Stumpside Chats #18
Blending in With Liberal Academia [Sep 6, 2024]
I’ve had a lot of people request that I make a post like this, especially when I posted my original academia essays on iFunny. I never made it on iFunny since it was simply going to be too long to post there, and it’s been sitting in my Substack drafts for months now. I’ve just had more important posts so I never made this one. It’s here now doe.
I want to preface this by first qualifying myself as a liblarp expert. Most of you know that I was a history major in undergrad and I’m currently in law school, both of which are pretty libtarded on their own. But very few of you know what my minor is. My minor is in Justice and Equity Studies (JEI) and I was actually the first person to complete the program at my university. Naturally, I had to take a lot of pozzed classes for this minor and I had to liblarp a lot more than any of you probably did. Luckily, there were a handful of history classes that I could take for credits in both my minor and major. I’ve also talked about some of the particularly libtarded classes that I’ve taken but not all of them, so I’ll list the highlights again for you all to refer to.
Philosophy of Race (for JES minor)- Basically Critical Race Theory: The Class. Most of my classmates were AfroMarxists or some sort of homofag. I think I was the only straight White guy in the class, although this was an upper level course so it was not particularly big. About 20ish people or so.
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (History class; worked for both my major and minor)- Do I even need to explain this one?
Comparative Slavery and Abolition (History class; worked for both my major and minor)- We really didn’t talk much about the abolition part. For the most part it was whining about how bad blacks had it. We really didn’t talk about any slavery other than what was in the Americas, but we did cover Ottoman slavery and we briefly touched on Roman slavery.
Modern Youth in the Middle East (History class; worked for both my major and minor)- Basically just talking about kids in the Middle East throughout it’s History. It wasn’t really particularly libtarded and the professor was cool, but it’s one of those classes that only liberals would have.
The Question of Palestine (History; took it as an elective but it would have counted for both had I not already met the requirements for them)- I took this one for the lols more than anything. Virtually all of the class sided with Palestine and I think I was probably the only one who didn’t (but I never said that) and I just abstain from having an opinion on it. There’s a very gemmy screenshot I took from a discussion board in this class that you can read here.
Modern Political Philosophy (Political Science class; worked for my minor)- This class, on paper, wasn’t bad. It started with Hobbes and ended with John Stuart Mill, so I did have to put up with Utilitarianism which sucked. But the main issue is that the professor was a very obvious Utilitarian and Marxist. He had a picture of Che Guevara hanging in his office, and the day after Trump’s indictment he spent about 40 minutes of class time (class was about an hour 20) talking about Orange Man Bad.
I also edited about a dozen or so episodes of a sociology podcast hosted by one of my professors for an elective credit. Some of you may remember the series of notes I posted here referring to this. It was very libtarded, obviously, but I found it particularly enlightening due to the insight it gave into libtard discourse when they are talking behind closed doors.
As I’ve mentioned before, my law school is pretty libtarded (shocker) but I don’t have to liblarp much (yet) since it’s all just lecture hall stuff.
Anyways, now that you all know how good I am at liblarping, let me transfer my esoteric knowledge to all my little chudlets.
Picking Your Mark
It’s important to remember that you are in enemy territory. 99% of your college professors are going to be libs, unless you go to a private Christian school or something. Now, this does not mean they can expel you for your beliefs or anything. You 1st Amendment rights protect your political and religious beliefs and, so long as you aren’t fedposting irl at college, they can’t punish you for them. They may ask you to stop, but they can’t really make you unless you are being disruptive to the class.
So you don’t have to worry yourself to death that you are going to lose all the money you have tied up in your education, because you won’t unless you are like actually calling for TND in the middle of class. But you’re here to liblarp so you probably aren’t doing that. What you’re really trying to avoid here is getting on your professors’ bad side so that they don’t shaft your grades, and to avoid killing any chance of a social life in college.
Anyway, I say this because the first thing any good liblarper does is read the room. You need to look at everyone else in the class and get a feel for them. Get an idea of their political beliefs. Who is a troon, who is wearing a cross necklace, what stickers do people have on their laptops, covertly listen in on conversations to figure out what people think, and definitely make sure to peep their physiognomy.
You need to categorize people into three basic categories:
Libtard- Likely the most common. For the purposes of liblarping, this includes anyone left of center.
NeoCon- Numbers of NeoCons will vary depending on location (the South obviously has more) but unless you are at a private school, they will likely be pretty vastly outnumbered by libtards.
Fellow Traveler- This is the rarest of them all. These are the people who are truly sympathetic to your own beliefs. You will be lucky to even find one in your time at college, but make sure to befriend them if you do. Usually they are trying to hide just as much as you are, so unless you pick up on dogwhistles or something you probably won’t even notice them, nor they you. We will talk more on this later.
By categorizing people into these categories you are essentially setting boundaries for how you act, i.e: when to code switch1 and what code to switch to.
Libtards are the enemy and you have to be fully on guard around them. Refrain from using gay in the pejorative sense, don’t call things retarded, no slurs (obviously), and apply some level of liblarp when talking to them.
NeoCons are those you can relax more around. You can probably call things gay and retarded around them, you don’t need to liblarp (at least not in the same way), but you probably still can’t be racist around them (except to White people). Treat this as your safe haven and try to pick out a few particularly chill ones to befriend. If you can’t find a Fellow Traveler, these are your best shot at an island of sanity in college, which is critically important.
Fellow Travelers are ideal. With people like this, you can be completely honest about what you believe. You may not share the exact same beliefs, but they will still accept you infinitely more than NeoCons or libtards. You may even be able to coordinate redpills to see if you can bring normies into the light. They can also back you up in class if you start arguing with the professor or other students, and just knowing they are there is often enough to help keep you sane.
The Mask
Actual liblarp is somewhat tricky.
First of all, you must understand how the liberal thinks. Most of us have this figured out by this point, but if you don’t just browse Twitter or Reddit (or here on Substack lol) for a little while. Learn the jargon that they use, learn some of the big names in libtard discourse like W. E. B. Du Bois and Angela Davis, maybe even skim some libtard theory if you feel like it.
Second, don’t over do it. Don’t constantly bring up libtard politics. Most of the people in college are libtards, but very few of them are so into politics that it’s all they want to talk about. If they are, they will definitely let you know. But if you talk about politics too much, it will make it harder for you to blend in.
Third, include some dog whistles. Refer to relatively obscure historical events that are commonly discussed in /our/ circles. Take the devil advocate position in debates and be weirdly good at it, but play it off as a joke. Watch for any reactions that might betray chudly sympathies.
Lastly, remember that most of the people you will meet are normal. Most people in your class may be mildly libtarded but they actually probably don’t care that much about being libtards. For most people it’s basically just a subconscious thing that they do to ease their time in college, at least for White people. Assume all gay and brown people are party hardliners, because they often will be. Around these more normal types, you really don’t have to liblarp that much. Just be casual.
Liblarpers Have LAYERS
The above section is how you make your liblarp mask, but you actually need at least 2 masks. The liblarp mask is the mask that is on the outermost layer of the dozen mask wearing wojak.
You must also have a NeoCon mask. This serves two purposes: 1) NeoCons will like you more, and 2) if your liblarp mask fails, liberals will think you are just a NeoCon rather than a chud with rage.
I also recommend that you have an EdgeNat mask. Ideally underneath the liblarp mask, but it doesn’t really matter. When I liblarped in college, I pretended to be edgy in ways that were adjacent to the libtard perception of RW chuds. I called poor people dirty and insisted they were not people. I was, ostensibly, a staunch monarchist. I was an unashamed supporter of the British Empire (I actually believe this though), and more. I was able to say these things and still be popular, because most people just laughed it off. You must construe these things in a way that people just assume you are joking. This way, you can straight up tell them what you believe and they will just think you are making some sort of convoluted joke. This is a very useful tool to have.
Choosing Your Battles
Arguing with your professors is awesome. It is really fun, and you usually aren’t learning anything anyway so it isn’t wasting class time.
But you can’t do it all the time. There were a lot of professors I didn’t like or disagreed with politically, but I usually kept my mouth shut. In the class I mentioned above that was taught by a literal Marxist (Modern Political Philosophy), I argued with him almost every day we had class. Often about stuff that had nothing to do with the material. But I was able to do this because he was not a well-liked professor. My classmates did not like him; he rambled on and was never really clear. On days that I didn’t derail class, he would often talk about stuff that still wasn’t relevant. Recall the 40 minute rambling on Orange Man following his indictment. I had nothing to do with that, UNTIL most of my classmates starting getting visibly annoyed that he was wasting time that could be spent reviewing for exams. At that point I pointed out that we were wildly off topic, and he began talking about the material shortly after.
Do not argue with the popular professors, even if it’s an easy layup. If you want to correct them on some fact, go ahead. But do it in a diplomatic way that is not hostile. Often they may even thank you for it. But do not be adversarial to them. You probably aren’t going to win that popularity contest, which is what it really is.
Also do not argue with professors if your classmates see value in class time. If you have a meandering professor like I did, then he’s probably not even talking about the material most of the time. But if they do talk about stuff that will be on the exam, don’t disrupt class. It will make your classmates mad at you, because you are disrupting their exam review and potentially affecting their GPA.
These rules are generally off the table during discussion days. In higher level classes, you may have discussion days where you are supposed to give your thoughts on the material. Since the professor isn’t lecturing, you can speak your mind without worrying about interrupting your peers. Often times, your peers will even appreciate your energetic discussion, because it means they don’t have to talk. Just don’t over do the chud statements.
Find Wild Chuds
Like I said before, finding a Fellow Traveler is very useful. Make references to inherently RW memes like Agartha and Hyperborea. This will get their attention. Bring up RW topics. Mention historical figures and philosophers popular among /our/ circles.
The EdgeNat mask is very useful for this. By saying these things while wearing your EdgeNat mask, you have plausible deniability for being a chud. You are not really a RW chud extraordinaire; you just have an edgy sense of humor, which is much more socially acceptable. But you must also be a little too into the stuff you talk about. EdgeNats don’t really know Nietzsche. They don’t really know Ernst Jünger. They don’t usually know all sorts of historical trivia about 20th century politics.
If you do it properly, you will just seem like a funny guy with an edgy sense of humor to most of your class, but any chuds will have gem alerts going off in their heads.
I found a little chuddy in one of my classes doing this. I made these sorts of jokes. I larped as a monarchist. I defended the British Empire. I played the devil’s advocate. Eventually, he started to inquire about my true political beliefs. He told me that he thought I was just sort of an EdgeNat, but there was too much specific information and jargon that I used for me to have been a typical EdgeNat. Clearly, I was versed in esoteric chud knowledge. So he eventually had to figure it out. Now he reads my Substack.
Observe
To accomplish all of this, you must first complete an intense reconnaissance phase. It may take you some time if this is your first professional attempt at liblarping, but that’s fine. You will get better at it as you go along, but as you get to know your classmates and professors better you will have to spend less time doing recon when you start a new class.
What I did, generally speaking, was to simply observe for the first few weeks of class. I didn’t say anything unless called on, I just watched. I noted social dynamics, political beliefs, personality traits, etc. and I added all of that to my internal chud databanks. Once I had gathered enough intel, I opened up more. I applied what I learned, combined with esoteric chud knowledge, to become one of the most vocal and well-liked students in the class. I learned how to dominate a discussion without being disliked. I made friends with a lot of people, even if I didn’t really like them. Then, when the next semester rolled around and I got new classes I repeated the process. Except it didn’t take as long this time, since I already knew most of my classmates and I only had to do recon on the professors. By senior year, I knew all of the professors I had and all of my classmates. I dropped the recon phase entirely and just dove right in.