re: The liberal propaganda has gone too far

Agreed

The kid was making an emotional argument about how it makes him feel. Not a rational argument based in facts

So the teacher needs to clarify what the value of the exercise is supposed to be.
Is it the clear presentation of the argument or the writing “style” of the argument that counts

If I write a compelling argument that the sun rises in the west do I get a reward for my writing or get dinged because my argument is factually wrong no matter how well I present it?

He sounds like a future premium OT poster that will relish in observing the outrage his writing can create, and will passionately argue just to argue.

If you gave him that grade based on sloppy organization and grammar, okay. If even part of your being graded him based on his opinion, you are a horrible piece of shite and shouldn’t be a teacher.

Either way, you are definitely violating school policy by posting very easily identifiable parts of his submitted work online here. Please consider you are publicizing his grade, and then very publicly insinuating that your personal assumptions of his character and disagreement with his arguments contributed to his grade.

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This was his topic sentence: “Madden represents the common American Motif for the upper class to enslave and imprison both people of color and of Caucasian decent to aggrandize their own economic state.”

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Posted the word for word title of your student’s essay. Why the frick would you do this?

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I’m all for being politically correct

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I'm not. It's a large part of the decline in this country. It stifles the truth from being told and understood.

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promotes the selling of human beings

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did you ask for a specific example of what human being was sold?

There is a certain slavery aspect when players are inspect at combine

Then it forks a little NFL players have choice and go on to make millions

Slaves got chained and head to some OT Baws great grandfather cotton field.

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I'm just saying that the kid's argument was most likely centered around the games main mechanic of buying and selling players at auction. A feature that exists in the game, but obviously not in real life.

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Never played the game; not sure of the mechanics - so tell me this... does this auction seem to indicate that the player being "sold" is thus owned in all aspects by another human being? Or is it obvious to even a casual observer that the "sale" is for services on the football field?

If the latter, then the kid's point is a pathetic one. And that has no relation to his grade on the paper. But the OP did say that instructions weren't followed, so who knows.

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lsudave1

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I see you've tripled down on the dumbassery here.

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He argued that putting prices on different player cards is just an animated version of slavery, objectification, and makes it seem as though the players are property

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I mean, using this logic, basically anybody who works for money is a slave? Is my boss a slave master because I go to work and he pays me to make him income?

I feel like property when I work

So.. everybody is a slave owner and racist

Was I not sold at 50k salary to bring in 150K profit in sales?