'History of Water'. Get a real major and you won't have these problems.
Posted on 05/01/2017 10:09:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
At the University of Florida, a student was recently penalized for writing “man” instead of “humankind” in a class paper.
History major Martin Poirier wrote “Water is a thing prior to man” on a paper for a history class called “History of Water.”
“Thoughtful paper, although the writing-mechanics errors are killing you,” Professor Jack Davis wrote at the bottom of the paper. He gave the student a B minus, according to a copy of the essay published in the student news outlet the Daily Nerv.
Davis circled “man” and referenced his Writing Mechanics Exercise #20, which draws a distinction between “mankind” and “humankind.”
Davis defended the penalization in an email to The College Fix. He explained that the “exercise and inclusion of ‘humankind’ are consistent with the Chicago Manual of Style, the style and the usage guide followed in the discipline of history.”
Davis also said the exercise is “not to enforce political correctness” but is “both a grammar refresher and a style and user guide.”
It was also not for the use “man” alone that Poirier lost points. Rather, Davis explained to The Fix that students lose points when they don’t follow two or more standards.
“I do not lower a student’s grade for only one inconsistence, and I single out no student as an example,” Davis said.
Poirier’s paper was selected for class discussion, having been emailed to his classmates “with anonymity strictly maintained,” according to Davis.
But Poirier decided to publicly defend his use of the word “man” during the class discussion, calling it politically motivated, according to the Daily Nerv student news outlet.
In a Facebook message to The College Fix, Poirier said the “History of Water” class is “certainly biased,” but that he believes “Davis is rather moderate compared to his peers and formulated the gender neutral rule in order to be ‘by the books.’”
“It is on those grammarians who, like the rest of the academy, have eagerly stoked the slide towards gender [and] social anarchy,” he told The Fix.
This incident in question of a lower grade was not the first time Poirier has faced what he considers a troubling trend on campus.
“Political correctness on college campuses goes far deeper than this one excess by this one teacher. By and large, the radical liberationist ideas go unchallenged because no truly oppositional content is presented,” he said.
The College Fix also reached out to the university for a statement.
“We do not comment on student matters,” campus spokesperson Janine Sikes said via email.
Ping!.................
Someone please stop the madness.
Man is short for human but I wouldn’t expect a lib to understand that. Anything and everything is offensive to them except for crime, communism, terrorism and corruption in politics.
Mind Control. (It has been going on for over 100 years in our skool system to flip Good and Evil and erase the Christian Worldview so Up is Down, and Vice is Virtue, (to collapse Western Civilization).
Vice is ignorance and vice only creates slaves for the State. Destroying Language and Traditions has been taking place for 80 years to destroy virtue and wisdom of the ages, which is necessary for the Marxist “Utopia” where orgies with little babies and baby-sacrifices (whoops— is normalized already) is made “normal” and “good” as is the boy harems and polygamy of islam.
Sex has to be meaningless and irrational—completely removed from Reality (Natural Law) and Truth so children will have little irrational tribal mindsets for their slavery for life.
. . . and don’t forget . . . it is now humankindager.
This was posted last week. I posted that just after reading his first sentence I would have given him an F.
Well, and having sex with goats, boats, and raincoats. Those don’t offend them either.
He should be penalized for writing that sentence, not using the word "man."
Professor Jack Davis is a freak.
Sorry, but you don’t get to change the meaning of words. Man has two meanings. Male of the species, and the species, male and female.
It already means “mankind”.
That would be fine if it were based just solely on its content and not the PC grammar contrarian viewpoint.............
hey what about huwomankind
Last week the county work crew had to remove the humankindhole cover to clean out the storm drain.
[[“We do not comment on student matters,” campus spokesperson Janine Sikes said via email.]]
they WILL comment on student matters ... IN COURT if they persist in doing this crap!
True, but apparently the prof made a point of being excessively PC...................
Teacher should clarify the deduction was for grammar.
'History of Water'. Get a real major and you won't have these problems.
Need to get these psychopaths out of academia settings. NOW!
These so called professors are mentally ill. Cleanse colleges.
If that sentence were a house, it would be condemned for poor construction...............
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