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General Bogosity => The Podcast => Nominations for Biggest Bogon Emitter and Idiot Extraordinaire => Topic started by: BlameThe1st on November 04, 2017, 06:05:49 PM

Title: BBE/IE: Reedies Against Racism (RAR)
Post by: BlameThe1st on November 04, 2017, 06:05:49 PM
The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country (https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/the-surprising-revolt-at-reed/544682/)

Yet another example of college Social Justice Warriors running amok on campus. This particular story involves several protests at Reed College in Portland, Oregon over the curriculum of its humanities courses, which they claim contain too many white people.

The protests and demands would be bad enough, but what makes it worse is how some of the protests have affected the health of one of the professors:

QuoteOne of the first Hum professors to request that RAR not occupy the classroom was Lucía Martínez Valdivia, who said her preexisting PTSD would make it difficult to face protesters. In an open letter, RAR offered sympathy to Martínez Valdivia but then accused her of being anti-black, discriminating against those with disabilities, and engaging in gaslighting—without specifying those charges. When someone asked for specifics, a RAR leader replied, "Asking for people to display their trauma so that you feel sufficiently satisfied is a form of violence."

But another RAR member did offer a specific via Facebook: "The​ ​appropriation​ ​of​ ​AAVE [African American Vernacular English]​ ​on​ ​her​ ​shirt​ ​during​ ​lecture:​ ​'Poetry​ ​is​ ​lit' ​is​ ​a​ ​form​ ​of​ ​anti-blackness."

During Martínez Valdivia's lecture on Sappho, protesters sat together in the seats wearing all black; they confronted her after class, with at least one of them yelling at the professor about her past trauma, bringing her to tears. "I am intimidated by these students," Martínez Valdivia later wrote, noting she is "scared to teach courses on race, gender, or sexuality, or even texts that bring these issues up in any way—and I am a gay mixed-race woman." Such fear, she revealed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, prompted some of her colleagues— "including people of color, immigrants, and those without tenure"—to avoid lecturing altogether.

Seriously, f*** these people. If you think protesting your petty demands require triggering someone's PTSD, then you are not a decent human being. You are not a warrior for "social justice." You are a garbage human.
Title: Re: BBE/IE: Reedies Against Racism (RAR)
Post by: MrBogosity on November 05, 2017, 01:25:06 PM
Wait, "lit" is supposed to be for blacks only? What about people who've been calling the class "English Lit" all these decades?