alt Hacker News> The humanities are what tells you whether to build a bomb or a bridge etc.
That's just the justification they give for their existence. You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance' or some nonsense like that.
The only reason humanities departments are this big today is because of the biological waste who can't make it to STEM or any other useful profession. If we limit humanities to classicists, linguists etc... whose work is actually rigorous and not just peddling political nonsense, humanities would not have such a bad rap.
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> You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance' or some nonsense like that.
I like how this criticism can never point to anything real, people just make something up and then assign an implausibly large budget to it and then say everyone is doing that.
> You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance'
I like how we just make up fake arguments in incoherent grammar as a reason to criticize the humanities. There'd be irony there if people still were taught what that meant.
> just peddling political nonsense
Is this because the word liberal is in the name? Because that's not what that word means in this context.