There’s a right-wing obsession with Che Guevara which is disproportionate to his actual importance as a revolutionary and theorist within the international communist movement, and I’m pretty sure it all does just come down to the fact that his face is on a t-shirt which was trendy twenty years ago.
I’m sure there are a number of folks in the notes arguing against this, and I just wanna point out that they just wanna be racist without being called racist.
Possibly unpopular opinion? There’s a thin line between anti-elitism-in-academia and anti-intellectualism, and tumblr really walks it sometimes.
Anti-elitism:
Criticizing class barriers to getting into academia
Criticizing lack of resources to help students with physical or mental health issues
Calling out racism and sexism in academia
Calling out people who treat others badly for being less educated
Calling out people who believe academia is the only way to gain knowledge
Anti-intellectualism:
Being opposed to academia as an institution
Acting like everyone in academia is a rich and privileged white man
Acting like their opinions shouldn’t matter because of this
Assuming that any specialised language exists only to make things difficultfora layperson to understand and couldn’t possibly be necessary in order to explain a complicated topic
Assuming that if a specialist can’t explain what they’re doing to a non-specialist in five minutes then what they do is nonsense
Shaming people for taking pride in their academic and intellectual achievements
Am I crazy for thinking that tumblr sometimes veers towards the second?
honestly i might as well delete tumblr. I don’t use it much and most leftists circles unfortunately favor statehood for puerto rico which is truly the most lukewarm take you could have to resolve a colonial situation. It’s like saying an abuse survivor should marry their abuser. Makes me wanna vomit tbh
