Probably the only logical outcome of years of multiculturalism, all sorts of ethnic studies, women's studies, queer studies and on and on. So many groups with so many grievances have emerged that little can be evaluated objectively, let alone openly criticized.
When I started reading articles about 'safe zones' and how the hypersensitive feelings of students had begun to dictate what discourse was acceptable, I knew a new realm of idiocy and degeneracy had been entered.
It will continue to make liberal college graduates even LESS employable in the private sector where real knowledge and results matter.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Political correctness is self inflicted delusion. If practiced by a critical number of people, especially people in important political, social and business positions, an entire culture corrodes due to a dearth of analytical thinking and expression.
However this professor makes it clear why it is important to bring lawsuits against institutions and individuals that implement and enforce free speech codes. Its important to hold them personally and financially responsible for violations of civil rights.
Things not working out like you planned, Dr. Frankenstein?
If this guy teaches writing he needs to learn how to teach people to write things that will hold the readers’ attention. Very boring.
students are calling their liberal teachers on their ideologically bias.
good.
There are places like N Korea where nothing offensive is ever said publicly. And there are places like Zimbabwe where race trumps everything. Both are basket cases.
Liberal college professor reaping what he has sown. You know he was all behind creating a parade school children convinced they were owned entitlements and were all victims of something or other. Now the chickens have come home to roost and it scares him. Well, you made your bed Mr. Liberal bed-wetting commie college professor.
These liberal students scare you? They terrify me. They are tomorrow’s leaders and they are really going to screw up what is left of this nation after Obama is through with it.
Thanks for nothing pinko commie bed-wetting liberal schmuck. YOU CAUSED THIS you a-hole.
Oh, yes, we've been down this road before, or at least the Chinese have. The author complains that he faces a choice between guarding his every word carefully with respect to the political enthusiasms of the moment or being subjected to a show trial and a public pillory. There is a scene in the movie The Last Emperor wherein the title character sees the teacher who guided him through his own brutal re-education paraded through the streets of Beijing with a dunce cap on his head; his regret is that the kindness shown him by that teacher, such as it was, is not even remotely present in the fanatical eyes of the student fascists. I felt the same sort of moral ambiguity toward that poor teacher as I do to the author, who fortunately is faced only with a possibly inconvenient unemployment should he fail to mind his political correctitude.
It is interesting that he feels the thing is somehow better for his conservative colleagues, if indeed he has any. It isn't. Certain conservative professors of my acquaintance have had to adopt a rather unapologetic confrontational approach developed in faculty lounges, and it is sweetly ironic to contemplate that it is a survival skill that stands them in good stead in the current environment. Unfortunately, that's mostly fantasy.
But it certainly does appear to the author to have gone bad very quickly. I'm not so sure. He cites 2009 as the Good Old Days, but the problem dates well before that. If only now the Little Red Books have begun to appear in student hands and the chanting begun, it doesn't mean the source of the underlying problem is recent. He can find it, though, if he looks in a mirror.
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Im not getting good vibes from this man or his arguments
" If we subscribe to the belief that ideas can be judged within a vacuum, uninfluenced by the social weight of their proponents, we perpetuate a system in which arbitrary markers like race and gender influence the perceived correctness of ideas. "
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
This is the world progressives have wrought ( including this teacher ) I say “suck it up buttercup”.
This is the monster you liberals created.
This article makes me feel marginalized, but I’m not sure it is a micro-aggression, or its sexier variant, the micro-mini-aggression.
This is mostly a fairly well written article by a clearly intelligent man, but there are a few nutty beliefs like this one mixed in. Believing that identity is relevant to truth is his tragic flaw. That liberal centerpiece of his world view made him an academic success, and it is what will destroy him and his field.
The Pythagorean Theorem is true - or false - regardless of whether the speaker is an old while heterosexual male or a twenty-something Hispanic trans-lebsian. The Watts Towers are stable - or not - regardless of whether the designer is an uneducated black man or a young female Muslim illegal with a PhD in gender studies. Nimitz, Spruance, Kinkaid, Yamamoto, Kondo, and Yanagimoto fought at Gettysburg - or they didn't - regardless of the speaker's melanin level or feelings about social justice.
"Cultural weight" associated with identity, and its claimed relevance to truth are insane concepts that should be dismissed and ridiculed at every opportunity.
I used to wonder how mobs were wipped up to “burn the witch.” It is no longer a matter of wonder....
Teacher
You helped make the bed you’re lying in with your own conceits
And you are pretty full of your own self import