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RE: UWisc to promote grades based on race
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Quote:Val Rust, a professor of education and information, was the target of the protestors for what they feel was racial insensitivity. Describing themselves as “aggrieved minority students,” they claim that the professor was wrong to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar in the papers of black students.

Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color, the group which launched the sit-in, said the act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression.” But it’s much worse than you think. The group issued the following statement:

“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. The barrage of questions by white colleagues and the grammar ‘lessons’ by the professor have contributed to a hostile class climate.”

Did you get that? Trying to hold black students to a college level of proper writing skill is a hostile act of racism. And you know they are serious; just look at all those big words they used in their statement.



For all the hype and grandstanding over their professor’s “crime” the only example the protesters could put forth was this: he told a black female student that the word “indigenous” should not be capitalized. The student felt this correction was “ideologically motivated.” Indigenous is an adjective and should not be capitalized unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence like the way I just used it. I learned that in grade school.

For his part, Rust has claimed that he meant no offense to minorities, stating, “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.”

What a monster. He’s like Hitler and the KKK rolled into one inhuman racist entity.

The professor also thinks that the protest is at least partially motivated because he allowed a discussion/argument to take place in his class between a white student and a black student. The black student told the white woman that she had no right to feel oppressed, and Rust did not express agreement either way. Will this man’s crimes never cease?
07-31-2014 01:25 PM
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RE: UWisc to promote grades based on race
(07-31-2014 01:25 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://downtrend.com/71superb/professor-...nctuation/

Quote:For all the hype and grandstanding over their professor’s “crime” the only example the protesters could put forth was this: he told a black female student that the word “indigenous” should not be capitalized. The student felt this correction was “ideologically motivated.” Indigenous is an adjective and should not be capitalized unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence like the way I just used it. I learned that in grade school.

While I don't think the professor was wrong to correct her (and certainly not micro-aggressive or "criminal"), I do appreciate the way our founders could be more creative with their capitalizations, grade-school teachers be damned. And half of the rules they taught us were wrong anyways.
07-31-2014 02:46 PM
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RE: UWisc to promote grades based on race
(07-31-2014 01:25 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://downtrend.com/71superb/professor-...nctuation/

Quote:Val Rust, a professor of education and information, was the target of the protestors for what they feel was racial insensitivity. Describing themselves as “aggrieved minority students,” they claim that the professor was wrong to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar in the papers of black students.

Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color, the group which launched the sit-in, said the act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression.” But it’s much worse than you think. The group issued the following statement:

“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. The barrage of questions by white colleagues and the grammar ‘lessons’ by the professor have contributed to a hostile class climate.”

Did you get that? Trying to hold black students to a college level of proper writing skill is a hostile act of racism. And you know they are serious; just look at all those big words they used in their statement.



For all the hype and grandstanding over their professor’s “crime” the only example the protesters could put forth was this: he told a black female student that the word “indigenous” should not be capitalized. The student felt this correction was “ideologically motivated.” Indigenous is an adjective and should not be capitalized unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence like the way I just used it. I learned that in grade school.

For his part, Rust has claimed that he meant no offense to minorities, stating, “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.”

What a monster. He’s like Hitler and the KKK rolled into one inhuman racist entity.

The professor also thinks that the protest is at least partially motivated because he allowed a discussion/argument to take place in his class between a white student and a black student. The black student told the white woman that she had no right to feel oppressed, and Rust did not express agreement either way. Will this man’s crimes never cease?

People are being taught to use racism as a tool in order to overcome their failings and get what they want and it's only going to get worse.
07-31-2014 08:35 PM
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RE: UWisc to promote grades based on race
(07-31-2014 09:37 AM)VA49er Wrote:  I'll be heading up to UW-Madison on Sunday. At least beer is good.

Go to the Great Dane Brewery downtown. You will enjoy it.
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RE: UWisc to promote grades based on race
How is that any different than its always been.

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