What in the hell are they teaching the kids at the University of Washington?

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• CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646

  December 2014

  Pretty sure I took that class 2 years ago... Never went after the first day, most ridiculous shit I have ever seen.

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• MisterEm Member Posts: 6,685

  December 2014

  Information on that slide is concerning, but I think you're giving the professor too much credit....
  
  Entry level course material is prepared by indentured servants of research academia.... Grad students. Same for labs.
  
  Profs will take over the material in the 3XX/4XX range...

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,246

  December 2014 edited December 2014

  But how does that make him a bad professor?

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• AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381

  December 2014

  

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• PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,212

  December 2014

  I live in a rape culture!!!11!

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• RaccoonHarry Member Posts: 2,161

  December 2014

  Welcome to Obama's America...

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• AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381

  December 2014

  it looks like they are teaching the kids at the University of Washington about systems of oppression, Derek.

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• PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,212

  December 2014

  It's the system man!

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• AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381

  December 2014

  PurpleJ said:

  It's the system man!

  
  http://youtu.be/axE83zcx6wY
  
  (only 0:36, and worth the laff)
  

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 63,197

  December 2014

  It reminds of a time in 2004 or 2005 when I was down in the media area next to Hec Ed Pavilion. I had just completed an interview and was shooting the breeze with a starter on the UW football team, a really nice kid. He was telling me about some of his courses. I wish I could remember the specific course, but he said "I never realized just how much the black man is continuing to be oppressed by society until I took this class."

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• MisterEm Member Posts: 6,685

  December 2014

  American Ethnic studies for $200, Alex

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• Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,176

  December 2014

  Maybe the professor is trying to incite discussion. Maybe this is a student presentation. Maybe this is a presentation on biased perspectives. Taking this image at face value without any context may or may not be representative of what is going on...

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• whlinder Member Posts: 4,739

  December 2014

  Is the intent of it to spur discussion and debate?
  
  It's nothing new though, 15 years ago in my first semester/quarter/whatever as a freshman had a Grad Assistant teaching some writing class and she claimed NFL players were like slaves because they couldn't change jobs in a different city. (This may have even been the first class of the quarter). I immediately got after her for the ridiculousness of the statement cause somehow all those players were forced to play football and weren't compensated for it. Dumb fuck.

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• HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295

  December 2014

  The only real problem I see is the definition of capitalism is totally wrong and backwards. Capitalism is what actually helps lift the poor and middle class of society. Today people are fooled into thinking capitalism is what causes extreme inequality and poverty, when it is the most just and moral economic system.

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• Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,421

  December 2014

  Does white supremacy include hating Injuns? Are Injuns even considered people of color (red)?

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• AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,081

  December 2014 edited December 2014

  Swaye said:

  Does white supremacy include hating Injuns? Are Injuns even considered people of color (red)?

  Do white people shed a tear when someone litters on the interstate? Didn't think so.

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• Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754

  December 2014

  "Society is oversensitive and makes too much out of everything!!!!!! ... ... ... ...unless I'm offended, then I get righteous indignation, but THAT'S DIFFERENT!!"
  
  For fuck's sake... this is pretty much this site's equivalent of the LPT going ham on the tweets of Husky players about being OKGs.

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• PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,212

  December 2014

  I'm offended you're offended.

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• RaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,458

  December 2014

  I took black studies back in the day and wrote a paper on how the real oppression in America is economic and they keep us down by dividing us because there is a lot of poor white folk too. Got a F so I went to Whitey sucks from then on and did a lot better
  
  Lesson learned. Whitey hetro undisabled rich people suck

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• MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

  December 2014

  DerekJohnson said:

  It reminds of a time in 2004 or 2005 when I was down in the media area next to Hec Ed Pavilion. I had just completed an interview and was shooting the breeze with a starter on the UW football team, a really nice kid. He was telling me about some of his courses. I wish I could remember the specific course, but he said "I never realized just how much the black man is continuing to be oppressed by society until I took this class."

  Did you get a big belly laugh?

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