We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605

Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as “rad” and “totally awesome as fuck” – that’s truly sick.

And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. a-little-trolling

  • MarxusMaximus [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    I feel like it’s important here to note that Swedish State Media has used Magnus Fiskesjö as an “expert” to comment on news stories about China on numerous occasions.

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    I teach Anthropology&Asian studies @Cornell ; fmr Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy Beijing. Views my own

    lol fking asian studies professor too lol

    This is the level that western academia is on lol

  • AutomatedPossum [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    How can you be an anthropology and Asian studies professor, see these frilly edges and the ornamentation and the fact that it is made from fucking jade and think “yeah, the ancestors of the evil Chinese CeeCeePee absolutely used these to behead people”?

    • iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      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.

      back-to-me