And, naturally, his comments show that the course is, indeed, relevant and timely.
State Rep. Dave Murphy: They better get with the pogrom. Besides, Is there anything more enjoyable than a good purge?
These threats become less and less impactful as state funding for land grant colleges continue to plummet.
What’s funny is these guys encapsulate the course in a nut shell whenever they throw a tantrum.
I remember reading about this back when it was pissing off some other easily over-excited mind. As I recall, the course was about the difficulty in studying “whiteness” as a particular in sociological studies. Are Hispanics white? Are Middle Eastern people white? Are Jews white? Southern Europeans weren’t considered “white” by lots of people in the first half of the 1900s.
What it was NOT about was the question: “Hey, isn’t it a problem that there are white people?” I think that would be a more interesting course, but that’s not what this course was about.
I would think a party so melanin-concerned would be really glad for these distinctions to be hammered out.
And people wonder why tenure exists. If it didn’t colleges would be nothing more than political divisions of whatever party was in power, and education would cease, and all the talent would move to other countries.
I’m not sure how a course named the problem with Whiteness would be much help palliating racial tensions. I wonder if the Professor would tolerate a course called the problem with Blackness drafted and taught by a White person. None of the above would be helpful. If the guy posted crap on Facebook suggesting he was OK with killing cops he does need a close looking over.
How is this approach going to help?
Wonder if they could’ve found a slightly more “academic” sounding title. It would’ve avoided the headache.
Some Republicans are so sensitive. They should stop being so PC and people should be allowed to tell it like it is
Some academics are in it for the headache.
I thought the legislature in their wisdom had stomped it flat.
Just another example of small government.
But just because an “academic” titles her course with a blanket putdown of white people which is the very definition of racism, we shouldn’t say so. Minorities have a right to be racist, white people don’t, or so minorities like to think.
George Orwell would be so proud of his prescience: The thought police have arrived!
Unfortunately, he’s an asst prof and is unlikely to have tenure.
Tenure exists so that you can have sex with your students and not get fired. And oh yes this happens all the time. Faculty won’t admit it, but staff knows.
Prof. Ruth López Turley is probably not a “he”. Her course sylabus is at https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/courses/syllabi/134Turley0910S.pdf
I think it says the prof of this course is Damon Sajnani.
Sorry. Speaking as a university professor, faculty having sex with students doesn’t happen (at least not often), but if it does you can and will get fired, tenured or not.
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