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Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:41 pm to hendersonshands
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I'm not pretending like I'm breaking news. I just want to know what it was that offended them. I just watched a 20 year old curse out a distinguished professor, just wondering why.
1 The university sent out an email asking students to be culturally sensitive with their costumes.
2 The professor's wife, also a professor, sent out an email with a counterpoint basically saying that college students should be able to endure the occasional obnoxious costume without going all to pieces. Her husband backed her up, sparking a backlash.
3. Complicating all this is that the husband and wife professors are co-heads of one of Yale's residential colleges, which means they have a closer relationship with students than an ordinary faculty member would. Some of the students felt that they should have been more sensitive, given their position. OTOH, when the professor was accosted, he was on his way to visit another of his students, who was in the hospital recovering from surgery.
TL/DR, it's typical undergrad bullshite, that nobody outside the gates of campus ever took notice of, but now it's the internet era and it's gone viral.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:42 pm to hendersonshands
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Just watched a video where a professor got yelled at because he believes in free speech.
Even at Yale, free speech is fine so long as the liberals agree with what you're talking about.
Free speech is not fine if liberals disagree with your message.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:44 pm to hendersonshands
I love how she told the professor what his job description should be. Even though being a professor has nothing to do with anything she described.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:46 pm to Jim Rockford
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2 The professor's wife, also a professor, sent out an email with a counterpoint basically saying that college students should be able to endure the occasional obnoxious costume without going all to pieces. Her husband backed her up, sparking a backlash.
I completely agree with her. I'd like to think most adults would.
The idea that a white woman dressing up as Pocahontas on Halloween is offensive culture appropriation is absolutely ridiculous.
Culture assimilation and "appropriation" occur all the time. You can't stop it. It always occurs. It occurs when different cultural groups are exposed to one another.
It's not offensive, it's reality.
These kids are idiots.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:48 pm to SabiDojo
I think it was Mulan. Can't be havin' no blonde white girl dressing up as Mulan brah.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:49 pm to Hazelnut
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love how she told the professor what his job description should be. Even though being a professor has nothing to do with anything she described.
Easily the best part.
And, a university is SUPPOSED to be a place where ideas are freely exchanged. The bully approach by SJW's tries to discourage opposing viewpoints, which is both inappropriate and not conducive to logical discourse.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:51 pm to Hazelnut
I'm so glad I never saw this when I was in college. The only thing the weird nerds ever did was pretend to be zombies and wear teletubbies costumes
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:52 pm to SabiDojo
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I think young, unintelligent people want to feel like they are part of some revolutionary social movement. This SJW stuff is easy because it attacks something all human beings possess: bias, whether it's good or bad.
Yes and it isn't new. That's why in the 60s and 70s you had kids who were sympathizing with communists, joining evangelical churches and then supporting Palestinian terror in consecutive months.
It's simultaneously about the desire to be unique, perceived as contemplative/academic, and the need for acceptance.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:53 pm to Hazelnut
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I love how she told the professor what his job description should be. Even though being a professor has nothing to do with anything she described.
Well, as stated above, this guy's position involves more than teaching and research. He is, in a sense, responsible for the well being of the students in his "house," as they call it at Yale. Now, the girl goes way overboard with what that entails and how he should carry it out, but she's not wrong in the macro sense.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:57 pm to Jim Rockford
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Well, as stated above, this guy's position involves more than teaching and research. He is, in a sense, responsible for the well being of the students in his "house," as they call it at Yale. Now, the girl goes way overboard with what that entails and how he should carry it out, but she's not wrong in the macro sense.
I read that after I made the post. But still, College in general is a place that challenges you to think and embrace opposing viewpoints. So what she's upset about undermines a foundational purpose of college.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:58 pm to Jim Rockford
He's thinking there is no direct threat to her safety.
It's not what she wants to hear.
He is their Master and knows when they are and aren't safe. The girl is on her period.
It's not what she wants to hear.
He is their Master and knows when they are and aren't safe. The girl is on her period.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 4:59 pm to hendersonshands
Because administrators, media, corporations, and government have decided that the patients should run the asylum. It's like parents who decide to just be friends with their kids and stop disciplining them or telling them what to do.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:00 pm to Pettifogger
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Yes and it isn't new. That's why in the 60s and 70s you had kids who were sympathizing with communists, joining evangelical churches and then supporting Palestinian terror in consecutive months.
It's simultaneously about the desire to be unique, perceived as contemplative/academic, and the need for acceptance.
Exactly
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:03 pm to LucasP
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rebel rousers
You're off your game.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:04 pm to hendersonshands
Not enough safe spaces and micro aggressions weren't checked
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:06 pm to SabiDojo
All holidays are offensive and I will not eat until they are all banned.
New Year's - Ageism and offensive to elderly who go to sleep at 8 PM, and if the prior year was a person, how would you think it feels?
MLK Day - Yearly triggers African Americans reminding all of his death
Valentine's - Single and ugly people mostly. But married men as well who feel forced into gift giving for no other reason than it's what the capitalists want
Mardi Gras - Flat-chested women. Tiny babies.
St. Patrick's Day - Irish oppression. Midgets.
Easter - Atheists
Tax Day - People who work for a living
Cinco de Mayo - Mexicans
Mother's Day - Fathers
Memorial Day - Germans
Flag Day - Chinese factory workers
Father's Day - Mothers
July 4th - The English, Democrats
Labor Day - Those on welfare
Columbus Day - Indians
Halloween - Nurses, Police, Firemen, School Girls, Blacks, Asains, Wicca
Veterans Day - Veterans
Thanksgiving - Indians
Presidents' Day - Voters
Christmas - Coffee drinkers
New Year's - Ageism and offensive to elderly who go to sleep at 8 PM, and if the prior year was a person, how would you think it feels?
MLK Day - Yearly triggers African Americans reminding all of his death
Valentine's - Single and ugly people mostly. But married men as well who feel forced into gift giving for no other reason than it's what the capitalists want
Mardi Gras - Flat-chested women. Tiny babies.
St. Patrick's Day - Irish oppression. Midgets.
Easter - Atheists
Tax Day - People who work for a living
Cinco de Mayo - Mexicans
Mother's Day - Fathers
Memorial Day - Germans
Flag Day - Chinese factory workers
Father's Day - Mothers
July 4th - The English, Democrats
Labor Day - Those on welfare
Columbus Day - Indians
Halloween - Nurses, Police, Firemen, School Girls, Blacks, Asains, Wicca
Veterans Day - Veterans
Thanksgiving - Indians
Presidents' Day - Voters
Christmas - Coffee drinkers
This post was edited on 11/9/15 at 5:13 pm
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:08 pm to ell_13
I'm gonna trigger the shite out of some mashed potatoes in a few weeks
Posted on 11/9/15 at 5:18 pm to SabiDojo
I think she ought to at least face some kind of disciplinary hearing for dropping f-bombs at faculty. She can argue to her heart's content loudly and proudly whatever retarded point she's trying to make, but treating faculty like that deserves some blowback, especially when the dude is being respectful enough to listen to her bullshite.
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