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Prof corrects minority students’ capitalization, is accused of racism - “micro-aggression”
Daily Caller ^ | November 26, 2013

Posted on 11/27/2013 2:33:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 11/27/2013 2:33:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It’s entertaining when a bunch of progressives (including the professor) get tangled up and adversarial over who is more politically correct.


2 posted on 11/27/2013 2:37:21 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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“Two weeks ago a Student of Color and a white female student got into a big discussion,” said Rust. “She wants to use Standpoint Theory [a method of analysis coined by feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, based on the idea that all knowledge is subjective and based on one’s position in society] in her dissertation, and the Student of Color told her she had no business claiming that she was a member of an oppressed group.

“She came back saying there are all kinds of oppression. I likely did not handle the situation well, because I chose not to stop the discussion between them, so it went on for quite a while, and the Students of Color apparently interpreted my silence to mean I wasn’t supporting them.”

WOW! You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. It’s like arguments I used to hear in Berkeley over whether this-or-that was Marxist or Trotskyite. No normal person cares because the distinctions are rubbish.


3 posted on 11/27/2013 2:38:17 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Socrates would be delighted....debate among a state of higher learning was always a good thing. Course, with Socrates...there never is a true winner. There must always be a debate, which leads to another debate, which leads onto another debate.


4 posted on 11/27/2013 2:39:22 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I was in grad school in the ‘80s. Wouldn’t be able to do it in this brave new world:
I would be telling to many people to go **** themselves.


5 posted on 11/27/2013 2:39:44 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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to= too


6 posted on 11/27/2013 2:40:26 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: ModelBreaker

I DUNNO....sounds rassiss


7 posted on 11/27/2013 2:40:50 AM PST by Einherjar
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Since when is a professor *required* to side with any brown student against a white student, regardless of topic?

In any case, the situation would have been made far more ironic had the professor stepped in on that particular topic, because the white student could then immediately point to the professor’s proactive stance against her as proof that whites get oppressed too, and that there are many forms of oppression including ideological.


8 posted on 11/27/2013 2:44:20 AM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: tumblindice

I was in college in the early nineties; I was encouraged by the number of foreign students (primarily Indian and Arab) who didn’t mind telling a feminist professor that their cultures had survived thousands of years with traditional gender roles, and would continue to do so. The furious professor didn’t seem to comprehend that the students’ very presence in her classroom, in her country, were the writing on the wall that the post-Christian West was finished.


9 posted on 11/27/2013 2:44:29 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression,” according to the members of the student group “Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color,” which launched a sit-in during a subsequent meeting of the class.

Showing their illiteracy right there by using "text speech" to name their organization.

10 posted on 11/27/2013 2:46:03 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Another incident demonstrating our culture is being destroyed by our education system.

Some cultures have standards and value achievement, some do not. Our elites have chosen to accept mediocrity. The barbarians are inside the gates. We know from history how that turns out.

Just think the students complaining will soon be teaching our children and grandchildren on a college or university and will be considered by society to be great thinkers.


11 posted on 11/27/2013 2:46:35 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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I wonder how many of these students are actually paying for their “education?”


12 posted on 11/27/2013 2:46:39 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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“The report urged the university to strengthen its bias incident response procedures and hire a Discrimination Officer.”

Of course; another BS job in the grievance industry - probably to be filled by some token who doesn’t use proper grammar. We are desperately trying to create work for people with no marketable skills.


13 posted on 11/27/2013 2:46:49 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Tried to read it.

It all started to look like blah blah blah blah...

At what point do the parasites finally kill the host?


14 posted on 11/27/2013 2:48:04 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Students that don’t want to be taught? I guess they should just purchase their degrees outright, or have the taxpayers do that for them, in actuality. Surely then they will have the equality they demand?


15 posted on 11/27/2013 2:48:46 AM PST by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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cracKa aIn’T gonna TelL mE when to use bIg letteRs,,,


16 posted on 11/27/2013 2:52:04 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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“micro-aggression,”

Micro (µ) is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10-6 (one millionth).

17 posted on 11/27/2013 2:53:43 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (What we said when we said what we said was. Period. End of story.)
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So “micro-economics” is “one-millionth economics”? What’s “macro-economics” then?


18 posted on 11/27/2013 2:55:18 AM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Their days are numbered, as are the hairs on their heads. Obama is creating a lot of cant-free young people.


19 posted on 11/27/2013 2:56:29 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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Why did you correct your spelling? Are you racist against yourself?

I find it ironic that it used to be illegal to teach negroes to read and write, and now their fighting to bring that back. Democrats are good at what they do.


20 posted on 11/27/2013 2:56:38 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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