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So, my university doesn't have a student centre yet since it's pretty new, and the idea of creating one has been around for some time although there aren't people up for it. But let's say it's done, the way it would be done would be pretty similar to that of a liberal bourgeois democracy, where you choose between Guatemala (Guatebad) and Guatepeor (Guateworse) (Spanish joke). How do you think this could work in a way that members of such centre could be replaced or rotated according to students' needs? Is it even worth doing it this way in an organisation where maybe every 5-6 years they would be replaced anyway?

I don’t plan on giving another reply after this one. I just want to debunk them, and say they are dogmatic and unMarxist, as to not look like their arguments were too good, so that I could not defend myself on my own post.

Cambridge University is teaching students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group, in an effort to “dismantle the… myths” of English nationalism, the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Liberal academics have long decried the term for its association with “whiteness.”

Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC) will seek “to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,” the British newspaper reported, citing information from the university.

By denigrating the idea of a distinct Anglo-Saxon identity, the university said that it aims to make its teaching more “anti-racist.”

The controversy over the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ began in 2019, when Canadian academic Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm resigned from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists over the “inherent whiteness” of the field. Rambaran-Olm, who is not white, went on to write that “the Anglo-Saxon myth perpetuates a false idea of what it means to be ‘native’ to Britain,” and that the term is “historically inaccurate.”

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This is such IdPol but it's funny

Makes me wonder if one of my posts got noticed in that hellhole. I HAVE TO BE THERE SOMEWHERE.

And the copium still felt very strong years after it was discovered 👌