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December 31st, 2016, 03:56 PM | #291 |
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The latest load of bollocks comes from the snowflakes at the University of Maryland.
Students calling themselves "Project UMD" have released a list of demands in their effort make the campus more amenable to "marginalized, American Indian, black, latinx, LGBTQIA+ (this acronym seems to get longer every time I see it), muslim, pro-Palestine, and undocumented" students. This latest round includes scholarships for “students of marginalized communities,” a ban on Columbus Day, beginning every on-campus event with an acknowledgement that “this is Indigenous Land,” that African American professors get tenure, that preferred pronouns are included on rosters, and that “queer diversity training” is required. Not to be left out, muslim students also want “one room in each major building designated for prayer” and “shuttle services for Muslim students to have access to a place of worship.” (where are the 'separation of church/state' people now?) In another attempt to remain relevant, the pro-Palestine students want the administration to condemn the “conflation of pro-Palestinian activism with Anti-Semitism,” claiming that “pro-Palestinians do not reject the human rights of any group of people.” (really?) No Jewish student organizations have joined this group. Of course, these snowflakes also expect the University to publicize these demands, basically making sure that every student on campus is aware of their collective "plight". The University is a public institution (e.g. taxpayer funded) of nearly 40,000 students (both undergrad & grad schools). The average cost for in-state tuition is $25,000/year, out of state is $47,000/year. Do the math. I'm sure parents who are out 100-200k for four years of this bullshit are proud that the one thing their graduate can put in their resume is that they demanded other people pay for their vision of social justice. Happy New Year!
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January 1st, 2017, 01:00 AM | #292 | |
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Personally, I don't think this kind of re-branding is helpful in the wider cultural context, e.g. followers of other religions will see this as a cheap attempt to legitimize an inherently biased system with minimal effort, and the public at large will see it as yet another case of p.c. gone mad. I noticed it today being used in the field of "bible archaeology" - where the re-branding serves a different purpose. Bible archaeology, as a discipline, appears to be split into two different approaches, i.e. (i) "the bible was right" approach which sets out with the distinct aim to prove that, and (ii) the "how accurate is the bible?" approach which takes the bible as an ancient source and cross-references its historical/cultural content with other ancient sources and archaeological findings and then checks what comes up as the most likely common story. To speculate: I can imagine that scholars following these different approaches abhor the opposite approach. In that context the use of "BCE" instead of "BC" makes some sense, to signal: we are taking approach (ii); even type (i) scholars may go along with that re-branding, as it promises a more scientific attitude. Such re-namings of terminology that is "not quite right" are not uncommon in academia, I have seen this in my own field. Problem is: AD/BC is not just academic terminology, it is used by the public at large, which is most likely to resist the change. |
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I wonder if the Fundamentalist Christian right would be amenable to using Protestant prayers in schools two days a week, Catholic prayers one day, Muslim prayers another, and rotating the fifth day through other faiths, with a couple of days a month used to teach agnostic and atheist arguments? Let the kids choose for themselves.
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Sometimes it is worth going through such a change though, e.g. when decimal numbers replaced the old Roman numerals. The metric system would be another example of that ilk, and that it did not make it in the US and only partially in the UK is mostly because its benefits are more felt in science/engineering than in everyday life. |
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January 2nd, 2017, 11:30 AM | #298 |
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Further evidence that the west is sleep walking into an Orwellian nightmare . Think that men are men and women are women ? not in New York you don't , not unless you want to risk a $250000 fine .
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It hasn't been recent years either, it's been a slow but steady build up since probably early 90's I reckon, at least I've noticed it down here at the ass end of the planet.
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