Came across this on my Twitter feed. Professor openly admitting to brainwashing students.
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I treat every instance of someone uttering the word "capitalism" as an indicator of Shitlib indoctrination. There is zero reason to ever bring it up, otherwise. It's a 100% reliable shibboleth for someone who thinks you can litigate away human flaws and force money into the hands of people doing nothing to be worthy of its value; that you can "fix it" with enough lectures and theory. It's either a child who would never know what they're talking about, or an adult who should know better but has been wholly insulated from the consequences of their terrible belief system.
googling 'shibboleth' and hoping it's not CP related
"Shibboleth" is a word that can be pronounced in a whole bunch of different ways, and has no meaning; it's a pile of letters. The original use was that it was written on a piece of paper, and walked around by soldiers, asking people to pronounce the word, in order to root out outsiders and spies. Spies could learn to hide an accent by effectively re-learning the same language, but a word with no fixed pronunciation is much harder to fake. This use of it has made the word Shibboleth self-referential: A "shibboleth" is a word whose use identifies someone as belonging to a faction.
The pronunciation of it is impossible to codify, as that's the whole point. It is any one of "see-bo-let", "see-bo-leth", "shee-bo-let", "shee-bo-leth", "Seb-oh-let", "seb-oh-leth", or really any combination of those three sounds. It could even be "Syb-bowl-ith", with more worldwide accents!