{"id":47705,"date":"2019-05-07T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47705"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:43:24","slug":"qotd-competitive-wokeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/qotd-competitive-wokeness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Competitive Wokeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I love competitive #Wokeness.<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously \u2014 it\u2019s high time you people out in the real world got to experience one of the defining joys of life in the ivory tower. In the ivy-covered halls of academe, the Marxist Postcolonialist Feminsts have longstanding beef with the Postcolonialist Feminist Marxists. They\u2019d each happily feed the other into a wood chipper, even though to outsiders it would look like the pot executing the kettle for counterrevolutionary crimes. If you\u2019re the sort who takes schadenfreudy delight in very obvious folly, university life is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even funnier if you take these buffoons at their word. Compared to the pronouncements of your average Angry Studies professor, Pol Pot was a sane and balanced man. In reality, of course, university people are so soft and coddled, they make the Eloi look like the Sons of Anarchy. Spending so much time around college folk is one of the main reasons for my mantra: \u201cToday\u2019s SJW is tomorrow\u2019s <em>obergruppenfuhrer<\/em>.\u201d They talk a fearsome game, these campus Ches, but they cry if the cafeteria is out of free trade sustainably sourced indigenous grown gluten free soy milk. When the zeitgeist shifts, they\u2019ll be the first to knuckle under.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-reluctant-revolutionary\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Reluctant Revolutionary&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2019-04-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love competitive #Wokeness. No, seriously \u2014 it\u2019s high time you people out in the real world got to experience one of the defining joys of life in the ivory tower. In the ivy-covered halls of academe, the Marxist Postcolonialist Feminsts have longstanding beef with the Postcolonialist Feminist Marxists. They\u2019d each happily feed the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,53,41],"tags":[1020,1462,764],"class_list":["post-47705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-progressives","tag-severian","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cpr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47706,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705\/revisions\/47706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}