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Title: Prof corrects minority students’ capitalization, is accused of racism
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The Daily Caller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/26/p ... cused-of-racism/#ixzz2rCotbKuB
Published: Nov 26, 2013
Author: Robby Soave
Post Date: 2014-01-24 14:27:06 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 228
Comments: 12
Racial tensions are inflamed at the University of California at Los Angeles following several incidents — most notably, one where a professor corrected the grammar, punctuation and capitalization in minority students’ assignments. The act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression,” according to the members of the student group “Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color,” which launched a sit-in during a subsequent meeting of the class. “A hostile campus climate has been the norm for Students of Color in this class throughout the quarter as our epistemological and methodological commitments have been repeatedly questioned by our classmates and our instructor,” wrote the group in a statement to the college. “[The] barrage of questions by white colleagues and the grammar ‘lessons’ by the professor have contributed to a hostile class climate.” Some 25 students participated in the sit-in, including five of the 10 members of the class. Val Rust, a professor of education and information, was the official target of the sit-in, though the aggrieved minority students had problems with UCLA’s handling of racial issues that went far beyond just one classroom, according to Inside Higher Ed. Rust is guest-lecturing in China this week, and did not respond to a request for comment. He sent a letter to his colleagues in the education department, however, in which he clarified that he meant no offense to minorities. “I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don’t feel that is appropriate,” he said in a statement, according to The Daily Bruin. Some of the corrections were clarified by sit-in organizer Kenjus Watson. Rust told one student that she should not capitalize the word “indigenous” in her papers. This correction was ideologically-motivated, according to Watson. Rust admitted that he likely made matters worse by not aggressively and proactively taking the side of a minority student who was engaged in an argument with a white female student. The minority student told the woman that she had no right to feel oppressed, and Rust did not express agreement either way. “Two weeks ago a Student of Color and a white female student got into a big discussion,” said Rust. “She wants to use Standpoint Theory [a method of analysis coined by feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, based on the idea that all knowledge is subjective and based on one's position in society] in her dissertation, and the Student of Color told her she had no business claiming that she was a member of an oppressed group.” “She came back saying there are all kinds of oppression. I likely did not handle the situation well, because I chose not to stop the discussion between them, so it went on for quite a while, and the Students of Color apparently interpreted my silence to mean I wasn’t supporting them.” Poster Comment: Campus commies 'n crackpots.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Yep. And CA. taxpayers are footing the bill so these idiots, with intellects of gnats, can attend college. And furthermore these idiots who would rather protest than actually learn something are possibly/likely taking spots that should have been given to more academically meritorious students. Sandra Day O'Connor f***ked America over with her majority vote on Affirmative Action being a so-called "benefit" to society.
I think they should be graduated, regardless of academic success, and then allowed to apply to positions within the Fortune 500 companies. A certain number would have to be hired simply to fulfill quotas and once embedded in the corporate culture, they will eventually take it down due to their rank ignorance. In the end we get a twofer; the destruction of corporate America and the exposure of liberalism.
Lololol!!! Diploma's for everybody!!!
#2. To: X-15, Scrap, 4 (#0)
The act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression,” according to the members of the student group “Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color,” which launched a sit-in during a subsequent meeting of the class.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: Jethro Tull, X-15, 4um (#2)
The professor better be careful or Herr Holder might charge him with trumped up "hate speech" charges.
#5. To: scrapper2, Jethro Tull, 4um (#4)
Sentenced to a FEMA-camp for grading sentences :) Holder might charge him with trumped up "hate speech" charges.
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
And for being a "coward" in not grovelling and apologizing enough to the gnat-brain black student for the white student's highly intellectual viewpoint in her dissertation ( that gnat-brain could not understand due to her all consuming race focus). From the article: snip "... Rust admitted that he likely made matters worse by not aggressively and proactively taking the side of a minority student who was engaged in an argument with a white female student. The minority student told the woman that she had no right to feel oppressed, and Rust did not express agreement either way. “Two weeks ago a Student of Color and a white female student got into a big discussion,” said Rust. “She wants to use Standpoint Theory [a method of analysis coined by feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, based on the idea that all knowledge is subjective and based on one's position in society] in her dissertation, and the Student of Color told her she had no business claiming that she was a member of an oppressed group.” “She came back saying there are all kinds of oppression. I likely did not handle the situation well, because I chose not to stop the discussion between them, so it went on for quite a while, and the Students of Color apparently interpreted my silence to mean I wasn’t supporting them.” Sentenced to a FEMA-camp for grading sentences :)
#7. To: X-15 (#0)
These are grad students in an easy program. I say we give them a test in basic math and English flunking out all the retarded ones. Otherwise they will soon be teaching schools.
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#8. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
I like the way you think. In the end we get a twofer; the destruction of corporate America and the exposure of liberalism.
Republicans prefer white genocide to paying taxes or paying more for strawberries.
Democrats prefer white genocide to seeing anyone get ahead.
As the party of principle, Libertarians support white genocide because they oppose zoning.
#9. To: X-15 (#0)
Higher education being dumbed down by the state. Soon all "minorities except whites" will qualify to apply at med schools.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
Just like in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It's coming and the sheeple STILL can't see what's headed towards them.
-Alex Kurtagic
#11. To: scrapper2 (#1)
Got that right. Too bad Sandra Day O'Connor was a sellout just like most of the people who get elevated to the highest positions in the Cult of the Black Robe. Sandra Day O'Connor f***ked America over with her majority vote on Affirmative Action being a so-called "benefit" to society.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: X-15 (#0)
It is a sick mental diseased fuck, that trys to tell people what feeling they have a right to feel and what feelings they do not have a right to feel. Especially a woman MY MOTHER WORKED HER LIFE ON THE BARGES OF THE MISSISSIPPI! You think She got paid right? You think the other men didn't give her endless shit. Then as a women will, She raised her children, her extended family , worked in a mans world and got little to no thanks for it. So I say yes, Yes any and all women Totally have the right to feel oppressed. In 2007 My mother was still being discriminated against. I have no clue no understanding of the reasoning or justification to pay women less than men... I don't get it. Someone does the job, Pay them. I don't know.... BUT one thing I do know is that My mother, and any and every woman on planet earth as the right to feel whatever feeling they want and that NOBODY has the right to regulate other peoples feelings.
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