No no no, i wasn't dissing literature itself. I adore literature and think it can be incredibly powerful and i certainly think it's important. My complaint is with the institutionalized study of literature. I feel like way too much of what i do is coming up with obscure theories to apply to literature. Instead of just saying "This story is a powerful representation of one woman's experience at the turn of the 20th century" i have to talk about women as property and examine the structure of sentences and it feels like too often it becomes an exercise in b.s.ing.
When do we have the right to say that a religion or any cultural belief is wrong and needs to be discontinued? Is that any different than saying a culture’s political institutions are wrong? Are there a set of universal human rights? Or are there conflicting sets? But to answer the question, appeasement is giving into a form of blackmail; co-existence is respecting the right of self-determination even if we disagree with it.
So you're basically saying that human rights organizations shouldn't exist then. Also, i still have difficulty with the invokation of "self-determination" in this context, because it seems to me that the only people in Cuba who have the right to "self-determination" are Castro and the people he likes.
As for transgender issues. It's not as though we changed the constitution to contain obscure trendy pronouns like "zie" and "zir." We merely changed all female pronouns to "student." We are all students, but some of us don't identify as female.
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When do we have the right to say that a religion or any cultural belief is wrong and needs to be discontinued? Is that any different than saying a culture’s political institutions are wrong? Are there a set of universal human rights? Or are there conflicting sets? But to answer the question, appeasement is giving into a form of blackmail; co-existence is respecting the right of self-determination even if we disagree with it.
So you're basically saying that human rights organizations shouldn't exist then. Also, i still have difficulty with the invokation of "self-determination" in this context, because it seems to me that the only people in Cuba who have the right to "self-determination" are Castro and the people he likes.
As for transgender issues. It's not as though we changed the constitution to contain obscure trendy pronouns like "zie" and "zir." We merely changed all female pronouns to "student." We are all students, but some of us don't identify as female.