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So, I made the mistake of picking a performing arts degree, so I spend most of my days pondering how pointless of a degree it is. I did manage to pick a module about performance protest, and while some of it gets a bit bullshitty, there's been other parts like looking at native American performance/protest at the Dakota pipeline and stuff, which have been interesting and useful.

Yesterday there was some group work. It was a bit of a brainstorming exercise but as a group we settled on the idea of spamming the illegal immigrant report line/letterbox with shit so that new reports wont go through. Ok, it's nothing amazing, but it served the purpose of the exercise we were given.

Then this girl speaks up. Previously her contribution to class has been telling everyone about how she culturally enriched herself by going on holiday in places where poor people exist.

On our idea, she says that it might be illegal to do, so we should create a fake website and have people fill that in as a symbolic message.

A FAKE WEBSITE FILLED IN AS A SYMBOLIC MESSAGE

At that moment I realised why the arts seem so useless at changing things. It's jam packed with trust fund kiddies.

that is complete insanity. what could possibly drive someone to have that thought at my young age? To remove all potency from the tiniest little act. Seriously ghoulish.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One time my mother yelled at a homeless man for having a phone

One time my burger joint owning cousin fired two high schoolers for speaking Spanish to one another

One time a college classmate gave a presentation about why gay people should be segregated into an internal country within a country because this would somehow sell more consumer goods

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

gay people should be segregated into an internal country within a country because this would somehow sell more consumer goods

:jesse-wtf:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

His reasoning hinged upon some very shaky math and a claim that gay men "buy both female and male products." It was some kind of bonkers idea you could test out how well certain clothes, foods, and cosmetics sell because in his words "gay people do both." So he was coming at it both from an angle that gay people are abominations who should be removed from public, and that gay people are good test subjects for whatever pointless consumer products capitalism makes.

The professor didn't stop the presentation and the other students mostly nodded along

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So concentration camps as focus groups to test out new products?

I mean it would get them a job at the :pete: consultancy company, but wow.

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