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[–]-Branson 357ポイント358ポイント  (80子コメント)

I love it when students don't take a professor's bs. If you say something offensive, prepare to be offended.

[–]FairCar[S] 315ポイント316ポイント  (76子コメント)

Same student already called out the professor when the professor said that Western Europeans invented slavery.

[–]-Branson 242ポイント243ポイント  (59子コメント)

If I were you, I'd be questioning the value of my education. Then again, I'm in the uni too, and I've concluded that I'm just jumping through hoops made of tenure for the eventual prize of an 8x11 with my name on it...

[–]SFXBTPD 40ポイント41ポイント  (3子コメント)

well if its any comfort i believe its 8.5 x 11

[–]-Branson 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ah yes, I forgot what the standard measurement was. Thanks lol

[–]making_noise 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Perhaps yours is just smaller than average? :(

[–]nuclearusa16120 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

You forgot your units, plebian! /s

[–]FairCar[S] 115ポイント116ポイント  (45子コメント)

I already agree its worthless, so many of these classes are nothing but indoctrination. Our school requires us to take a Gender Studies class, and a diversity class.

[–]BabyMcHaggis 36ポイント37ポイント  (33子コメント)

what kind of university are you attending? Most universities will require things like a language credit, a math credit, a science credit, a humanities credit etc in your first year- not specific courses, unless required by a specific major/minor.

[–]FairCar[S] 35ポイント36ポイント  (31子コメント)

It is a State 4 year University.

[–]ginbooth 69ポイント70ポイント  (27子コメント)

You should report the professor to the department. He or she is not educating, but proselytizing a dogmatic point of view.

[–]TheMathelm 41ポイント42ポイント  (3子コメント)

Teacher: "I GOT Tenure, Bitch!!"

[–]dqt91 27ポイント28ポイント  (2子コメント)

I have tenure, I can say what I want. George Washington was a black lesbian. I'm sleeping with two of my students, her and her. Please respond to my texts!

[–]funkengruven 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

George Washington was a black lesbian.

That puts a whole new twist on the early American history when you really start to think about "what if it were true".

[–]forwormsbravepercy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Patton!

[–]FairCar[S] 35ポイント36ポイント  (16子コメント)

It is part of the curriculum dude, we have a section for BlackLivesMatter, we had to do a twitter project in the class of posting 4 tweets and retweeting 4 tweets.

[–]Sletts 77ポイント78ポイント  (0子コメント)

If they are really making you do this, can you please let us know what college this is? I want to make sure none of my loved ones or future children ever step foot in there.

[–]5th_Law_of_Robotics 15ポイント16ポイント  (1子コメント)

Was fingerpainting too triggering for the rest of the class?

[–]AbboIan12 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Some of us don't have fingers you shitlord. Check your hand-privilege.

[–]LenaLovegood 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

I find it disturbing that you're required to retweet opinions and stances that you may not necessarily agree with. I would have never been told to that at my university, and I can't say that I wouldn't have fought back if that would have happened. Let's not forget that you probably have to show proof by disclosing your Twitter handle, no? If so, yikes.

[–]soundwaveprime 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I really don't see how that is possible to force people, after noticing that Facebook worsened my depression I left social media and there for wouldn't have been able to complete that homework

[–]tubadeedoo 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Did you do the thing where you write everything with a double meaning and cheeky disdain for the situation?

[–]WeylandTheDwarf 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Was there an option for people who are morally opposed to Twitter?

[–]texasguy93 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

If they have a section for BlackLivesMatter, they should have a section for WhiteLivesMatter or AsianLivesMatter... but they can't have the WhiteLivesMatter because that's racist....

[–]sagan_drinks_cosmos -3ポイント-2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Things like this sound like equality if you have no idea how much more likely a black person is to suffer police violence. It's also, you know, an African-American Studies course, so there's that.

[–]DBchamp 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is a borderline scandal in my opinion. Artificial turf movements are dangerous for ignorant people.

[–]evioive 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Twitter?! Is this the extent to how education has devolved where a University-level course is requiring a "twitter project"? What next, a fingerpainting project?

[–]xcdc802 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

and you're paying them...

[–]15243asd1 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Bloody hell

[–]ampqre -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

we had to do a twitter project in the class of posting 4 tweets and retweeting 4 tweets

sounds like what you should now do is post 16 tweet and retweet 16 tweets. that are the opposite of the ones you tweeted in class. so for every one they made you post, you will post for against it.

[–]frendlyguy19 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

that's what tenure is for....these days.

[–]HerpingtonDerpDerp 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

They've been doing that for decades, and will continue to as long as there are universities.

Reporting Ward Churchill seemed to work though.

[–]Rawkynn 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I took a similar course, and the head of the department (who taught the first day of class) had the exact same views.

[–]PawArmy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

they know...

[–]smithsp86 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

And when the chair shares the same zeitgeist as the professor, what then?

[–]Fres-yes 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm going to call bullshit on that.

[–]fisheramike 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

CMU?

[–]Ctotheg 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That university appears to be ... Questionable at best.

[–]AsthmaticMechanic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The University of California has an ethnic studies requirement.

[–]tlor180 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

Do you go to UCSD or another UC school?

[–]AsthmaticMechanic 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

UC alumnus here, also had to take an ethnic studies course.

[–]yesitsnicholas 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

At Arizona State we had "cultural studies" required, fortunately a 300-level writing course on Religion in America knocked out the literacy requirement and the cultural studies requirement for me. Gender studies, race in America, etc. would have counted, but it wasn't ethnic for us at least.

[–]ChickenDelight 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I had to take an extra summer class at UCSD before graduating after they decided (contrary to earlier guidance) that jazz history didn't count for my multiculturalism requirement.

So I took African-American history, with 300 students, and not a single black person in there. Including the professor.

[–]Firecracker048 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

Really? The REQUIRE those two classes? That's total bs. Considering you probably won't hear about women getting less prison sentences for the same crimes in GS and will probably hear white privilege in Diversity class

[–]Rawkynn 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

I went to a state college as well, the reasoning was to have well rounded and tolerant students (total bs). They also required two PE credits. I would not have graduated if I didn't take "Introduction to Racquetball".

[–]Kriegerian 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Hey, I took racquetball once upon a time.

[–]Rawkynn 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm not bashing it I just find it amusing that there was potential for someone to bar me from graduating because I didn't take a PE credit.

[–]drkitteh 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't see how making "well rounded and tolerant students" is the schools responsibility. It's not the schools place to push ideology. Sure, take the class if you want, but don't require that shit.

[–]BluApex -2ポイント-1ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you think you're current path is worthless then switch to an engineering degree and go make money. It's harder schooling but you get something out of it.

[–]jm419 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

*your

Note, some engineers can spell.

[–]Murgie 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

If I were you, I'd be questioning the value of my education.

To be perfectly blunt, if I were you, I would be questioning the likelihood of this story.

I mean, we're talking about a nineteen day old account telling us their professor has an early grade school level education on a topic they apparently speak frequently about, here.

How many Western college aged students do we really think have never in their lives heard anything about the ancient Israelite's bondage in ancient Egypt, for example?

I'm sorry, but no. That's absurd. The scenario in the submission was at least possible, but the slavery one is ridiculous.

[–]addledhands -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

I mean, you're talking about someone that said ..

many of these classes are nothing but indoctrination

about diversity classes. This is either a hardcore STEM circlejerk, or a pretty obvious troll. Enjoy your downvotes for questioning the bravery of OP for being hostile towards new ideas, though.

[–]srs_house -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

How many Western college aged students do we really think have never in their lives heard anything about the ancient Israelite's bondage in ancient Egypt, for example?

Which stems largely from an account by Herodotus but is now believed to be false. The pyramids were mostly built by skilled labor working for a wage or for tax exemption.

[–]Fraye 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know if all universities are like that where you're from, but i think you're going to the wrong one, if you're just jumping through hoops meaninglessly to get a diploma.

[–]SeanConneryAgain 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mine is bigger than 8.5 x 11. Like 1.5 times larger. Now I just need money to frame it.

[–]GODDDDD 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

My college was nice enough to let me know on week three when the teachers assistant would be only one who showed up and had their laptop queued to a youtube video explaining how physics works.

[–]twistdmentat 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Had a sociology teacher that I once corrected, and she told me in front of class that she had the degree and I didn't. I reminded her she was engaging in a false appeal to authority. It was an intro course. I only showed again for tests.

[–]-Branson 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't blame you. Intro courses are easy enough to take w/o showing up. And they're the ones in which I've found the most power tripped professors. The best kind of teacher is the one that's still in school going for a graduate degree. They're in your shoes and don't have time to make things hard.

[–]astesla 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Victorian age education is hanging on by tradition and not much else.

[–]madogvelkor 22ポイント23ポイント  (0子コメント)

Man... I had an African History class with a Nigerian professor. Students were shocked when he told them that Africans sold other Africans to the Europeans and slavery was well established. The slave trade more or less started with Europeans selling African slaves to other Africans further along the coast. At first the Europeans had little to offer that the Africans wanted except horses, while the Africans had a lot of gold and ivory. (Hence the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Ivory Coast).

[–]xanif 45ポイント46ポイント  (3子コメント)

Was on the way to the train station with a co-worker. We were in his new (used) car, a 2004 audi convertible. This car was kept in a garage for pretty much its whole life (20k miles on it) so it looks brand new.

We were driving with the top down when this african-american fellow pulls up to us.

"How is 600 years of oppressing [the black man] treating you?"

We are both confused and silent as the light turns green.

Next light, red. He pulls up and asks again.

My friend is an immigrant from the Soviet Union. "Explain to me how the Soviet Union benefited from slavery, especially when the region I am from was enslaved by the Mongolian Empire for a significant portion of history?" Then he swore at the guy in Russian for a bit and drove off.

My justice boner was hard the rest of the day.

[–]madogvelkor 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'd be confused too, since it has only been 500 years. And only then if you happen to be Portuguese.

[–]bangorthebarbarian 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Slavic serfdom isn't exactly directly comparable to American Chattel Slavery. Still, them Russians have had a pretty crappy millennium or so.

[–]mikeofhyrule 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thats true though, Chinese and Eurasian peoples have been slaving people for thousands of years, In the Caste system, the bottom was Slaves. EVEN BETTER some evidence suggests that it was warring African tribes that had slaves, and thus passed it on to Western Europeans.... And Egypt had slaves long before the europeans were civilized... Teacher sounds like a grade A D bag

[–]kaasmaniac 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Lol what? Has this "professor" ever heard of the country called Egypt?

[–]adarkfable 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

of course he has. unless the professor was talking about a very specific type of slavery, then this is bullshit.

[–]5th_Law_of_Robotics 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

said that Western Europeans invented slavery.

If they actually said this then this person has no place teaching kindergarten let alone a university course.

[–]e9one 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Liar i saw this exact wolf here before

[–]NorthernSpectre 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

qeq

[–]10097338 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

.... A professor said that? How is this guy a professor?

[–]RoteKavalier -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Do you go to UNC? Is this class mostly athletes? Cause that's a dumb class. (Due to the professor's clear uninformed bias.)

[–]ahurlly 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

I came the closest I've ever come to telling a professor to go fuck himself this semester. Most of my professors have been good people who just wanted to help the next generation learn. I've had a select few though who just have crazy God complexes and haven't had anyone stand up to them in 20 years.

[–]Mal_Adjusted 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Of all the things that did not happen, this didn't happen the most.

[–]SeraphimNoted 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This didn't really happen the first time it wad posted

[–]snorlz 127ポイント128ポイント  (33子コメント)

Asian privilege? What is the privilege of being forced to have better test scores to get into the same school?

[–]5th_Law_of_Robotics 39ポイント40ポイント  (1子コメント)

Having a culture that values hard work and education is an unfair advantage!

How dare they be rewarded for putting in the effort.

In America it shouldn't matter how hard you work, you should be judged by the color of your skin.

[–]kaduceus 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is the most tact summation of this "privilege" BS I've ever seen.

Don't judge people by the color of their skin! Unless they are white! Then everything good in their life is a result of their skin color!

[–]OcculticAutodidact 98ポイント99ポイント  (4子コメント)

Everyone has privilege, except black people. /S

[–]Lord_NiteShade 38ポイント39ポイント  (1子コメント)

Dats cuss dey ignant

[–]FNX--9 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

"all our problems are everyone else's fault"

[–]GeneralJabroni 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

you can't say that! das raysis

[–]HaberdasherA 14ポイント15ポイント  (7子コメント)

Don't Asians and White people need to have the highest grades on average to be accepted to universities while black people get to have the lowest? Yeah some fucking privilege.

[–]snorlz 18ポイント19ポイント  (6子コメント)

Well if we treat whites as baseline, asians have to have even higher scores and both need significantly higher scores than latino or black applicants. heres an article on the phenomenon

[–]w1ndxx 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

If only we judged people on their abilities, and the content of their character instead of passing judgement on the color of their privilege...

[–]angrydwarf 9ポイント10ポイント  (7子コメント)

Perhaps not being considered one of the "bad" minorities? A "model" minority? There's more to it than their admissions situation.

[–]5th_Law_of_Robotics 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

Asians came to the US no more loved than any other minority at the time.

They only became a "model minority" by working hard and succeeding on their own (hey, almost like most Americans care primarily about individual effort and not race at all).

Anyone who gets pissed off that a people can go from second class citizens to respected within a short period of time because they worked hard and succeeded has no place teaching anyone anything.

[–]natophonic2 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's also the factor that over the last several decades, immigration from Asia has seen a greater proportion of rich and/or educated Asians (often saying 'fuck that' to communist oppression) than you typically see in immigrant populations.

Back when that was less true, things were very different.

It's difficult to be successful if you're not hard working, but it's easier if you come in with a hundred grand or two to drop on a franchise fee.

[–]snorlz 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

im honestly not sure and i guess it would also depend on what you define as privilege. At any rate, its pretty obvious that any privilege asians have is less than whites. Even being a model minority has serious drawbacks, especially in terms of meeting expectations

[–]angrydwarf 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh I wouldn't ever say they had more than whites...

[–]BlckMrkt 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

At any rate, its pretty obvious that any privilege asians have is less than whites.

Go on...

[–]heartace 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Significant Examples:

  • culture clashes (i.e. expectation that "normal culture" is following Western standards, such as maintaining eye contact in conversation which can result in labeling non-conformists as timid, weird, or troubled)

  • Needing higher test scores than white peers to get into the same colleges

  • Assumption that the Asian is not from here, even if their family has been here for generations more than other white people

[–]naive_babes 12ポイント13ポイント  (6子コメント)

Being raised in a culture where education is a high priority, social support for the same, knowing the right things to do to get high grades, mentorship and guidance from friends and family, great role models in social circle, family not decimated by unfair sentencing, not facing stereotype threats when you try to get good grades.

Source: Asian with Asian privilege.

[–]thayer28 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

many of those things (like knowing how to get good grades and mentorship) are not racial advantages but are heavily dependent on individuals.

Even so, is the expectation to succeed that is forced upon asians really that much of a privilege? It is the root cause of stories like Jennifer Pan who resorted to lying to her parents to cover up her failures in life and eventually led to her killing her mom. How is the focus on education an advantage for the asian who wants to be an artist or a comedian or a football player?

How is the severe lack of main or strong asian characters in the media and hollywood a privilege? How does asians always being typecasted as either foreigners, martial arts masters, or nerds give an advanatage?

asians may have more privilege than blacks because at least they arent stereotyped as criminals, but asians have a lot of their own issues that nonasians dont even think about.

[–]bangorthebarbarian 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you have to personally speak for your people, you probably aren't privileged.

[–]thayer28 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

good point. i think anyone off the street can tell you about black discrimination as its really high profile (always in the news, black history month, etc) but asian discrimination?

[–]elneuvabtg -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

?many of those things (like knowing how to get good grades and mentorship) are not racial advantages but are heavily dependent on individuals.

Bullshit, they are cultural advantages, propagated through generations and communities.

It's not like, one day all American Asians woke up and independently decided that, hey, we should all independently and individually make our children study harder, and make this decision in complete isolation from how our communities, families and culture behaves.

All you're doing here is denying the existence of a culture and asininely pretending that a culture isn't more than the sum of it's parts, it's just individual independent parts.

American Asians certainly have a mix of issues facing them, from different kinds racism, the culture of "tiger parents", the "bamboo ceiling", but to deny that success is multi-generational and cultural is bullshit.

It may be fucked up, but not having your a non-insignificant amount of your parents generation in jail is a form of privilege in america. Also, having grandparents who were not the victims of segregation, jim crow and institutional racism that prevented them from attaining education and middle class work, is a form of privilege.

[–]Drinks_Like_Bender 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Whoa. Now fostering a culture that values beneficial attributes is privilege?

[–]Sinitic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This may be true for east-Asians, but for many southeastern Asian communities (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand), educational attainment, family cohesion, and livable income belie the overall belief.

Pew did a nicely organized statistical piece in sub-categorizing Asian ethnicities to compare income, education, and family importance amongst other things.

For example, whereas the overall statistic is that about half of Asian-Americans hold a college degree, just <14% of Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmongs hold one. High school graduation rates are among the lowest compared to even non-Asian races.

[–]j3fftt 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

When holding degrees and training constant, Asians make far less than white or black professionals. It's just that most Asians value education and have overwhelmingly more phd's than either other race.

[–]jabb0 160ポイント161ポイント  (9子コメント)

The sword of truth cuts both ways

[–]nuclearusa16120 83ポイント84ポイント  (6子コメント)

"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth" - Babylon 5 Season 4

[–]Grumbleduke7749 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

Found the Vorlon.

[–]Tiandrais 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

I forget, was it Sheridan who said that, or was it Galen?

[–]bubba_feet 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

i was gonna say that a three-edged sword sounds terribly impractical, but then i remembered how awesome the triple blade sword was from the sword and the sorceror, a tragically overlooked film from the '80s that was right up there with beastmaster and krull.

[–]Chosenone- 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is actually a three edged blade. IIRC they were used mostly as daggers in the middle ages as the wounds they caused where much harder to stitch up, and therefore had a higher fatality rate. One cannot slash w/ one, but for stabbing they are great

[–]Genlsis 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

And it fills you with rage!

And for some reason the urge to go on and on about boring "you own your own lives" bull crap that was ok for a book or two but then got tedious and boring as hell.

[–]RedRing86 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Except one side of that sword is much, much duller. But people don't like when you point that out.

[–]EpicMeatSpin 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't be surprised if it's hard for you to get anything above a B in that class.

[–]Slut_Nuggets 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

This reminds me of a story my dad loves to tell from when he was in High School. The teacher was handing back exams and says to this one girl, aloud so the whole class could hear "if this were college, you would fail out." My dad responded "if this were college, you wouldn't be teaching."

[–]CaptionBot 15ポイント16ポイント  (6子コメント)

Insanity Wolf

  • PROFESSOR "MOST OF YOU GUYS WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR WHITE AND ASIAN PRIVILEGE"

  • STUDENT "AND YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"

[–]compaqle2202x 8ポイント9ポイント  (4子コメント)

What was his response???

[–]MeganGinny 50ポイント51ポイント  (2子コメント)

There wasn't one, this was made up.

[–]JamesMean 25ポイント26ポイント  (0子コメント)

Everyone applauded, he got $100% dollars and Albert Einstein shook his hand.

[–]tylerbreeze 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

On top of that, I think this is a repost

[–]silvermember 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

This post was designed to hit all the check marks for maximum karma. Designed for the people who believe in concepts such as reverse racism (racism is racism, the reverse is unnecessary you are not special).

It involves affirmative action, the misunderstanding of white advantage or commonly known as white privilege, Asians and finally African American studies.

He made it up because people here will buy it and this is just a fantasy in his mind. He probably even made up the story below.

For further reading please do read OP's previous topic and his post history. https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/3cp4vq/i29m_found_out_my_girlfriend28f_slept_with/

[–]Nothing_Impresses_Me 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think my 70k in student loans can be considered a privilege

[–]K4S3-R 26ポイント27ポイント  (13子コメント)

"student my interior monologue"

FTFY

[–]juglaz 22ポイント23ポイント  (8子コメント)

Internal

FTFY

[–]FairCar[S] -2ポイント-1ポイント  (3子コメント)

You are right, its impossible for anyone other than the Evil White man to be racist, everything else is a figment of my imagination.

[–]jedi21knight -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you can't/won't say what specific university can you say what state you go to school in.

[–]Jakucha 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh yeah that will go over well on the internet. You know the internet with a bunch of strangers who have lots of free time that people like to fill with maliciousness. While they're at it why doesn't he/she give you his social/address/mother maiden name/long sloppy beej? Would that convince you? How about a quid pro quo type transaction, you tell them where you live and work and what your name is over the internet and lets see how well that plays out for you.

[–]Sirnacane 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

The problem with people who expectorate "white/asian/whatever privilege" is that they completely ignore the history that has led up to said "privilege." Having certain advantages in life isn't random magic, it comes from a history of your ancestors working hard and educating themselves and practicing and teaching good moral and monetary methods.

Tell me "white privilege" all you want. You think that's the reason I attend college on a full scholarship and my dad can pay for my rent? How about the fact that I worked my ass off in school to get great grades, and my dad worked his ass off and went in the military to become and doctor, getting out of the extreme poverty he was born into because both sets of his grandparents were immigrants from Italy?

Or maybe we just have a good life because our skin color is a light hue.

Assholes.

[–]ThisIsReLLiK 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

The professor and whatever student said that will get along great I suspect.

[–]RedRing86 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Turn back, the Comment Section is NOT where you want to be right now!

[–]connor6145 26ポイント27ポイント  (8子コメント)

this didn't happen

[–]thereverend666 32ポイント33ポイント  (0子コメント)

And it's been posted before.

[–]FairCar[S] 40ポイント41ポイント  (2子コメント)

You are right, its impossible for anyone other than the Evil White man to be racist.

[–]je_kay24 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't get why reddit thinks that everyone in society thinks only white people are racist.

[–]aalewisrebooted 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

nothing on /r/AdviceAnimals happened. Forget that and enjoy the memeing.

[–]moeburn -4ポイント-3ポイント  (1子コメント)

What makes you think that? It's not unreasonable or "out there".

[–]3226 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Literally the exact same thing has been posted previously in advice animals and the OP admitted it wasn't true.

[–]moeburn 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

Oh we're judging Asians for their privilege now?

[–]mnam1213 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

am asian, can confirm privilege. it's like the math problems do themselves

[–]TheOneHanditBandit 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They are the other, other, other white meat.

[–]BamBamBoogaloo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

anyone that can compete and succeed solely on merit and hardwork is obviously privileged.

[–]jesusisaslut 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

But white and Asian people have the hardest time getting into college because they have the least amount of scholarships

[–]je_kay24 -3ポイント-2ポイント  (1子コメント)

White people receive more scholarships than blacks.

[–]Spade_of_Aces 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

HA. Okay. Yea.... Good thing I was eligible to apply to all those African American scolarships. /s

[–]johnchapel 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

The whole millennial social justice bullshit concept of ANY kind of privilege needs to stop. It's doublethink horseshit. You don't get to repurpose "Seperate but Equal" and call it a "Safe Space".

[–]marineturndlegofiend 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

Enjoy your reduced grades from now on /s

[–]Obie_Trice_Kenobi 6ポイント7ポイント  (6子コメント)

Students that disagree with the professor (as long as their argument is rooted in logic or fact) can be well liked by the professor. Maybe the rest of the class was too quiet to start an interesting conversation. That student might be the professor's favorite at the end.

[–]Chimpanze2010 16ポイント17ポイント  (0子コメント)

The prof's I've seen who enjoy conversations on intellectual topics with student won't usually blatantly lie or make comments like that. This seems to be a dick.

[–]Jakucha 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm pretty sure this is how I made it through school, cause I also did get a WEST professor banned from teaching outside her department. . . So be cautious. Also don't take WEST classes if you are white, male, straight and have a decent home life. You. Will. Be. Martyred.

[–]marineturndlegofiend 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yes, I know this. It was the joke notice the /s

[–]Obie_Trice_Kenobi 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

ah... that means sarcasm?

[–]Xannin 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah it's hard to tell sarcasm via text, so luckily the people of reddit started adding /s to everything to show they're using sarcasm. It used to be easy to see the sarcasm, but when you have so many crazy opinions floating around, a comment that was once seen as sarcastic might be seen as some asshat expressing a crazy/extreme opinion.

[–]marcoesquandolas13 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

yes

[–]madogvelkor 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

These days so many professors are adjuncts that rely on getting good course reviews for their contract to get renewed that they wouldn't dare do anything like that. Students hold all the power.

Best they could do is get another student to claim that they felt unsafe/threatened/triggered by the first student's comments and actions. That would probably get the student removed.

[–]PathlessDemon -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

DAAAAAMN!!!

[–]legaceez 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Asian privilege isn't even a thing . . . it's almost an anti-privilege even. You gotta work twice as hard to stick out as exceptional.

[–]dcblJack 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Black people. Leave now, comment shitshow.

[–]Idleworker 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

What is Asian privilege? and where can I get some?

[–]CPT-yossarian 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll take 'shit that didn't happen' for 1000

[–]thelandsman55 -1ポイント0ポイント  (3子コメント)

I don't see what the problem here is. Ignoring the fact that this certainly didn't happen, what the professor is saying is that many of the students in his class have had advantages in life that they take for granted but that many of them would never have gotten as far without.

The student is countering with this idea that the professor wouldn't be there if it wasn't for affirmative action, but isn't that the whole point? The professor didn't have those advantages his students take for granted, it was probably a major struggle to convince himself that he belonged in academia and could succeed, if affirmative action helped with that and he went on to become a college professor than I would say affirmative action is working.

To really get at how silly this is lets turn that statement around. Affirmative action didn't help the professor get where he is so he never got there, his overwhelmingly white and asian classroom are taught be a bland but competent white dude who never questions the systemic advantages his students have or challenges them over whether they deserve the advantages they've received in life. Who's better off in this situation?

[–]kaduceus 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or that the professor isn't the most qualified applicant for that position and was given the job merely to fill a diversity quota so the university can demonstrate "look how warm and fuzzy and caring and accepting we are! We have a black professor!"

And if that is the case then the students suffer because the best professor who could be teaching them is not the one doing so.

You're completely simple minded and a demented delusional twisted SJW who is so beyond help they are hopeless if you believe in this crap.

[–]bandersnatchh 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I feel like I can never get a true target on white advantage.

Is it a leg up and everythings easier?

Or is it that no one is judging you?

Is it really Asian and White advantage? Or black disadvantage?

I understand what you're saying, but I would say they are equally insulting.

To me, they both say "what you did doesn't matter, you're only here because of your race"

Which, sucks

[–]buffalobe -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

sick burn

[–]enlilsumerian 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

[–]MasterHerbologist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well played.

[–]3226 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, I think I remember this from the last time it didn't happen.

[–]xCaffeineQueen -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

This isn't being racist, it's true. It also is true the average person does not question how reality and social systems got to be where they are today, and instead make assumptions based on how things make them feel (in this case, offended).

The socially constructed system doesn't care how you feel about it, it still exists as it was created. When Europeans colonized this piece of land, their ways of living, culture, beliefs, values, dominated everyone else. They used people as slaves and committed genocide because of the color of other's skin.

From these facts in history, a foundation was built in our society. White beliefs and values dominated all other beliefs, and it is a continued struggle to fight for rights because of the foundation that was set so long ago. When you look at someone of another race and think they should adjust to your way of thinking, you're enforcing the mindset that was set so many years ago whether or not you acknowledge it for what it is because of the fact of what has created society up to this point.

Everything was built off of a dominate culture, and that culture happened to base a lot of its functioning off of racism. Just because we acknowledge it more doesn't mean it's gone away, everything was built off of it. It probably isn't possible for it to be fully eradicated because it's so deeply embedded.

Edit: Maybe he could've had more tact, but technically it is true. If you view it from an angle of how societies are created, it's true. But if you're saying it to a group of people that aren't in tune with that angle, it will be highly offensive.

[–]keyser12 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.