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originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: bastion
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: bastion
OK, explain to me how you participate in a gender studies class and study gender if your teacher does not let you use gender terminology without it lowering your grade?
You use wit and vocabulary to find the appropriate terminology, if someone lacks the basic skills to do that or respect for their professor and university syllabus they clearly lack the basic skills, respect or personality for the profession.
So, you can study gender without using gender terminology?
Somehow, I doubt it, or are you going to contend that the problem is averted by using womyn?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: Teikiatsu
Boys have a penis. Girls have verginas.
Unless of course, they are intersex.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good, strong, seemingly black-and-white declaration though.
KISS
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: Glinda
I can tell you're troubled by certain aspects of modern academia. Don't feel rained on.
originally posted by: angeldoll
Multicultural courses are taught in most universities and require an understanding of other cultures and exclude racist views. Students who don't "get it" are asked to leave the class, and sometimes the actual field of study. This is not something new, but somebody making a big deal out of something old.
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: DelMarvel
I have known students who maintained racist views in a major which required working with people of different cultures,
to be "relocated" to another field of study. Which is how it should be. For example, a racist should not be a social worker or a psychologist, and those disciplines don't want those people having their degrees. It doesn't speak well for the university.
originally posted by: Grambler
What about deferring to students of color? I have a disagreement with a person of color about something and I must automatically concede or I am a racist?
Academia is entering a dangerous path. When certain arguments are taboo and not to be engaged in, when one is deemed more correct based on the color of their skin, we are not teaching people, we are indoctrinating them
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
The quote from Dr. Streamas' syllabus that you're referring to actually says "Reflect your grasp of history and social relations by respecting shy and quiet classmates, and by deferring to the experiences of people of color."
Introduction to Multicultural Literature
I certainly wouldn't have stated it that way, but it seems the point would not be to challenge the presentation of injustice by people of color merely on the basis that such things "don't happen."
Also, notice a few statements above in the "community rules" the professor says: "Feel free to disagree, respectfully."
Now again, I wouldn't take this class (or most any other, as I find most all modern academia to be fascist personally), this is their class, they design it, and students sign up for it, and they have a choice in the matter.