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Post by JDaveG on Feb 2, 2015 21:38:46 GMT
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html"Indeed, one professor at a prestigious university told me that, just in the last few years, she has noticed a dramatic upsurge in her students’ sensitivity toward even the mildest social or ideological slights; she and her fellow faculty members are terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma — or, more consequentially, violating her school’s new sexual-harassment policy — merely by carrying out the traditional academic work of intellectual exploration. “This is an environment of fear, believe it or not,” she told me by way of explaining her request for anonymity. It reminds her of the previous outbreak of political correctness — “Every other day I say to my friends, ‘How did we get back to 1991?’ ”
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Post by JDaveG on Feb 2, 2015 21:41:50 GMT
"But it would be a mistake to categorize today’s p.c. culture as only an academic phenomenon. Political correctness is a style of politics in which the more radical members of the left attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate. Two decades ago, the only communities where the left could exert such hegemonic control lay within academia, which gave it an influence on intellectual life far out of proportion to its numeric size. Today’s political correctness flourishes most consequentially on social media, where it enjoys a frisson of cool and vast new cultural reach. And since social media is also now the milieu that hosts most political debate, the new p.c. has attained an influence over mainstream journalism and commentary beyond that of the old.
It also makes money. Every media company knows that stories about race and gender bias draw huge audiences, making identity politics a reliable profit center in a media industry beset by insecurity. A year ago, for instance, a photographer compiled images of Fordham students displaying signs recounting “an instance of racial microaggression they have faced.” The stories ranged from uncomfortable (“No, where are you really from?”) to relatively innocuous (“ ‘Can you read this?’ He showed me a Japanese character on his phone”). BuzzFeed published part of her project, and it has since received more than 2 million views. This is not an anomaly."
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Post by Guvmintcheeze on Feb 2, 2015 22:25:51 GMT
Privileged kids with sticks up their asses and no real axe to grind. They outta let me teach a mandatory class. I'll call it "Time To Grow Up And Worry About Your Own Shit Because Life Just Ain't Always Fucking Fair, Sunshine"
An introduction to how the world really works, and how to cope with it like an adult instead of being a whiny twat.
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Post by Guvmintcheeze on Feb 2, 2015 22:30:05 GMT
And I thought of another mandatory class I'd like to teach. "Why We Can't All Just Get Along"  |
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Post by NewFalcon on Feb 3, 2015 20:46:19 GMT
Unfortunately, there are some things that students should be learning in school, but don't. Not all of them have to do with academics. Here are some basic rules that may not have found their way into the standard curriculum.
(This was originally created by Charles J. Sykes, but I made a couple of changes):
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase, "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $60,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president, have a personal assistant, or have four weeks of vacation each year. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have an Aeropostale, UnderArmour or Nike label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He/she doesn't have tenure, so they tend to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, they're not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to be found sitting around watching 'reality' shows, or talking about Beyonce, Kanye, Kardashians or the "celebu-tard du jour" all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer. (See rule #1)
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results and everyone gets a trophy just for participating. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop/bar/restaurant to go to jobs. Your friends will not be like the Kardashians, and you won't have to choose between Edward and Jacob.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising with your friends, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair, excessive tattoos or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal, no matter how often you post YOLO with your selfie. If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid.
Maybe you should start now.
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Post by Dago on Feb 7, 2015 16:47:27 GMT
Originally my major was Computer Science but after I got Guillain-Barre I found that I had forgotten how to do most higher math. I wasn't willing to go back and start over, so I changed my major to Industrial Technology which was the only major that would accept my comp sci credits as electives.
the Academia at SeLU treated the Industrial Technology department like crap...we were the red headed step children of the university even tho it is one of the top programs in the country and at the time one of 3 universities in the nation with a 4 year OSHA program. It was pretty disgusting to see
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