I'm glad leftist YouTube is finally getting traction as a broader movement, rather than just a fan club for Natalie (Contrapoints). I find the distinction between Breadtube and Lefttube to be...
I'm glad leftist YouTube is finally getting traction as a broader movement, rather than just a fan club for Natalie (Contrapoints).
I find the distinction between Breadtube and Lefttube to be interesting as well. It makes sense to divide it along those lines, since 'Breadtube' is an allusion to communist literature - and most of these content creators aren't communists.
Also really interested to see where it goes. I think they're at a crossroads here, especially as 2020 ramps up with tons of election stuff happening. Natalie in the past has demonstrated cynicism for leftist spaces, as they tend to tear themselves apart with purity testing, etc.
I, for one, think that these content creators are amazing, and do a great job of supplementing humanities education in a context that of an education system that doesn't place proper value on anything but STEM.
What, you're telling me a healthy global society needs people to understand things BESIDES stem topics? Get outta here with that illogical nonsense. /s US education irritates the shit out of me.
that doesn't place proper value on anything but STEM
What, you're telling me a healthy global society needs people to understand things BESIDES stem topics? Get outta here with that illogical nonsense. /s
Oh, it's not just there. The Netherlands and Germany have a long tradition of subject-specific higher education. Traditionally, there are no general Bachelor/liberal arts programs, at ~18 after...
US education irritates the shit out of me.
Oh, it's not just there.
The Netherlands and Germany have a long tradition of subject-specific higher education. Traditionally, there are no general Bachelor/liberal arts programs, at ~18 after high school you choose to pretty much just study the one single subject (psychology, economics, law, math, physics, architecture, etc.) with perhaps a few fun electives thrown in.
At the moment, in the Netherlands, the government is proposing (and likely to win) transferring quite a bit of mony from humanities funding to stem subjects/universities of technology. My own Delft University of Technology and the other U's of Tech actually lobbied for this, wich makes me somewhat ashamed to teach there, at the moment.
I'm glad leftist YouTube is finally getting traction as a broader movement, rather than just a fan club for Natalie (Contrapoints).
I find the distinction between Breadtube and Lefttube to be interesting as well. It makes sense to divide it along those lines, since 'Breadtube' is an allusion to communist literature - and most of these content creators aren't communists.
Also really interested to see where it goes. I think they're at a crossroads here, especially as 2020 ramps up with tons of election stuff happening. Natalie in the past has demonstrated cynicism for leftist spaces, as they tend to tear themselves apart with purity testing, etc.
I, for one, think that these content creators are amazing, and do a great job of supplementing humanities education in a context that of an education system that doesn't place proper value on anything but STEM.
What, you're telling me a healthy global society needs people to understand things BESIDES stem topics? Get outta here with that illogical nonsense. /s
US education irritates the shit out of me.
Oh, it's not just there.
The Netherlands and Germany have a long tradition of subject-specific higher education. Traditionally, there are no general Bachelor/liberal arts programs, at ~18 after high school you choose to pretty much just study the one single subject (psychology, economics, law, math, physics, architecture, etc.) with perhaps a few fun electives thrown in.
At the moment, in the Netherlands, the government is proposing (and likely to win) transferring quite a bit of mony from humanities funding to stem subjects/universities of technology. My own Delft University of Technology and the other U's of Tech actually lobbied for this, wich makes me somewhat ashamed to teach there, at the moment.
edit: typo
I weep for our world's future generations and their ability to relate to one another emotionally.