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WSU panel says teacher's [racial] comment was 'immature'
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^
| Tuesday, December 12, 2006
| NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Posted on 12/14/2006 11:19:40 AM PST by Sopater
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The report quoted what it said was an unsolicited voice mail message Streamas left for investigators: "This is a racist university. Many of our students say that WSU stands for White Supremacist University.
"I don't care about the hurt feelings of one white person. The feelings of one little hurt white boy who's got all his white-skinned privilege are nothing compared to the hundreds of people he offended with his racist fence," the voice mail said.
I can't find the report that is referred to, but I understand that the professor stated that minorities cannot be guilty of racism since there has to be a "power differential" of which minorities are on the loosing end. It doesn't seem to occur to this prof. that there is also a power differntial between profs. and students at the University.
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:19:41 AM PST
by
Sopater
To: Sopater
Are colostomy bags white?
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:22:31 AM PST
by
almcbean
To: Sopater
To: Sopater
Fortunately for the teacher, maturity is not a requirement for tenure.
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:24:55 AM PST
by
Spok
To: Sopater
"...Streamas, an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies, called him a "white (solid waste)-bag."
Thank goodness this man isn't an English lit professor or some such since his vocabulary is quite elementary...and yes... immature.
To: Sopater
Okay. So, a professor using a racial slur against whites is being immature but a white professor using such a slur is racist?
To: Sopater
"The best cure for offensive speech is more speech," he said.
?? I thought it was a visit from the rev-rund and a big check under the table. Oh, that must just be when minorities are offended.
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:27:47 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
(The media is a self-licking ice-cream cone)
To: Sopater
Truly ironic: Dan Ryder, who is from Olympia.
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:34:01 AM PST
by
proudpapa
(of three.)
To: Ol' Sparky
So, a professor using a racial slur against whites is being immature but a white professor using such a slur is racist?
Looks like you nailed it.
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posted on
12/14/2006 11:34:54 AM PST
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: Sopater
"called him a "white (solid waste)-bag." He called him a white barf bag? Big deal.
To: Ol' Sparky
"So, a professor using a racial slur against whites is being immature but a white
professor stand-up comic or conservative movie maker using such a slur is racist."
Fixed it.
To: Sopater
The report directed some blame for the incident toward WSU's College Republicans, who on Nov. 2 erected a 24-foot-long stretch of chain-link fence on campus as a show of support for the Bush administration's plan to build a fence on the border with Mexico. So the Republicans' exercise of free speech is to blame for some professor then utilizing their free speech to spew a racist epithet? I'm sorry, but the professor is 100% responsible for his own behavior here.
To: Sopater
can you say "white wash"?
I think ya can!
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:06:28 PM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: camle
I felt compelled to write the university: While I'm not normally one to hop on the politcal firestorm bandwagon, when I saw this little gem crop up in my own back yard, I felt compelled to act. I don't find the profane word John Streamas directed at a conservative student over the fence on campus beyond the pale, but I do take exception to preceding the ephitet with the word "white." This is racism. If I refer to a coworker as incompetent or misinformed, I am within my rights, as long as it's true. If I refer to them as stupid, retarded, or imbecilic, I have crossed a professional line. If I go a step further and precede those words with Asian, Mexican, or Jewish, then I would be cleaning out my desk and leaving the company because common sense and our code of conduct would have been clearly violated and my company pays more than lip service to the spirit of these standards. If these words: "I don't care about the hurt feelings of one white person. The feelings of one little hurt white boy who's got all his white-skinned privilege are nothing compared to the hundreds of people he offended with his racist fence," quoted from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are truly the words of John Streamas, he is unfit to teach, he is unfit to work in a professional environment, and Washington State University has been remiss in enforcing even the illusion of professional propriety or the enforcement of responsible personal conduct in its staff and faculty. If the Post-Intelligencer is misinformed, I suggest the university administration take steps to remedy this. If the quote is accurate, and Mr. Streamas has received naught but a reprimand, you have my most profound assurance none of my three children will ever attend university in Pullman.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:32:24 PM PST
by
Heavyrunner
(Socialize this.)
To: Heavyrunner
Uh, the actual letter had things like paragraphs and punctuation...Not sure why those were lost in the pasting...Sorry about that.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:33:06 PM PST
by
Heavyrunner
(Socialize this.)
To: Heavyrunner
had the races been reversed the situation would have a very different outcome.
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posted on
12/14/2006 12:38:48 PM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: Heavyrunner
If the quote is accurate, and Mr. Streamas has received naught but a reprimand, you have my most profound assurance none of my three children will ever attend university in Pullman.
I'm with you. The quoted statement by Mr. Streamas is supposed to be a quote from a voicemail left by Mr. Stramas to investigators. I can't seem to find a copy of the report, but every story that I can find on this issue quotes the same statement.
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posted on
12/14/2006 1:00:23 PM PST
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: Sopater
Source:
http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/john_streamas.php
Biography
Born in Tokyo during a polio scare and raised in post-industrial southwestern Ohio, John Streamas is the first person in his family to complete high school. He earned undergraduate and master's degrees in English. He taught various writing courses in various schools for more than sixteen years before earning a PhD in American Culture Studies and a graduate certificate in Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. His research and writing have earned a grant from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, the American Studies Association's Wise-Susman Prize, and his university's Distinguished Dissertation Award. He is also one of six "New Voices in American Studies" featured in a University of Wyoming symposium. He and his wife Valerie Boydo keep three cats, thousands of books, and hundreds of goofy toys.
Publications
Streamas has published stories, poems, journalism, and reviews. Among his published critical work are studies of assimilationism and tokenism in university culture, Karl Yoneda and Japanese American activism, the teaching of class in introductory Ethnic Studies courses, Melanesians in Terrence Malick's film The Thin Red Line, and history and memory in two films about Japanese American wartime incarceration.
Research interests
Streamas's interests include the racializing of poverty, the racializing of wartime cultures, race and geography, constructions of Pacific peoples in American popular culture, "war brides," race in children's culture, the imperative of a narrative theory of race, and the prospects for cross-racial solidarities.
Teaching interests
Streamas teaches introductory Ethnic Studies and Asian Pacific American Studies as well as Asian Pacific American literature, culture and power, theories of race and ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American women. He hopes to develop courses in race and war, race and geography, race and poverty, and race and university policy.
Turn-ons: Nerf, bobble-heads, The Patch, cephalopods, world peace.
Turn-offs: War, poverty, hyphens.
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posted on
12/14/2006 1:04:46 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Sopater
The center does not have any power to discipline employees, and can make only suggestions for corrective actions, Sanchez said. "It's not our role to take sides," he added. "The reality is never as clean as one side or the other. We simply try and be fair to everyone." I fear for my Republic.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
12/14/2006 1:07:15 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: BenLurkin
Streamas's interests include the racializing of poverty, the racializing of wartime cultures, race and geography, constructions of Pacific peoples in American popular culture, "war brides," race in children's culture, the imperative of a narrative theory of race, and the prospects for cross-racial solidarities. Teaching interests
Streamas teaches introductory Ethnic Studies and Asian Pacific American Studies as well as Asian Pacific American literature, culture and power, theories of race and ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American women. He hopes to develop courses in race and war, race and geography, race and poverty, and race and university policy.
Looks like he is hung up on race; and is determined to perpetuate racism, as long as it only impacts on the white race.
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posted on
12/14/2006 1:13:27 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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