Courses that are a waste of time and tuition

Colleges & Universities Indiana University - Bloomington
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<p>You wrote that in an email to the English Department? Nothing you’ve written indicates you’re a Kelley student, but I certainly hope you’re not.</p>

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<p>Glad to know you’re not just crazy, but also a bit of a stalker. You’re also not that great of a writer, just for your information.</p>

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<p>Artberndt,
You first posted about this assignment on September 5th. Today is September 26th and you’re still posting comments about it. </p>

<p>That’s a long time to be carrying around so much anger. If you’re required to take the class and are unable to drop it, then maybe it would help you to talk to someone in the counseling center.</p>

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<p>After all the rationalizations from posters, I take it all back. Completing this course somewhat successfully will allow me, god-willing, to write something like the slop below (copied from amazon.com reviews of Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation). </p>

<p>“This ground-breaking book offers its fortunate readers a unique and crucial set of lenses into the worlds of ecological activism, disability rights, and anti-imperialist struggles. Importantly, these lenses are not limited to the visual field. The contributors and editors assert effectively that these worlds are not actually disparate in the first place, and that any attempts to separate them from each other results in the risk of grave danger, if not peril. The volume goes well beyond sharing helpful conversations about interdependence and intersectionality with regard to fighting oppression and striving for social justice; it demonstrates that advocacy for the survival of our planet and all of ‘its’ species is a mutually imbricating series of committed efforts—and labors of love. The continuance of vitality and diversity requires an understanding of this book’s numerous, life-affirming linkages.” </p>

<p>Or, even better (worse), “This provocative and groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to propose the concept of Eco-ability: the intersectionality of the ecological world, persons with disabilities, and nonhuman animals. Rooted in disability studies and rights, environmentalism, and animal advocacy, this book calls for a social justice theory and movement that dismantles constructed “normalcy,” ableism, speciesism, and ecological destruction while promoting mutual interdependence, collaboration, respect for difference, and inclusivity of our world. Eco-ability provides a positive, liberating, and empowering philosophy for educators and activists alike.”</p>

<p>If the above comments were written in jest to trap academics into nodding their heads, I applaud the writers. One can hope. What extreme of self-importance, delusion, arrogance, superfluity, and self-seriousnessism(!) permit someone to write the above without collapsing in paroxysms of laughter while soiling oneself? </p>

<p>What a sinkhole American higher education has become! I intend to use ableism, speciesism, and intersectionality along with #$@&*, *%^$#, and !#@$%&%, in my academic scribblings. I anticipate A’s.</p>

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<p>"What extreme of self-importance, delusion, arrogance, superfluity, and self-seriousnessism(!) permit someone to write the above without collapsing in paroxysms of laughter while soiling oneself? "</p>

<p>^not to be mean, but to me this describes your own writing style.</p>