Interesting theory. I only read books in bed at night via a screen (backlit kindle) and rattle through a couple of chapters a time, no problem. Can’t remember the last time I made it to the end of a long read in the newspapers, without skimming, during daylight hours.
Has political correctness actually gone mad?
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Interesting theory. I only read books in bed at night via a screen (backlit kindle) and rattle through a couple of chapters a time, no problem. Can’t remember the last time I made it to the end of a long read in the newspapers, without skimming, during daylight hours.
What’s shaking out? 20mins to 2:22 is a bloody big difference.
I know, right? Taking an arm off to hang by one arm, while shaking the other one to get some blood back into it.
You can make the top 13 in the world if you get six minutes plus without shaking out.
Ah, makes sense. Still though, that’s an incredible difference!
Yeah, crazy. Hanging by one arm is tough too. Even if only for a few seconds.
I love that a conversation about short attention spans immediately goes off on a wild tangent.
Sure, but imagine how good our attention spans would be without books. Or wall paintings. And think about how good it would be before we had spoken language to coddle us.
It's definitely true, kinda, but I am pretty sure there's a healthy dose of Socrates complaining about kids these days in it too.
Listen, pal, the highpoint of human achievement was the mid 90s. It’s all gone to shit since those glory days. I won’t hear any different. Fecking kids and their smartphones and their progressive politics. Bah humbug.
Command & Conquer came out in 1995, so I am inclined to agree.
Plus Manchester City and Liverpool were legitimately shit. A simpler, happier time.
I encountered the same thing (slightly repackaged) in another argument about free speech some time ago. Boggles the mind, it does.
You know the answer there mate. Especially here. Kudos for keeping to your opinion against well, everyone. Anyway it's two of us now I guess
.If people of faith are happy to accept homosexuals having the same rights as them, then they can agree to disagree all they like.
Do you think religious people should be tolerant of homosexuals and allow them to live their lives how they wish? Or does their own tolerance only extend to those who think like them?
Haha that's Socrates too. In Phaerdus there's a long speech about how writing is rotting memory and nobody really remembers anything anymore.
Same for me. It's easy for me to read books and remain focused.
There’s a lot right with this post.
https://www.indy100.com/news/georgetown-university-professor-fired-black-racism-b1817024
Is this necessarily racist? She talks about having 'angst' over the situation. It's only being discussed because it's an issue that she doesn't feel comfortable about.
Yeah, it’s racist.
How so?
Because it's a self fulfilling prophecy about a particular race?
You’re negatively defining a group by their race. Just seems an obviously racist comment to me. This doesn’t necessarily mean this woman is a racist, but what she said & how she said it is racist in tone.
It can't be self fulfilling if there are exceptions. And her 'angst' suggests that she wants to do something about it.
So are you opposed to Affirmative Action for the same reason?
That’s a shaky comparison. A lot has to do with intent; AA was intended to help, the angst shown here is not one of wanting to help, she’s definitely not signaling altruism. She’s demeaning them, you can hear a lot of ‘typical’ in her voice.
But that’s just me.
You don’t think her comments had any negative racial overtones to them?
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I'm not saying she is racist, I'm saying it's a racist statement. And I really don't see how exceptions rule out a self fulfilling prophecy!? It's a well covered phenomena:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...me, teachers,lead to higher achievement gains.
I think it's the sort of statement even people dedicated to fighting racism might make without having thought about it (not saying she is, I know nothing about her).
That's horrific on a number of levels. Even ignoring the language itself (no one surely can defend ‘the blacks’ used like that in that context) her attitude is one that I’ve sadly come across a lot amongst academics of her age. These are people who, theoretically, ascribe to the idea that they are progressives, and that they are in favour of diversity and inclusivity, but when push comes to shove will fight tooth and nail to preserve the status quo on spurious grounds like, as we see in this video, ‘unfortunately it’s the white students who are just better’.
Black students who excel, perhaps the ones lucky enough to have received better schooling, are dismissed as exceptions, and black students who aren’t perhaps as ready are dismissed as thickos who shouldn’t be there and whose initial struggles in her class prove that they’re a bit dumb. It’s a racist trope being used to prop up systematic racism.
And that’s before we even get in to some of the other issues that we can guess at here. This woman’s attitude is conservative, so you have to wonder at what her teaching pedagogy is. Is she adopting innovative, inclusive pedagogy that recognises the diversity of backgrounds from which her students have been drawn from, or does she have a rigid fixed idea of what her students should be, and teaches in a way that only benefits them, thus leaving behind learners that don’t initially and immediately conform to her expectations?
I don’t know anything about her beyond that video, but that video alone makes me think she’s a bad educator who should not be in front of students without some significant training (which of course is training that people of her seniority in academia outright fight against having to do because they think there’s nothing for them to learn).
A high profile journalist has been found to have been racist towards someone and incited hatred against her and it was serious enough a case to warrant 'substantial damages'.
I think this belongs more in the racism thread than this PC gone mad one tbh.
Agreed. She’s quite a piece of work. Which is exactly what you’d expect from anyone going in to bat for a prick like Rod Liddle.
That's cheered me up some.
Its a counter point to the 'PC gone mad' brigade. After Burchill abused Ash her book publisher terminated her contract and the right wing media made Burchill out to be a victim of 'cancel culture', which is absolutely absurd. Losing your job as a result of racially abusing someone on social media is a fair consequence of your actions.
Yep and Burchill had to apologise for linking the two as well, but it did all feed in to the 'victimised' right's narrative of being cancelled, without considering that publishers are free not to line the pockets of proven racists.
At least Burchill has seemingly been properly held to account over actions. People need to know that tweets can have repercussions.
And she still has her gig at the Torygraph.
Just a reminder what set this all off.
Just a reminder what set this all off.
https://vtcynic.com/news/students-c...over-his-video-claiming-white-discrimination/
Imagine facing calls to lose your job over a disagreement over a definition
Imagine facing calls to lose your job over a disagreement over a definition
“In my case, If I’m ever confronted I’m going to tell them to go to hell,” one comment stated. “There will be no discussion. And if they persist, I’m going to knock the shit out of them.”
Kindsvatter replied, “damn straight.”
Kindsvatter replied, “damn straight.”
Who is this person, Burchill?
Second publisher bites the dust.
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What if she could back it up by fact? Would it still be racist?
US Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, expressing his angst at the fate of imbeciles being executed and starved, and thus legalising forced sterilisation of these imbeciles as the alternative. I don't think his expression of angst alleviates his actions.
Not the best quote to respond with probably, but I saw it today, and remembered it when I saw you mention her angst.
In this context, it's not even clear what her angst is about. Is it angst that she has to teach her lessers? Or that her lessers aren't doing well?
Even if you give her the benefit of the doubt and take the second choice, what a black person would know, going into her classroom, is that any failure of theirs would be a reflection on their race rather than an individual problem, and that as her brain forms the patterns associating bad and black, that those failures would get emphasised.