WI: Quebec's Quiet Revolution causes widespread conversions to Islam?

I happen to be a leftist and the people I'm talking about are so "out there" they can't even be placed on a left-center-right political spectrum.

Yeah, but they sound more annoying and weird than dangerous. So, I'd go ignore, move on.

I prefer this to the rightwing versions.
 

Meerkat92

Banned
Yeah, but they sound more annoying and weird than dangerous. So, I'd go ignore, move on.

I prefer this to the rightwing versions.

I'd rather be around rabid right-wingers. Even if they are despicable bigots, at least they're honest and up-front about the people and groups they hate. None of this "privilege-checking" nonsense to provide a smokescreen for their hate.
 

Flubber

Banned
Yeah, but they sound more annoying and weird than dangerous.


They are annoying and weird. They're also university instructors, either professors or teaching assistants. I've mixed feelings about that.

So, I'd go ignore, move on.

I don't engage or acknowledge them. It's just sad to hear their rhetoric parroted by some undergrad who took a Fill-In-The-Blank Studies course only to meet their general education requirement and had to drink the Kool-aid to get a passing grade.
 
I'd rather be around rabid right-wingers. Even if they are despicable bigots, at least they're honest and up-front about the people and groups they hate. None of this "privilege-checking" nonsense to provide a smokescreen for their hate.

I've never met a leftist in real life who isn't vocal about the groups they hate actually. Walmart, bankers, Israel and weapons companies seem to be on the top of the list.

We have an Israeli apartheid week here every year like clock work.
 

Meerkat92

Banned
I've never met a leftist in real life who isn't vocal about the groups they hate actually. Walmart, bankers, Israel and weapons companies seem to be on the top of the list.

We have an Israeli apartheid week here every year like clock work.

Actually, I think the last Israel thread was like a month ago. But still, point taken.
 

RousseauX

Donor
I don't engage or acknowledge them. It's just sad to hear their rhetoric parroted by some undergrad who took a Fill-In-The-Blank Studies course only to meet their general education requirement and had to drink the Kool-aid to get a passing grade.
:confused:
 

RousseauX

Donor
Believe me, it is. :(

I live outside a major US state university and every undergrad taking a number of Fill-In-The-Blank-Studies sociology courses spouts it both repetitively and unconsciously. If it's African-America Studies, it's check your white privilege. If it's GLBT Studies, it's check your hetero-normative privilege. If it's Women Studies, it's check your patriarchal privileges. The list is endless.

There are some seriously fucked up people "teaching" in universities these days and they all live inside the same echo chamber.
I am currently in University and have never heard of this from anybody.
 
Believe me, it is. :(

I live outside a major US state university and every undergrad taking a number of Fill-In-The-Blank-Studies sociology courses spouts it both repetitively and unconsciously. If it's African-America Studies, it's check your white privilege. If it's GLBT Studies, it's check your hetero-normative privilege. If it's Women Studies, it's check your patriarchal privileges. The list is endless.

There are some seriously fucked up people "teaching" in universities these days and they all live inside the same echo chamber.

...I just finished what must be the most liberal artsy first year program in existence and go to a school leftist enough that we have as many outright communists in elected positions as tories in the student body, and I've never run into anyone like that.

You do realize, don't you, Quebec is one of the most Catholic places in North America?:confused::confused:

I think the point is that well quite a large fraction of them say they're Catholic, very few actually give a shit about what the church says/
 
It's still pretty ASBish to imagine the people of Quebec embracing Islam during an ATL Quiet Revolution.

Oh god no, but that's largely for the same reason that spontaneous mass conversion to a foreign religion apropos of nothing in a country that is not influenced in any way by followers of that religion is ASB in general. The same would be true regardless of any alt-Quebec in a similar situation regardless of its religion.
 
...I just finished what must be the most liberal artsy first year program in existence and go to a school leftist enough that we have as many outright communists in elected positions as tories in the student body, and I've never run into anyone like that.

Count yourself lucky. My Political Science major required a Women's Studies course, and I'd describe it as something quite similar, although the professor was much more reasonable than the TA.
 
I happen to be a leftist and the people I'm talking about are so "out there" they can't even be placed on a left-center-right political spectrum.

They also don't have the decency to be proper far leftists. Like all my Trotskyist friends.
 
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