thought this piece by riz ahmed on racial profiling & typecasting was great & darkly funny
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/riz-ahmed-typecast-as-a-terrorist
― ogmor, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
I was trying to determine which thread to post that on and ended up forgetting entirely.
I hope he has a follow-up in another year after he's played a... freedom fighter... in a Star Wars film.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
The new Swetshop Boys single, T5, is about the same thing. The album should hopefully be better than Heems' solo one.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mirajacob/questions-from-my-mixed-race-son?utm_term=.yxEVMpwX8#.tgNE5LPw0
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
okay I loved that and I didn't expect to
kids rule
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
awwww
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's great
― ogmor, Thursday, 29 September 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
last few articles linked from this thread were all excellent
― Tell me who sends these infamous .gifs (bernard snowy), Thursday, 29 September 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
omg
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/article106145867.html
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
tbf, she did use to read WORD UP magazine
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
The theme of the annual celebration, which will run Jan. 14 to 16, is “Healing Race Relations through Conversation and Participation.” Attendees will be able to delve into this theme through a variety of events, including an International Diversity Summit at the Cary Arts Center, featuring panel discussions with community and religious leaders.
Participation.
― goole, Thursday, 6 October 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
Donald Trump has made it safe for flight crews to be really, really racist again.
http://distractify.com/trending/2016/10/12/racist-flight-crew
http://io9.gizmodo.com/united-airlines-kicks-passenger-off-because-of-marvel-s-1787717851
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
From Donald Glover's Atlanta series on FX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKSGJcYwMM
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
wow
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html
I kind of glossed over this story until I realized:
a) this dude was the son of the guy who started St*rmfr*nt; andb) one of his medieval history professors is a woman I sang with in college
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm beginning to think DJP's college singing experience was spent mostly in Polyphonic Spree.
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
lol well I sang in two separate 60-person choirs so... kinda
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Incredible story.
Off-topic, this: "X is a person I sang with in college" must be my favourite vmic-post on ilx :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/25/white-high-schoolers-in-mississippi-put-a-noose-around-a-black-students-neck-and-yanked-naacp-says/
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
and the comments are a horrorshow
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
On the lighter side (pun intended):
https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/791745979875753987
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E02/515664.jpg
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
@rembertcoat switching is white jason waterfalls
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
https://vivatiffany.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/academia-love-me-back/
http://i.imgur.com/ggV5yYx.png
do we have a race and academia thread?
― 龜, Friday, 28 October 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
This makes me furious.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
yeah... it sucks. usually when we encounter this sort of thing it's more subtle and undocumented.
― Nhex, Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
xp to DJP. As well it might. It's infuriating.
The only explanation (not an excuse!) is that over a period of decades many professors' minds slowly congeal into an oleaginous mass of unmerited assumptions regarding their own superiority over their students, who they reflexively dismiss as callow, ill-educated, irritating and foolish. This prof needs to be publically humiliated in the worst possible way.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
it's horrible and idk how anyone could defend iti do not believe in public humiliation though
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 October 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
i believe in humiliating public humiliators
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
you're latino so you can't use the word hence?
The only good that could come of this shameful event would be for the professor involved to feel such a strong sense of remorse that he would never again unthinkingly repeat it.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
she
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
sorry. she.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Devil's advocate: it is possible that this prof found failures to provide appropriate attribution?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
that wouldn't justify this behaviour
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
ah true I missed the in-front-of-class accusation on first read
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
what kind of idiot professor thinks "hence" is such an exotic word that surely it must be plagiarized. "hence" is such an undergrad word. what a dumbass.
― Mordy, Friday, 28 October 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
anything is possiblei deal with stuff like this all the time and any professor who circles one word and writes that it's not someone's word is an unprofessional asshole -- i teach my students about academic vocab and assure them that these are their words to use. then calling it out in front of the rest of the class? also horrible asshole behavior. i do not think that escalating the cycle of public shaming is going to yield any valuable lessons taught though. it just yields and spreads more shame and anger.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Went back to reread the blog post. The author is scrupulous about not revealing the gender of the professor and the only pronoun I saw used was "they". Otherwise, it is "professor", "person" or similarly gender-neutral terms. Which is to her credit.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 28 October 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
LL i'm not sure what your objection is, the student doesn't name the professor anywhere in the post. and it's the professor who humiliated her in front of the class...
obviously both the written comment (assuming, as quincie points out, that there was not failure to cite a source) and calling her out in front of the class are awful. that said some of the commenters on her blog are encouraging her to take the issue up with the dean, department head, etc, which sounds like...a bad idea
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 October 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
I am not objecting to her statement of her experience. That is hers to express and I support her right to share her experience because it does indeed need to be shared if so many people think that this is a rare experience. It's not, unfortunately.
I am objecting to perpetuating the cycle by publicly shaming the professor in retaliation. It was suggested that this was an adequate solution and I don't believe that it is. Taking it to the chair and the dean makes a lot more sense, and this has been done many times where I work. It's not uncommon. (I am not interested in getting into detail about my job here, please -- I hope by now ILX trusts that I have my heart in the right place)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
oh i see that you were responding to aimless's post. i agree that public humiliation would probably not be useful
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 October 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
Going to the dean/department head absolutely makes sense unless this professor IS the department head (in which case I'd go to the dean).
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
she has reason to be upset but i'd be wary of going that route, particularly for an aspiring academic who is going to need letters of recommendation for grad school. it seems like it could easily backfire
confronting the professor directly would probably be the best option though i realize it's a lot easier for me to say that than for her to do it
― k3vin k., Friday, 28 October 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
she already has a situation where a professor has labeled her a plagiarist in front of an entire class; how many recommendations do you think she's going to be getting out of this department if she just meekly accepts this and talks to no one else?
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
http://www.kcci.com/article/police-investigating-white-heritage-posters-at-isu/7664984
At this point, officials say this is a policy violation, and they want to talk to whoever hung up the signs to find out their intent.
I will give you three guesses, officials, and the first two don't count.
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Saturday, 29 October 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Wanna see how Facebook's advertising department views you? If you go to https://m.facebook.com/ads/preferences/categories/ and click on "Lifestyle and Culture," you can see your "Ethnic Affinity" - not necessarily who they think you are, but what kind of products and services they think you might be interested in. Mine is "African-American," probably because I post about jazz a lot.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 29 October 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
interestingly as a UK citizen i don't appear to have an "Ethnic Affinity" tag, presumably because we're such a big chill melting-pot
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 October 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Yeah me neither - they do have me down as a millennial and late technology adopter tho
― did we ever get wizz sorted (wins), Saturday, 29 October 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
i am down as Generation X and Fat Maudlin Twat
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link