You probably had zero problems with racism, bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination either.
Regardless that some people might think nobody ever had a problem with language in school, the subject at hand is not that.
Nobody called anyone a nigger or even used the word.
You’ll be gratified to know that not all college aged adults are this fragile.
Talk to their doctor if their bad feels are preventing them from functioning fully.
It seems to me that before doing anything, the dean should have listened to the tape and talked to the professor and some other students in the class. Did he do that? It certainly doesn’t seem that he did. But then as a professor I’m naturally prejudiced against deans.
Not only that, Negra Modelo is a popular dark beer, especially in Mexico.
And an excellent fig variety (bears heavily when still a small tree) is Petite Negra.
There probably will be a reckoning about those two names before long.
All I can say is that it’s a good thing Tyler Negron is dead before he was forced at gunpoint to change his name.
Everyone needs sensitivity training. The seminar will be in Montenegro.
That’s too far to travel for Americans. Better make it Matamoros TX.
If there were other reasons to believe this professor were racist, you might have a point here. But clearly there aren’t. This entire thing is a manufactured fantasy based solely on the superficial resemblance of the phonemes of the Chinese word.
Clearly they didn’t actually do what they claimed, or they were extremely careless in their “research”, because no actual Mandarin speaker would have told them this. Once again, there are two ways to pronounce the word in standard Mandarin (nage, neige), but it’s always the latter when it’s used as a filler word. The professor’s pronunciation was perfectly standard and correct, and (as noted in the transcript above) he could not have been more explicit that he was speaking a Chinese word.
And it seems to me that it is most likely to succeed when people like you and others in this thread prevaricate, and refuse to respond with a straightforward condemnation of the students’ foolishness and the Dean’s inappropriate response. That makes it seem like this is not just fringe behavior from immature students, it makes it seem that many on the left agree with this kind of ignorant performative offense-taking.
No, there won’t be.
Actually, there have always been those issues. However, the students in middle school back then just happened to be far less fragile than the ‘adults’ of today.
I guess it will bring new meaning to the expression from Seinfeld “not that there’s anything wrong with ‘that’”
Please prove a study or cite that backs this claim. Please don’t bother with anecdotal nutpicking.
I’m not providing anything. Use your eyes and you can see how fragile modern adults are.
Agreed! Conservative snowflakes are constantly whining about bullshit and refusing to go to any effort to explain why.
It sounds like you’re coming perilously close to advocating that because actual racism goes unpunished all the time, we shouldn’t scrutinize ignorant false allegations of racism too much, because punishing a few innocent people makes up for the many guilty people who get away with it. Do you really think that prevaricating over calling out these students for this ignorant immature nonsense is helpful in the cause of fighting actual racism that causes actual harm? To the contrary, I think it’s actively harmful to the objective of fighting racism to tolerate such nonsense, because unless such ridiculous cases are roundly condemned by those on the left it makes us look like idiots and risks alienating public opinion altogether.
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I’ve been waiting to see if there was some sort of back story to this. It is just about what I expected though. This is just a game, a weird game that makes idiots out of all the participants. The reaction to the incident is itself the problem.
I’ll save the entire rant and stick to the basic points to remember - these are college students, professors, and administrators. They are all dumb as rocks. Don’t “Stay in school” until you “Learn to think”.
All those “bad words” come from Latin:
Nonne fuit satius tristis Amaryllidis iras
Atque superba pati fastidia, nonne Menalcan,
Quam vis ille niger, quamvis tu candidus esses ?
O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori !
Alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur.
I guess that classical poetry is still OK, though. The students who can read Latin or Ugaritic or (classical) Chinese or Sanskrit are probably not the ones who will see you done in for sexual harassment or racism for mentioning Catullus.
This whole incident is also a consequence of hair-trigger culture, a shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality. Professor says something that sounds like N-word? Rush to jump to judgement, rather than thinking - maybe, in the context, he said something totally innocuous?