Ever Read Such Pretentious Piffle?

I’m not blaming the book or its author, because she didn’t pen this gobble-de-gook!

…the BookTok sensation that melds dark academia with a post-colonial critique

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..melds dark academia with a post-colonial critique…?

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Plain English, please!

Set at Oxford in the 1800s, Rebecca F Kuang’s new novel is a magic-infused allegory for structural oppression – and social media can’t get enough of it

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/08/babel-the-booktok-sensation-that-melds-dark-academia-with-a-post-colonial-critique

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…magic-infused allegory for structural oppression  .?

The dork reviewer in the Guardian urgently needs to go cold turkey –

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…skip ‘social media’ infested with her think-alikes…

-if she wants to break the grip of pretentious verbal diarrhoea.

Oh, and since I came across that…

…a week or more ago, how about THIS…

Academic meritocracy is not academic fairness…

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Traditional metrics neglect the systematic barriers faced by individuals with various oppressed axes of identity, says Shan-Jan Sarah Liu.. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/academic-meritocracy-not-academic-fairness

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/academic-meritocracy-not-academic-fairness