connieb
Senator
In this morning's installment of "As the Wahmbulance Turns", I bring you this case.
Apparently, to a course for Graduate Students - who will be teachers, on the topic of racism and how to deal with racism on campus - it is now completely impossible to even utter the "n word". So badly that if you do - you completely "devastate" grown adults and make them feel like they will not have a "safe environment".
There are so many ways to describe what is happening in Academia these days....Um.. lets see.. hoisted by your own petard, taste of your own medicine.... It used to be you know that the college environement would challenge you. It would be tough. You may feel defeated, overwhelmed - you may even fail. You may feel like you are dumb. That you can't compete or keep up. It was supposed to separate the wheat from the chaffe, now it has become an extension of our uber-coddling culture. where groan adults can't get over their own sensitivities.
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Apparently, to a course for Graduate Students - who will be teachers, on the topic of racism and how to deal with racism on campus - it is now completely impossible to even utter the "n word". So badly that if you do - you completely "devastate" grown adults and make them feel like they will not have a "safe environment".
There are so many ways to describe what is happening in Academia these days....Um.. lets see.. hoisted by your own petard, taste of your own medicine.... It used to be you know that the college environement would challenge you. It would be tough. You may feel defeated, overwhelmed - you may even fail. You may feel like you are dumb. That you can't compete or keep up. It was supposed to separate the wheat from the chaffe, now it has become an extension of our uber-coddling culture. where groan adults can't get over their own sensitivities.
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