Craig's List

Accuracy in Academia ^ | January 19, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Signalman]

“We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,”

The liberal mind is truly insane. Can anyone with a room temperature IQ or higher possibly fathom what this leftist dribble means?

[willgolfforfood]

I’m not sure, but I think I’ve determined that a small portion of this post is in English.

[houeto]

“We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,”

Looks like 'teach' is telling the students to read "Atlas Shrugged" to me.

[RobRoy]

>>“We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,”<<

First, I would want to know what he means by “antagonist class” and then, which texts? Further, I would ask what he means by “oppositional voices”. Does he simply mean the things the “antagonist class” is saying?

I’ve found that the more time and effort one spends forming a sentence, the more clear and concise it is.

[pogo101]

I think the excerpts from "Radical Teacher" are indistinguishable from output from The Postmodernist Essay Generator.

[RonF]

What course is this man teaching?

[KarlInOhio]

What course is this man teaching?

Does it matter? I expect his yammer would be the same whether he is teaching Death to the Class Opponents of the Glorious Marxist Revolution 414 or Introduction to Chemistry 101.

[from occupied ga]

We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,” Christopher Craig writes in the December 2009 issue of Radical Teacher, “a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching.” “Through this critical process, we can show how the values and interests of the dominant class are not universal but repressive, intended to keep the power relations between the ruling and working class one-sided.”

Maybe it's just me, but what the heck is he trying to say, and has anyone noticed that academics in the liberal arts write like this most of the time. It's like a game to use the most words to say the most incomprehensible drivel.

[lapsus calami]

 

LoL - I always get a chuckle out of these sort of declarations, particularly when they never source how they arrived at such lofty conclusions. Academics I've ran into who write like this are typically trying to bluff and manipulate less sophisticated folk into believing they are in receipt of a gift of knowledge and insight bestowed upon them by one of the more gifted of humanity.

 

 

[DesertRhino]

Just a thought. Marxists always sound like that. Their thoughts are always dense and hard to follow. Just for giggles look at the communist manifesto sometime. Deciet is always complicated.

Contrast that with how the declaration of independence, the constitution, and the writings of the founders are clearly understandable.

[the_Watchman]

“We must encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts in order to demonstrate how the oppositional voices contained in them identify evidence of class struggle,”

My reading: "encourage students to access the antagonist class positions of texts" --

Encourage students to "look for" class antagonism in the texts in order to find evidence of class struggle.

It's like the way scientists who "look for" Anthropogenic Global Warming have an easy time "finding" it. It's bad "science" and it's bad "critical thinking".

[wac3rd]

It is always the same rigged game of Totalitarian, Communistic agendas of equality via initial indoctrination, then systematic government then ultimately, the sword.

[UCANSEE2]

t's like a game to use the most words to say the most incomprehensible drivel.

Sounds like he should be considered by Obama to be the Deputy Comrade Minister Czar of Class Struggle.

[Constitution Day]

Argh! You beat me to it. I thought precisely the same thing.

[DesertRhino]

that is,,, deceit is always complicated.

[MurrietaMadman]

I thought it was incomprehensible dribble because I skipped lunch.

[UCANSEE2]

CLASS STRUGGLE= Students in Craig’s class struggling because they can’t figure out what he’s saying.

[UCANSEE2]

What course is this man teaching?

Marxism for Dummies.

[razorback-bert]

They correctly link the horrific consequences of Hurricane Katrina to the Bush administration’s failure ...

Standard of this type of course.