The existence of 2000 year old ceremonial jade axeheads are undeniable proof of the Uyghur genocide, actually.

Of course this racist behold the masterrace look-alike mofo is an asian studies prof.

"When western academia sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing orientalism. They’re bringing imperialism. They’re colonisers. And some, I assume, are good people."

I'm trying to imagine a professor who's "approachable and easygoing" and yet frequently goes off on tangents about the devious chinese brainpan. How rabid of a racist do you need to be before Ivy League students start to dislike you on a personal level?

Radio free asia studies professor more like.

Surprised those are still up. I had a comment removed for the most bland statement saying a prof was racist. Was very funny that a year later his ass was kicked out (temporarily because fuck America) for making the dumbest comments possible during 2020.

Tapping the sign again...

The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.

it's actually oxidized bronze, not that that supports a beheading usecase, it'd still suck for that.

looking up the viability of jade weaponry was kind of interesting though, they've found some axes & knifes, it's supposed to be a very hard rock---so you probably could make an execution tool out of it.

Beheading the locals with a butter knife

How can anyone look at any ornamental weapon and assume it's used for anything other than looking nice? The only ceremonial weapons that I know about that were used as killing implements were sometimes frou-frou fancy boys would have elaborately engraved flintlock pistols.

why bother working or caring about intellectual honesty when you can just parrot the latest state department line and fail upwards? Nation of grifters and thieves

If you're an anthropologist and you want to get a job that pays out of college your options are becoming a mercenary for empire or bank robbery. There's a lot of scum in the profession.

Because it has probably been literal decades since they did any actual research outside of stewing themselves in newspaper articles.

Fuck being a professor, how can you have even the most superficial idea of how an axe works and think this thing was actually used to chop things?

anthropology and Asian studies professor

You mean professional blood libeler.

Technically works as a de facto calipers emoji

That game is actually good for a western because it acknowledges that westward expansion is genocidal. And it shows that escalating brutality is directly correlated with escalating presence of Pinkertons and cops.

It's still a mass murder simulator though. Like spray painting "this is critical satire" on the side of my killdozer

If China shows pre-communist, feudal history, then it's propaganda to make the party look good. But if they don't show pre-communist history, then they're authoritarians trying to erase the past

uhm actually they weren't british and the concept of a greater british identity wouldn't exist in the era of viking raids across europe

It's wild seeing stuff that was actually made by skilled craftspeople and realize "aw man we actually don't even get better shit now we just get more expensive shit that's 1/10th of the quality"

Enshitificiation has been going on for a while.