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
a friend mentioned one of the ISU posters that was put up. haven't seen any of the ones that had much text, but the one I did see looked like a bad art project and less like a call to arms for racists, but I am guessing... just really dumb racists
― mh 😏, Saturday, 29 October 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
With In Full Color, Rachael Doležal describes the path that led her from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black. Along the way, she’ll discuss the deep emotional bond she formed with her four adopted black siblings, the sense of belonging she felt while living in black communities in Jackson, Mississippi and Washington, D.C., and the discrimination she’s suffered while living as a black woman.Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light—not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experiences we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose.
Her story is nuanced and complex, and in the process of telling it, she forces us to consider race in an entirely new light—not as a biological imperative, but as a function of the experiences we have, the culture we embrace, and, ultimately, the identity we choose.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qiMHtdZiL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 29 October 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
i read ilx with colours inverted on my phone at night and i think its never provided better context
― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 October 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan fuck Dolezal str8 up
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 30 October 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
A former sports reporter and columnist for Jackson Hole News, Storms Reback writes and plays professional poker in Austin, Texas
― mh 😏, Sunday, 30 October 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/10/31/a-black-autistic-teen-got-lost-running-a-5k-then-assaulted-by-a-man-who-feared-getting-mugged/
― 龜, Monday, 31 October 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 29, 2016 10:17 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it thinks i am gen x - I'm millennial - and that I'm into both the scottish labour and conservative parties - i'm a scottish nationalist - but at least it knows i'm an emigrant (though it uses the vile terms expat).
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 31 October 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
Facebook thinks I'm a millenial mezzo-soprano
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
close enough
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 October 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
yeah I was basically like *shrugs, sings some When Saints Go Machine falsetto stuff*
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theroot.com/blog/the-grapevine/gentrigreens-neiman-marcus-is-selling-66-collard-greens/
I am dying
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
incredible
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
my father-in-law sent me the link to that and I think he basically stunned the entire family with the sheer chutzpah of charging that much money for collard greens
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
lol @ the dialogue at the end
― goole, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
every time I think I've recovered from this, I think "$66 + $15 shipping" and the giggles come back
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Go on, tell me why it's called Needless Markups again?
― jane burkini (suzy), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link