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Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’ ( Washington State )
Campus Reform ^ | Aug 29, 2015 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 08/30/2015 7:25:08 AM PDT by george76

Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” "male," and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to non-white students.

According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”

The punishment for repeatedly using the banned words, Breikss warns, includes “but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and— in extreme cases— failure for the semester.”

Breikss is not the only WSU faculty member implementing such policies.

Much like in Selena Breikss’s classroom, students taking Professor Rebecca Fowler’s “ Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” course will see their grades suffer if they use the term “illegal alien” in their assigned writing.

According to her syllabus, students will lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or “illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’ migrants/immigrants/persons.” Throughout the course, Fowler says, students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; academia; academicbias; alien; aliens; amnesty; foreigninvader; illegal; illegalalien; illegalaliens; illegals; newspeak; pc
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To: Shimmer1
I would use whatever words I thought best for the situation and I would sue the pants off the university and the professor if he failed me or even punished me for speaking freely.

We need more of this.

Find this type of class and enroll for the specific reason of suing the snot out of them.

21 posted on 08/30/2015 7:39:43 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: BigEdLB

“Swing” and “Field” aren’t too far behind? I remember reading last year that the city of Seattle would start banning the words “brown bag” (because it meant black person at one time, which I never knew?) and “citizen” because it hurt illegals feelings. Skies the limit.


22 posted on 08/30/2015 7:40:37 AM PDT by albie
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To: george76

Yet we are afraid to demand that the term undocumented be dropped, or white privilege, or that gays not be allowed to indoctrinate children. We are all to blame this goes way beyond democrat / republican or liberal/conservative.

This is dangerous and UnAmerican and yes it is what infected that idiot who killed the reporter on air.


23 posted on 08/30/2015 7:43:22 AM PDT by Williams
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To: going hot

In a sane society the students or more likely the parents would remove these creeps from the college.


24 posted on 08/30/2015 7:45:19 AM PDT by Williams
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To: realcleanguy

They also plan on handing out yellow stars to wear.


25 posted on 08/30/2015 7:46:30 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: george76

The only students who would take these classes are those who wouldn’t use the “bad words” anyway.


26 posted on 08/30/2015 7:47:36 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: george76

They are disenfranchising an entire generation of students! Especially for the young heads full of mush; the more intelligent ones will, of course, reject this insanity! I’m so grateful I went to school at a time when college was supposed to open the mind to thousands of points of views.


27 posted on 08/30/2015 7:48:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: george76

The alumni of the University can send a message by sending a letter to the Alumni Association and/or Foundation with a $0 contribution noted because of the University allowing such practices. It only helps if one has given previously. however, the message is sent when this happens. I know that has worked at other institiutions.


28 posted on 08/30/2015 7:48:44 AM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Classes like these are often required for graduation.


29 posted on 08/30/2015 7:49:47 AM PDT by EBH (There's a sucker born every minute)
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To: george76

It’s a Government school. ‘Nuff said!


30 posted on 08/30/2015 7:51:31 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: george76

“Women & Popular Culture”, “ Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies”, “Introduction to Multicultural Literature”

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Sounds like elective courses to me and I’d be walking out. If not electives, then I’d be changing schools.


31 posted on 08/30/2015 7:52:12 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: george76

 “Women & Popular Culture” class

“Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” course”

Because the world needs ditch diggers too.


32 posted on 08/30/2015 7:56:42 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Williams
True.

However, I submit the societies that these freaks teach in are not sane.

33 posted on 08/30/2015 7:58:11 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Qiviut

Women and Popular Culture....eheheheeh. They should just offer a course that students watch ‘The View’ on TV and get college credit.
The course content would be about the same leftist tripe and garbage. Save on some gas too,


34 posted on 08/30/2015 8:01:20 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: george76

brainwashing and mind control paid for in the form of tuition fees. Used to pay “little dictators” who fantasize they are educators not population controllers for The State. Scary


35 posted on 08/30/2015 8:01:39 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: Amagi

Why in the world would any rational human take courses like “Women & Popular Culture”, or “ Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies”? Classes like these are totally worthless in the real world. I would never hire anyone who had this type of HR red flag on their academic transcripts.


36 posted on 08/30/2015 8:04:51 AM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: george76

When the revolution comes, make sure you have plenty of ropes and tall trees for the communists who infect our colleges and universities.


37 posted on 08/30/2015 8:05:08 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: george76

Another American ISIS working to destroy American values and culture. Probably hosts book burning in his spare time. The anti-American plops are getting bolder.


38 posted on 08/30/2015 8:05:38 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A country without borders is not a country. Where did America go?)
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To: george76

Foreign Invaders = Illegal Aliens.

Works for me.


39 posted on 08/30/2015 8:05:59 AM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: Amagi
"You may know society is doomed when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you; [and] when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

There is only one way this can end.

40 posted on 08/30/2015 8:08:41 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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