http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?tid=sm_tw
stoel frmo HOOS tweeter cmon buddy jump on in to the creepy liberalism thred we luv u
― j., Thursday, 16 July 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
i can't deal tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 19 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
it is true our luv is a difficult one
― j., Sunday, 19 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
<3
― drash, Sunday, 19 July 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192439/dont-forget-to-laugh
HITLER NO JOKE
― j., Friday, 24 July 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
the part where it switches over to defending Dunham, Schumer etc is p gross
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/60536-tyler-the-creator-says-hes-been-banned-from-australia/
― j., Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/everything-is-problematic-university-explains.html
Preferred: people of advanced age, old people* Problematic/Outdated: older people, elders, seniors, senior citizen *Old people has been reclaimed by some older activists who believe the standard wording of old people lacks the stigma of the term “advanced age”. Old people also halts the euphemizing of age. Euphemizing automatically positions age as a negative. Preferred: person living at or below the poverty line, people experiencing poverty Problematic/Outdated: poor person, poverty-stricken person Preferred: person of material wealth Problematic: rich Being rich gets conflated with a sort of omnipotence; hence, immunity from customs and the law. People without material wealth could be wealthy or rich of spirit, kindness, etc. Preferred: people of size Problematic/Outdated: obese*, overweight people Preferred: person who is blind/visually impaired Problematic: blind person, “dumb” Preferred: U.S. citizen or Resident of the U.S. Problematic: American Preferred: White people, European-American individuals Problematic: Caucasian people Preferred: Folks, People, You All, Y’all Problematic/Outdated: Guys (when referring to people overall) Preferred: Other Sex Problematic/Outdated: Opposite Sex Preferred: Children who are gender non-conforming, Children who are gender variant Problematic/Outdated: Girlie or Tomboy
Problematic/Outdated: older people, elders, seniors, senior citizen
*Old people has been reclaimed by some older activists who believe the standard wording of old people lacks the stigma of the term “advanced age”. Old people also halts the euphemizing of age. Euphemizing automatically positions age as a negative.
Preferred: person living at or below the poverty line, people experiencing poverty
Problematic/Outdated: poor person, poverty-stricken person
Preferred: person of material wealth
Problematic: rich
Being rich gets conflated with a sort of omnipotence; hence, immunity from customs and the law. People without material wealth could be wealthy or rich of spirit, kindness, etc.
Preferred: people of size
Problematic/Outdated: obese*, overweight people
Preferred: person who is blind/visually impaired
Problematic: blind person, “dumb”
Preferred: U.S. citizen or Resident of the U.S.
Problematic: American
Preferred: White people, European-American individuals
Problematic: Caucasian people
Preferred: Folks, People, You All, Y’all
Problematic/Outdated: Guys (when referring to people overall)
Preferred: Other Sex
Problematic/Outdated: Opposite Sex
Preferred: Children who are gender non-conforming, Children who are gender variant
Problematic/Outdated: Girlie or Tomboy
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
problematic: one wordpreferred: a shitload of words
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
Problematic: drawing your attention to a quality potentially seen as undesirablePreferred: calling extra attention to how anxious the speaker feels about the quality
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
a lot of these language changes seem like a shell game to try and replace words w/ negative connotations (generally bc what they describe is something ppl associate w/ something negative, not bc the word itself is problematic) w/ more awkward phrasing bc it doesn't have any negative associations yet. maybe if it's awkward enough and no one agrees to use it, it can always stay value neutral.
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
person of sizeable money
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is mostly just shifting negative connotations around to new/different terminology
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
it's the awkward phrasing/extra words that makes these so ridiculous, language follows the path of least resistance
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
Problematic: University dept gets paid based on the amount of policy you write.Preferred: NY Mag writer forgot to do latest piece. Wants to turn in screenshot of a website to cover ass.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
hmm, i was wondering why chait's link seemed to be dead
http://www.wmur.com/news/unh-president-offended-by-biasfree-language-guide/34421812
seems the guide was old, recently TRENDED by conservative media, and once it was the university president bus-threw it bc problematic
― j., Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
State Sen. Jeb Bradley, a Republican from Wolfeboro, said he was outraged by the guide and would remember it when lawmakers next consider how much money to provide to the university.
That seems fair, to punish a handful of overly sensitive policy writers by denying money to a state university. /s
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
i thought "dumb" meant mute, not blind?
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/VOKAwGv.jpg
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
that mom looks like paulie's mom from the sopranos
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/thats-not-funny/399335/
caitlin flanagan visits the annual National Association for Campus Activities convention
The colleges represented were—to use a word that their emissaries regard as numinous—diverse: huge research universities, tiny liberal-arts colleges, Catholic schools, land-grant institutions. But the students’ taste in entertainment was uniform. They liked their slam poets to deliver the goods in tones of the highest seriousness and on subjects of lunar bleakness; they favored musicians who could turn out covers with cheerful precision; and they wanted comedy that was 100 percent risk-free, comedy that could not trigger or upset or mildly trouble a single student. They wanted comedy so thoroughly scrubbed of barb and aggression that if the most hypersensitive weirdo on campus mistakenly wandered into a performance, the words he would hear would fall on him like a soft rain, producing a gentle chuckle and encouraging him to toddle back to his dorm, tuck himself in, and commence a dreamless sleep—not text Mom and Dad that some monster had upset him with a joke.
― j., Friday, 7 August 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
'blind person' is problematic, but not 'person who is blind'? this makes zero sense. all the second one does is add unnecessary words, while the meaningful words remain unchanged.
― Aimless, Friday, 7 August 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
That's overwrought writin'.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
in that excerpt
there's some more
gotta justify the junket
― j., Friday, 7 August 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.uillinois.edu/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=278006
document dump from the salaita affair
― j., Saturday, 8 August 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
"This place is so messed up."
otm
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
also those campus activity conventions have been lame since the 90s. I went to one as an undergrad when I was involved in that world. by contrast when we actually hosted events on campus things were less hung up (iirc the unofficial rider of the Village People was to score them coke, which was not a problem). good times, great oldies.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2015 07:49 (eight years ago) link
lol up to like at least halfway through the emails they're all just calling salaita 'this guy'
― j., Saturday, 8 August 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
guess you saw that the chancellor resigned? joy in mudville today
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
yeah but what l31t3r said seems plausible - she had to go, probably was scheduled to go.
actually what i found most aggravating was the condescension about the unionization efforts among faculty - i assume the chancellor was not the only faculty member among that group of emailers, either.
― j., Saturday, 8 August 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah there were other faculty against the union in those mails, and they're the only faculty the chancellor "consulted" re SS
I don't read the blog you mentioned anymore and his inside contacts are tainted fwiw
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
like his butt
― j., Saturday, 8 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 8 August 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
A young gay man with a Broadway background named Kevin Yee sang novelty songs about his life, producing a delirium of affection from the audience. “We love you, Kevin!” a group of kids yelled between numbers. He invited students to the front of the auditorium for a “gay dance party,” and they charged down to take part. His last song, about the close relationship that can develop between a gay man and his “sassy black friend,” was a killer closer; the kids roared in delight, and several African American young women in the crowd seemed to be self-identifying as sassy black friends. I assumed Yee would soon be barnstorming the country. But afterward, two white students from an Iowa college shook their heads: no. He was “perpetuating stereotypes,” one of them said, firmly. “We’re a very forward-thinking school,” she told me. “That thing about the ‘sassy black friend’? That wouldn’t work for us.”
i saw this guy in honolulu the other day (on a bill also including a short movie a friend was in, and as it happens that "if a robbery report were treated like a rape report" video) and "delirium of affection" is about right but i was mortified to the point of flight-impulse by the sassy black friend song and got a miffed look for my unenthusiasm so apparently i am part of caitlin flanagan's problem
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”
lol
long article by social psychologist jonathan haidt and some dude from FIRE
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
The only thing I know about FIRE is that right-wing people keep referring me to it to prove something about PC culture or whatever.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah i don't know anything about it, just the name makes me apprehensive - and i don't exactly trust haidt to pick appropriate collaborators
still, hella scholarlyish
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Thank god, we have so many colleges and universities like Oral Roberts University, which are run by right-thinking conservative evangelicals to compete with all these effete mind-coddling colleges and universities, so we are all safe and the problems cited above are trivial. After all, the free market is always right, and a healthy competition will solve the problem effortlessly via the Invisible Hand without our having to lift a finger.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_in_Education
― goole, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
boring article but I lolled when they got butthurt about Condi Rice being uninvited to campus events
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
well right i know THAT
weird board of advisors
one of the things i hate most about politics is groups that make all kinds of representations that seem obfuscatory of their exact position when you just wanna know like, cmon are you a friend or foe
(this is why i am not made for anything political)
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Aimless otm.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
in politics assume foe
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
why should i assume anything you say
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
ass out of you and me iirc
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
like out of requiem for a dream huh? but i don't even know you!!!
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
when you just wanna know like, cmon are you a friend or foe
valid, but tbh i'm wary & weary of only seeing things though this lens
― drash, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
fair and balanced
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/faculty-union-wins-new-protection-from-student-abuse-after-yik-yak-incident/103067
― j., Thursday, 13 August 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link