOTS.#or like...drama over your roommate not knowing how to do basic adult things like boil water or do laundry

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