Professors think they know everything.

[nerca_beyul]

First post here. Been lurking around some, not to sure about posting. But today, I got so pissed off and have been fuming ALL DAY to anyone who will listen

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[fairytiger]

There are so many things wrong with this, I hardly know where to begin.

"People who support immigration laws are making it very difficult to be a brown person."

Wait, did he actually say "brown" person? How is that not offensive?

I absolutely support you saying something to him. The reason he thinks he's allowed to say things like that is because he's been getting away with it for too long. 99% of his students probably agree with him and therefore never challenge him. If nothing else, you speaking up will make him think twice about making sweeping generalizations.

The important thing will be to not get visibly upset or emotional, because then he can just write you off as being too sensitive.

[nerca_beyul]

He definitely said "brown person." And no, he is NOT a brown person. He is definitely white. I think he was trying (and failing) to make the point that other races can be mistaken for Hispanic.

And I decided to send him an e-mail rather than confront him to his face. I figured knowing myself, I'd start shouting "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU" at him. See edits above.

I really hope if nothing else I made him think.

[dark_weezing]

On behalf of White males everywhere, I'll go ahead and apologize for that guy. "He does not speak to me or my race/gender." Heh. Just saying.

Glad it worked out, though.

[cipher_six]

Welcome to the comm!!

If I were in your situation, I would probably shut up and take it and then rant about it in a "safe environment." But that's more because I'm non-confrontational and don't like getting my name out there that way, y'know? That doesn't make what he said excusable, though. Maybe you could send him an email? If it's not OK to make racial/gender stereotypes, then why would it be OK to make political stereotypes and for a professor to teach these (uninformed, no less) stereotypes as "fact" to his class.

[nerca_beyul]

Oh, trust me, I did sit there and take it, and as soon as I got out I ranted about it to ANYBODY who would listen. But I decided that I was sick of taking this stuff sitting down, so I sent him an e-mail (included it above).

[moony88]

I've been facing a similar situation for the last four years. I'm a film student in Arizona, of all places. It's hard. Especially when you realize that you're the only conservative in the room. And I'm not even hard-core, I always tell people at school that I'm Republican-lite. It's really up to you and the relationship you have with the teacher whether you feel it's worth it to go talk to him or just grin and bear it. I was lucky a few times with teachers that I could go and talk to, when I did that I was very calm and was kind of like "Look, I understand that the majority of the room is more to the left, but when things devolve into a political debate that ends with name calling, I'm not okay with that. I'm not a democrat or a liberal." And sometimes that goes over well, I had one teacher who would pull me aside sometimes after class if things had gotten heated and apologize that things got out of hand. I'm not one who debates, I try to keep quiet and just get through it, because there's no point in arguing with people who so

[nerca_beyul]

Being the natural smartass that I am, I almost raised my hand in class and asked, "Um, I'm sorry, what is the relevance of this to ethics in journalism? And can you explain to me how your argument against 'most of America' using stereotypes doesn't use stereotypes?"

I actually get the double whammy in classes because I'm a journalism and English double major. And usually I just brush it off, whatever, but UM, insulting me and calling me racist to my face?! I draw the line there.

And there's a teacher now who gets up and goes on about how evil capitalism controls Hollywood.
Um, wtf? Does he know anything about Hollywood??? Hollywood is about as far from right as it gets.

And how in the world can a professor get away with letting another student do that to you? Um, I would have gone to the department.

[moony88]

I know! Hollywood is capitalism in it's purist form! And I'm pretty sure that a good deal of the $80 I spent to buy the used text book that he wrote didn't go towards charity or any other social program. Pretty sure it went towards a new BluRay disc

[nerca_beyul]

I don't understand why people are so convinced that Obama's hated on more than any other president. Clearly -- CLEARLY -- that is not the case.

And that is terrible! How could someone say that? Why should anyone have to "defend" their point of view? What the hell happened to freedom? And idk if your university has this, but our university also has a Dean of Students office where we can report things going on with teachers. It's not as biased or close-knit as the department.

[mprice]

I love how Liberals proclaim that stereotypes = prejudice = wrong. Then they go on a tirade chock full of stereotypes.

I got this in a tweet from someone I don't even know that was apparently in response to a comment I left somewhere. (I won't include my replies, which were mostly -- huh? Do I know you?)
Tweet #1: Please don't bring that racist republican stuff up in here. Nobody asked you for your racism.

Tweet#2: Clearly Republicans are #racist for their stances on immigration and jihad. Hate wrapped in the mantle of public policy

Tweet #3:I don't know what gum you got tangled in your hair, but don't take your transparent, rabid bigotry out on me. Ok sister? Sheesh.

Tweet #4:What I DO know about you is that you're a Republican. And ALL Republicans are racist. Ergo, you're a bigot.

Tweet #5: Judging by your default, you probably support Israel as a pretext with which to mask your hate of Muslims & Arabs.

[hannahsarah]

Whoa, that last one was just - I don't even. Wow.

[mprice]

The icon I used is the same one I have for twitter.

I'm thinking of replying that I could probably hate them, but that would require my first having to actually care about this assclown.

[hannahsarah]

These days, I'm just too weary to deal with people like that. All I can do is daven more and be the best person I can be.

[hannahsarah]

I can tell you how the liberal script would go. "You have Stockholm Syndrome. You've been brainwashed by whitey, racism is institutional, you are benefiting from the system, and you are a traitor to your brown heritage."

[hannahsarah]

I used to be married to man who is black/hispanic mixed. We got if from all sides, coming and going. All you can do is keep your head up and know who you are.