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Teaching is functional. Performative adherence to other people's politics is less so.

... for some definitions of functional... was it really so useful for one prof I had to read the pages from the book to us and not take questions? He did nothing else.

Sure but you're mixing apples and oranges here.

Can we think about how funny it would be if someone was doing social justice rhetoric with that level of energy?

"well, uhh, you see this is, uhh, problematic i guess, they weren't being an ally. cough. you see, there are a lot of, uh, intersectional and marginalized angles here, it's really complicated. lots of microaggressions. anyways, do the odd questions on page 38, see you wednesday."

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