Worst of Social Justice

[mellenORL]

I did just a little digging so far, links to links within versions of this "viral" story. So far, I determined that the site first linked to is a small-government-conservative site, no surprise since it's named the Federalist Papers. I did find a quoted UCLA Report PDF document about racial bias incident investigations amongst the faculty and administration, not the student body. When I get time later on I'll back check other links.

In any case, if the story about students protesting a university instructor's grammar/spelling corrections is true, well, it just seems like IRL trolling or Tumblrina spew. It's just not possible for any student of any race to have never experienced seeing teachers' spelling, grammar or factual corrections on their work assignments, going all the way back to first grade.

[Askold]

It's just not possible for any student of any race to have never experienced seeing teachers' spelling, grammar or factual corrections on their work assignments, going all the way back to first grade.

...But is it possible that a group that wanted to protest on something this absurd waited until a random professor corrected someones assignment and then had this protest so that there would be precedent for cases like this? Maybe it was trolling. Maybe they didn't have any proper reason to be angry so they made up something like this. Maybe they are Tumblr social justice warriors and only recently got organized and this was the first time they had a live protest over "Tumblr type" issues.

[mellenORL]

Yeah, there have been other recent cases of Tumblrina virus infestations erupting in real life on campuses recently. Like that "No American flags on Campus - it oppresses non-citizen students!".

[Eiki-mun]

And always in California to boot. The last one was at UC Berkeley, I think.

[I am lizard]

Yeah, there have been other recent cases of Tumblrina virus infestations erupting in real life on campuses recently. Like that "No American flags on Campus - it oppresses non-citizen students!".

Snopes pointed out the ban didn't actually stay that "No American flags allowed on campus"
http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/ucirvine.asp


Another possibility here is that the students were actually protesting something like racial discrimination in grading and this was clickbaitified into "Students protest teacher who gave bad grade".

[Eiki-mun]

I'd be more than able to believe either one of those possibilities, really. Clickbait happens all the time, but on the other hand... radflakes are getting bolder and bolder.

[niam2023]

...These fucking otherkin...



...What.

[Sigmaleph]

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/this-ucla-professor-called-racist-for-the-horrible-thing-he-did-to-a-black-student

THIS HORRIBLE PROFESSOR DARED TO CORRECT THE GRAMMAR USED BY A POC!!!

Really, that is all he did. A student returned a paper that had grammatical errors so the professor corrected the errors (and presumably docked some points) and as a result 25 activists staged a protest against him.

It's a bit more complicated than that. They aren't objecting to grammatical errors being corrected, their objection is that they don't think the alleged errors were such, but rather a reflection of ideological differences. The one example given is on whether you should capitalise Indigenous*. The other thing mentioned is that the professor wanted papers in the form of Chicago Manual of Style and some students wanted APA style because it is more commonly used in the social sciences. I don't know if this is representative of the general type of errors discussed.

There is also the claim that this is just one thing of many and they are protesting general policies that discourage a conversation on race or something to that effect.

My view here is that enforcing overly-strict rules on capitalisation and citation styles is pointless bullshit, but also that maybe the way to deal with that pointless bullshit is to just use the citation style the other guy likes because otherwise you're just piling bullshit on bullshit and it's your grade that suffers for it. I have no idea whether the other stuff was deserving of a protest. Students protesting for stupid reasons is a thing**, but also people being unfairly dismissive of student protests.

*capitalised here not because I have any position on the subject, but because I have to write it some way and I flipped a coin.

**it certainly is one of the favourite activities of my student centre, grumble grumble.

[Ultimate Paragon]

So, Kylie Jenner posted a picture of herself with silver skin on Instagram, and the Outrage Brigade is calling it "blackface".

https://archive.today/DolRT

[I am lizard]

So, Kylie Jenner posted a picture of herself with silver skin on Instagram, and the Outrage Brigade is calling it "blackface".

https://archive.today/DolRT

That does look fairly blackface-ey.
Hold on, what does zegaurd have to say?

[mellenORL]

This Twitter tempest is turning into another What Color is The Dress meltdown.

It looks like a graphite silver with subtle violet tones, to me. The photographer created the effect by using neon and ultraviolet lighting (AKA, "black light" - ha!). I'm no fan of any of the professional celebutards, but Kylie Jenner is stunningly beautiful in these pictures.

Historically racist black face involved very heavy paste or "pancake" makeup, originally made by mixing burnt cork ashes with lard.

[I am lizard]

This Twitter tempest is turning into another What Color is The Dress meltdown.

It looks like a graphite silver with subtle violet tones, to me. The photographer created the effect by using neon and ultraviolet lighting (AKA, "black light" - ha!). I'm no fan of any of the professional celebutards, but Kylie Jenner is stunningly beautiful in these pictures.

Historically racist black face involved very heavy paste or "pancake" makeup, originally made by mixing burnt cork ashes with lard.

Ah.

[Second Coming of Madman]

[Random Gal]

Any idea what "queer game design structures" are?

[Art Vandelay]

"Press F to pay manwhore"