PC Police: A New Low

[FreshFish]

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I also like how you implicitly exclude Fox News from the mainstream media...

Exactly. Since all conservatives are outliers, right?

[FreshFish]

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This sounds like something out of The Onion, but incredibly it is real life brainwashing at its worst.

Oberlin College earlier this year proposed that its teachers "be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression."

w.t.f are "cissexism" and "ableism"??

The writer of the quoted sentence is obviously totally oblivious to its inherent irony: that guidance sounds far more oppressive than any of the "-isms" cited!

[St. Clown]

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This sounds like something out of The Onion, but incredibly it is real life brainwashing at its worst.

w.t.f are "cissexism" and "ableism"??

The writer of the quoted sentence is obviously totally oblivious to its inherent irony: that guidance sounds far more oppressive than any of the "-isms" cited!

I had to look up the cissexism. Ableism is discrimination against the gimps.

The related term cissexism, which is sometimes used as a synonym of transphobia, refers to the assumptions that due to human sexual differentiation one's gender as either a man or a woman is determined solely by a "biological" sex of male or female respectively, and that trans people are inferior to cis people. Whether intentional or not, both transphobia and cissexism have severe consequences for the target of the negative attitude. Many trans people also experience homophobia and heterosexism from people who associate their gender identity with homosexuality, or because they also have a non-heterosexual sexual orientation. Attacking someone on the basis of a perception of their gender identity rather than a perception of their sexual orientation is known as "trans bashing", as opposed to "gay bashing". Homophobia and transphobia are correlated.[

[FreshFish]

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I had to look up the cissexism. Ableism is discrimination against the gimps.

I am feeling more and more that the most insidious discrimination we all face is that people who think independently are the most oppressed of all. We are all supposed to genuflect and shout Hosannah! and follow the party line without question or else we are evil.

[St. Clown]

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I am feeling more and more that the most insidious discrimination we all face is that people who think independently are the most oppressed of all. We are all supposed to genuflect and shout Hosannah! and follow the party line without question or else we are evil.

I won't be shouting Hosannah anytime soon. I have no idea what it even means. And these pressures have been put in place upon society ever since societies began. Witch trials, excommunications, and many other versions that don't come to mind immediately. This group-think mentality is nothing new except now it's moved from the ignorant to the supposed intellectuals, which I find to be really scary.

[dxmnkd316]

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Subscribed because I think my computer has a virus and I... oh wait, not that kind of PC

[FreshFish]

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I was thinking a little more about that quote from Oberlin College about "issues of privilege and oppression."

A college talking about "issues of privilege" totally oblivious to the irony involved? who'd a thunk it?

I suppose that they are unaware that they discriminate against stupid people? don't they typically require a minimum SAT score, a minimum GPA, and an essay from applicants before they can be admitted? Don't they grade their students?

I remember a story about a college professor who told all the A students in his class that he was lowering their grades to a B so that he could thereby raise the grades of all the C students to a B as well. You can imagine how well that went over!

What I find most annoying about hypocrites is when they cannot even recognize their own hypocrisy.



PS. Is it now unacceptable to call people of below-median intelligence "stupid"? what is now the proper phrase? "BMI" already stands for Body Mass Index, so we can't use that....

[unofan]

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I remember a story about a college professor who told all the A students in his class that he was lowering their grades to a B so that he could thereby raise the grades of all the C students to a B as well. You can imagine how well that went over!

I remember that urban legend too. I guffawed and then rolleyed my eyes at my Godfather for forwarding yet another chain e-mail.

The sad part is you probably think it really happened.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I suppose that they are unaware that they discriminate against stupid people? don't they typically require a minimum SAT score, a minimum GPA, and an essay from applicants before they can be admitted? Don't they grade their students?

That isn't unfair discrimination, that's making sure you have the basic educational background necessary to succeed in the college classroom. By your logic, employers who require candidates for an open position to have a bachelor's degree and/or 10 years of experience are also "discriminating".

Until you're 18, your parents have a responsibility to properly educate and prepare you to contribute to society. Once you turn 18, that responsibility becomes yours. However, you don't have a choice regarding the color of your skin, any disabilities, sexual orientation, etc.

[dxmnkd316]

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I remember that urban legend too. I guffawed and then rolleyed my eyes at my Godfather for forwarding yet another chain e-mail.

The sad part is you probably think it really happened.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp

Ouch... Something's rotten around here.

[SJHovey]

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Did anyone actually read about the Oberlin College policy?

What the story was about, but what the link that was given to us didn't explain, is that a committee or group at Oberlin College basically proposed a policy for professors dealing with "trigger warnings." I guess a trigger warning is where the college professor warns you that you are about read about racial issues before he assigns To Kill A Mockingbird as part of his literature class. This is to give a "heads up" to students who might be traumatized by reading about racial discrimination.

I think the example I read was one professor who showed the move The Accused in his class, and someone who was recently raped was traumatized by that. (It does beg the question, what the heck are they doing watching the movie The Accused in a college class, unless I suppose it was some sort of film study class.)

I don't really think the Oberlin College situation (which is now under review and has not yet been implemented) in necessarily political correctness reaching new lows. It certainly seems like unnecessary levels of paternalism, imho, but I suppose that could be debated.

[joecct]

That isn't unfair discrimination, that's making sure you have the basic educational background necessary to succeed in the college classroom. By your logic, employers who require candidates for an open position to have a bachelor's degree and/or 10 years of experience are also "discriminating".

Until you're 18, your parents have a responsibility to properly educate and prepare you to contribute to society. Once you turn 18, that responsibility becomes yours. However, you don't have a choice regarding the color of your skin, any disabilities, sexual orientation, etc.

Beg to differ just a bit. I am responsible for the grade on the paper, not the parents. I don't care if I'm 5 or 55 it's my work, not the work of others.

As to disability - maybe. If I'm in a wheelchair as a result of wrapping my car around a tree, that's on me. If I'm in a wheelchair because of polio, no.

[FreshFish]

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Did someone change the definition of "diversity" lately?

I was reading about the Little League team from Chicago that won the US Little League world series, and it was touted as a "triumph of diversity." The team is 100% black.

[FreshFish]

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When I read some of the news stories coming out of college campuses these days, I wonder which ones are real and which ones are satire....except none of them seem to be satire, despite how they sound....

Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of “cultural appropriation.”



The centre goes on to say, “Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from.”

The centre official argues since many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy . . . we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”

[aparch]

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When I read some of the news stories coming out of college campuses these days, I wonder which ones are real and which ones are satire....except none of them seem to be satire, despite how they sound....

Just because the yoga mats were facing East doesn't mean...