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Based on the people that I have met in my life I wonder how people with such shitty politics and views on marginalized communities can have so many friends and be so smart in STEM, the intelligetsia? (lemmy.ml)
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Like you might think that abstract intelligence and social intelligence might carry over solidarity instead of making people more shitty in that regard. How does that even work? Why does people like that coast in life while those who they seem lesser than them suffer?

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[–] 20 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

Most cases in my experience is partly because STEM study is divorced from study of Humanities. Wanna know how many STEM students were in my 300s Eng Lit class where we had analysis on Neuromancer and how fucked that all was? ZERO. It was the same people from all my other Humanities courses.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My college required four humanities classes for every degree. Including STEM. Really wish more pushed that.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My college had a special philosophy for Engineering class that counted towards our humanities class that was basically DOD propaganda about how you aren't morally responsible when you make weapons that end up committing war crimes

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I think it's largely the result of the consensus view in STEM becoming "the humanities are worthless"

    Of course then the diphsits, having refused to learn any history, have no clue that it wasn't always this way and many (most?) of the great STEM figures of the past were polymaths with good foundations in the humanities.

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