'Tunnel of Oppression' sheds light on prejudices

The Daily ^ | 02/08/06 | Meghan Peters

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[TAdams8591]

Nein, nein, LOL! Das ist nicht wahr. Ich habe viele Deutsch errineren(sp?), aber also habe Ich viele Deutche vergessen.

[subterfuge]

I wonder if there are any signs about the disgusting ageism that is often expressed by these children?

That's what gets me about these articles. The authors quote mere teenagers as if they are wise old sages. And so many fall for it! "Senior Kelly Ronan, project chair and resident advisor" says that blah, blah, blah...SHE'S IN COLLEGE for goodness sakes, she knows NOTHING about the real world! Rant over, carry on.

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Doch, doch, Sie schrieben gut. Sie haben viel Deutsch sich erinnern an.

[Leisler]

[TAdams8591]

Darn, as I feared. I mispelled "erinnern."

Aber, danke and guten tag, mein freund!

[Checkers]

Wasn't this on "South Park"?

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bis bald

[MEGoody]

the linguistics oppression room.

Oh for crying out loud. What a bunch of maroons.

[BenLurkin]

"Welcome to America, now speak English" was written on the wall of the linguistics oppression room

[radiohead]

SHE'S IN COLLEGE for goodness sakes, she knows NOTHING about the real world!

LOL! I've admitted on these boards to being a former hippie - at Michigan during the VietNam war no less. I love it when these kids come up to me and ask do I know about some cause or another or do I understand some political action they want to take. I have to tell them I was marching and taking over university president's offices before they were even born.

These new fangled college kids can't even demonstrate right. : )

[Plutarch]

The correct term is homonauseous.

That depends on whether you refer to the homos having the quality of provoking nausea, which would be homonauseous, or the feeling that the person has, which would be homonauseated.

nau·seous    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (nôshs, -z-s)
adj.

1. Causing nausea; sickening: “the most nauseous offal fit for the gods” (John Fowles).
2. Usage Problem. Affected with nausea.

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nauseous·ly adv.
nauseous·ness n.

Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean “causing nausea” and that it is incorrect to use it to mean “affected with nausea,” as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean “feeling sick,” it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its “correct” sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.

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nau·se·at·ed (nôz-td, -zh-, -s-, -sh-)
adj.

Affected with nausea.

[antiRepublicrat]

I have been complimented numerous times because I don't have an American accent. But that has an opposite affect.

I have some things down to no accent, but within a minute of the conversation I get the "du bist Amerikaner" (not the cakes) and they switch to English.

[rzeznikj at stout]

This really isn't surprising if we sit and think about it-- after all, we are talking about academia here. And we all know American colleges and universities these days are rarely more than socialist breeding grounds.

So, of course they're going to do stuff like this. Especially if it's a public school.

I'm currently a college student in WI, and at the university I previously attended, they had drag shows and "tolerance classes" in addition to something similar on campus.

As for Housing and Food Services, it's another common name--besides Residence Life or Student Services.

[Riverman94610]

"I get to attend another sexual harassment meeting at work"
Hey,beats working!

[Riverman94610]

Interesting background,radiohead.You are a self descibed middle aged black woman and ex-hippie.
I noticed back then that the hippie crowd had this really weird condescending attitude toward the few blacks in the far out clique.Kind of like,"were having a party tonight,I'll bring the guitar,you bring the Negro"
I will never forget driving through rural Maine in the Summer of 1970 and seeing this black woman hanging out on this porch with about half a dozen long haired white hippies.I always wondered what life circumstances brought her there.
She was the only black person I saw while traveling the state!

[EDINVA]

where would we be without hate? these folks might have to actually WORK !

[radiohead]

I noticed back then that the hippie crowd had this really weird condescending attitude toward the few blacks in the far out clique.

You aren't far from right. Looking back at old movies and thinking about my friends on campus, I can see a whole lot of condescention going on. Moving from the hippie phase to the women's movement, those bra-burners were notoriously elitist and non-inclusive. I wanna laugh in the face of some young white feminists on campus cause I know what the movement was like at the beginning.

I had a different background compared to the other blacks I met at Michigan in the early 70s. I went to a private, almost all white prep school, my father was a lawyer and my mother had a degree, eventually getting a masters. I was from DC and exposed to a lot of culture. Most of the blacks I met back then were from Detroit, were poor, and had very little in common with your typical middle class Michigan student.

I was in the Honors College for 2 years and was never in class w/another black until the last term of my senior year. I had a lot more in common w/the white kids and hippiedom was not an uncomfortable place for me. Even married a white guy - a Nam vet who schooled me on the real world. : )

[thoughtomator]

So where is the tunnel section for the ideological oppression conducted by universities? Or is the rest of the school considered that tunnel?

[Question_Assumptions]

If I planned on settling in Mexico, I'd feel obliged to learn Spanish. If I planned on settling in Japan, I'd feel obliged to learn Japanese. Why is, "Welcome to America, now speak English" so controversial? And let's not forget that a lot of the Americans saying that, or the fathers and grandfathers, were hit by their German, Italian, Polish, etc. parents for speaking German, Italian, Polish, etc. because the Europeans who came to America before WW2 came her because they wanted to be Americans and wanted their children to be Americans, not because they wanted to take whatever country that was awful enough to flee from with them. My Scottish grandfather, who first entered America illegally to get a job before re-entering legally after he got one by the way, said that if he loved Scotland so much, he would have stayed there. What happened to immigrants who want to be Americans rather than wanting to turn American into some sort of third-world Hell-hole like the place they left.