This encapsulates the problem perfectly. At a recent "Anti-Racist" training, the low-scholarship "she/they," a Dominican, intimated, in narcissistic fashion, that the dominant culture needs to change because SHE doesn't like it. Imagine being told by an immigrant that because your culture isn't her culture, you need to change it. And the…
This encapsulates the problem perfectly. At a recent "Anti-Racist" training, the low-scholarship "she/they," a Dominican, intimated, in narcissistic fashion, that the dominant culture needs to change because SHE doesn't like it. Imagine being told by an immigrant that because your culture isn't her culture, you need to change it. And the fealty to pettiness that she was peddling is so antithetical to what academia should be. High school girls' bathroom stuff; don't like the way someone looked at you? Report it as "racist." Innocent, well-meaning questions should be turned into malice. Then in the same breath, "colonialism" is evil, while simultaneously colonizing us by insisting we teach literature on one shallow theme: immigrants feeling out of place because "racist." Even more offensive, she gets paid 6 figures, while I, working like a Dog, earnestly teaching people how to properly construct a research paper (without confirmation bias!) make down south of that.
Your last sentence contains the term "confirmation bias "which leads us back to the" intellectual" underpinning of so much of this :psychology ,and there's plenty more where that came from, Unconscious bias, micro aggressions, dunning kruger effect etc. Designed to be weaponised by a member of the oppressed class against an oppressor ie heterosexual white male(s) when required. But look at photos from any recent psychology graduation ceremony and it's a case of spot the white male.
This encapsulates the problem perfectly. At a recent "Anti-Racist" training, the low-scholarship "she/they," a Dominican, intimated, in narcissistic fashion, that the dominant culture needs to change because SHE doesn't like it. Imagine being told by an immigrant that because your culture isn't her culture, you need to change it. And the fealty to pettiness that she was peddling is so antithetical to what academia should be. High school girls' bathroom stuff; don't like the way someone looked at you? Report it as "racist." Innocent, well-meaning questions should be turned into malice. Then in the same breath, "colonialism" is evil, while simultaneously colonizing us by insisting we teach literature on one shallow theme: immigrants feeling out of place because "racist." Even more offensive, she gets paid 6 figures, while I, working like a Dog, earnestly teaching people how to properly construct a research paper (without confirmation bias!) make down south of that.
Your last sentence contains the term "confirmation bias "which leads us back to the" intellectual" underpinning of so much of this :psychology ,and there's plenty more where that came from, Unconscious bias, micro aggressions, dunning kruger effect etc. Designed to be weaponised by a member of the oppressed class against an oppressor ie heterosexual white male(s) when required. But look at photos from any recent psychology graduation ceremony and it's a case of spot the white male.