Posted on 08/12/2016 11:26:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A leftist art professor from the University of Florida has advised her students to avoid the phrase "melting pot," because that's racist.
If you're a student, and you happen to wind up in Professor Pamela Brekka’s class Art Appreciation: American Diversity and Global Arts, you might want to avoid uttering "melting pot" or she'll knock you down a few grades.
A portion of Brekka's online syllabus reads in all-caps:
"DO NOT EVER USE THE PHRASE ‘MELTING POT’ IN THIS CLASS. IN THIS CLASS WE CELEBRATE DIVERSITY, NOT SAMENESS."
In an interview with Campus Reform, Brekka stated she felt the term didn't accurately reflect diversity, saying the phrase "signals a Euro-White Colonial standard, point blank, period." Brekka rather prefers the other analogy of America as a salad bowl, where individual ingredients are mixed together but remain distinct.
As noted by the The Daily Caller, professor Brekka admitted to knocking students' grades for saying the phrase, though she denies using it as a "strict policy."
According to one of the professor's students, Brekka's leftist fanaticism goes into other areas as well, with one of her discussions focusing on whether or not "architectural design has been dominated by men in order to promote a social/political order dominated by men."
"It’s almost as if the questions, how they’re worded, you can only answer them this one certain left-wing way," the student told Campus Reform. "It was not a college level course … because we didn’t get a lot of the information."
I thought “melting pot” was out the window 20 years ago.
IN THIS CLASS WE CELEBRATE DIVERSITY, NOT SAMENESS.
And we will celebrate this diversity by all thinking the same way, which is MY WAY!
America’s universities need a good house cleaning.
The left are insane. They would rather knowingly destroy our way of life just to stick it to those “repugnicans”.
“Leftist professor”: colleges and universities are infested with ‘em.
The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements “melting together” into a harmonious whole with a common culture. It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States.
This retarded piece of crap is the true racist. We’re taking this country back and shitheads like this are going to be moved out of the way.
Yes, it was replaced by “chamber pot”.
Invest in blindfolds, tobacco and bricks.
All soon to be a growth industry.
Boy, do they ever. People actually pay to hear/learnamd this crap? and then they tax you......and then you die and they tax you again.
“Silly Woman”. As sung to the tune Pretty Woman.
This prof. needs to check her white privledge and fire herself so a person of color can have her job.
We will agree to one philosophy er to ah... promote diversity!
I am 99% white 1% black, my wife is Mexican with 20% Native American blood, my stepson is 50% Indian sub continent, my granddaughter is 50% Cuban American. My daughter in law is 100% Mexican. My other daughter in law is 25% Japanese, I guess that means my family is not a melting pot but racist?
My 25% Japanese daughter in law’s grandfather was an officer during WWII. His parents were in an interment camp during WWII in California while he defended our nation. He was an engineer with a degree from Texas A&M.
We need to get over this Bull S—t and realize we are Americans!
ps
We all work and have never taken welfare.
I’d like to sign up for her class and tell her to f*** off every single day.
I've always wondered how that works...
I am one-sixteenth Polish, one-sixteenth Ruthenian (Ukrainian), one-sixteenth Hungarian, one-sixteenth Rumanian, one quarter German, one-quarter Danish, and one-quarter Norwegian. But how can a person be 1% anything?
Regards,
If you think about it, the label: “professor” is racist!
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