Dear Professor Hong, you are wrong. The Linolium Cut started in 1905, and was not a populist movement. Yes, I realize some of that was a quote, but you are still wrong. You will not stop being wrong. You could have been right if you'd taken three minutes to google linolium cuts, or Linocuts as they are apparently normally called; but you did not. This is why no one likes you. You're a fauxexpert on everything you talk about. You're no better than a talking head on Fox or MSNBC

Many of your arguments would be quite powerful if they were true. Unfortunately, as tends to be the case with people who make their points the way you do, you have your historical fact wrong. Admittedly, I could be mistaken, but as I understand it, and that's the important phrase there because I don't claim my knowledge to be absolute, but YOU ARE WRONG. About everything you're saying. Your points would hold if these were the first, or even early linocuts. THEY'RE NOT. You're wrong. Shut up. No, seriously, stop talking. You're building your entire argument off of a false premise. Like you do almost every lecture.

Do you do research? Ever? Yes, you obviously do some, but not about the core facts. You some how manage to research the symbol but not the medium the symbol is on. Then again, you're teaching a comic book class without ever looking at the central foundational texts that make up the graphic novel genre, so I really shouldnt be surprised. We have not looked at these works from an artistic perspective, just from a symbolic one. You pay lip service to the idea, but you don't explore the medium, ever.

Just stop. Please. Or make attendance not mandatory. Because this class is painful. To the nth degree.