70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies

By what Simpsonesque standard do you measure the adequacy of a language, Rich?

...by being able to say what I need to say and never being asked "What did you say?"

I once tried to talk about Plato and was asked "Who the fvck is Plato?"

Undoubtedly your interlocutor was a victim of the US public school system in Middle America.
Then again, the American history knowledge of urban highschoolers in New York is frightening!

Why? All they need to know is:

1. How iPhone works
2. Whites are evil
3. Men are toxic
4. Trans women are women
5. Men can get pregnant

...and off you go to Harvard...

Doesn't say much about Harvard.
Anyhow, "higher ed."s been a running joke for the last forty years since the advent of Reagan.
Listen for example to an old interview from 1960 with the great director John Huston,
having, if he was lucky, a solid grammar school education vs. the last interview with college educated Dennis Hopper
from the mid-'90's.

The latter's enough to make you puke!

Today, unless a guy wants to be a lawyer, going to a trade school to be a welder or plumber is a sure winner when the other choice is gender studies at Harvard - an indoctrination in wokism the Soviet Union would be too embarrassed to conduct at the re-education camps in Siberia.

To the best of my knowledge, as evil as they were, communists never said that a man can become a woman by just saying "I am a woman". It is possible, however, in the US - according to many medical and sports associations.

Harvard (and Yale) have never primarily been about education or scholarship. Their primary purpose is elite networking. That's why ambitious people want to get their not-so-brilliant kids in.

There was a great scene in the second season of the Gilded Age where the new-money industrialist wants to know why his social-climbing wife is so dead set on having a 'box' at the Academy and if she can't get it why she's backing the projected Metropolitan Opera, after all she doesn't even like opera.

She explains it's not about music at all, but before and during intermissions the elite mingle visiting each other in their boxes and that's where social events are planned and how eligible young rich people meet....

Same prinicple.

Add woke crap, affirmative action for ugly black broads, indoctrination, and now anti-semitism.

You got that right, Maf! Same with nearly all the Ivys.