PC Principal thread

[Arelian]

Students feel entitled to being right because they are customers via tuition.

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-ed...n-me?CMP=fb_gu

Academia--and the workforce--need to figure out what the fuck university is actually for. This is the logical conclusion to, "Pay me a shitload of money so you can work a moderate-paying job."

[NynJa]

Students feel entitled to being right because they are customers via tuition.

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-ed...n-me?CMP=fb_gu

If you consider education a product that you're purchasing at retail, then sure...the logic they're implying is valid (except "the customer is always right" is a full of shit line that needs to be taken to the back and beaten to a bloody pulp). Except they're not paying for a product, education isnt a product, its a service, and the phrase "the customer is always right" doesnt apply to a service. If "the customer is always right" applied to services, then why would you pay for a service to begin with? Why would you hire that plumber if you, the customer, know better than them? Why would you hire an electrician if you're always right? Why would you hire a tax advisor to do your taxes if you're always right?

[Arelian]

The issue is that the rhetoric around university for a decently long while is that you're paying for a piece of paper. You have to jump through some hoops to get said piece of paper, but ultimately it's why you're in school. You aren't going to school for the service, but rather the good you obtain at the end of said service.

[Koul]

College meals are offensive

[Ksandra]

College meals are offensive

I always cited food as a proof that cultural blending can work and that cultural appropriation whining is ridiculous.


It was only a matter of time before they ruined food for me, too.

[Koul]

yeah, I knew it was going to happen too. I wonder what they think of fusion cuisine. Or if a karate teacher is white. I can't wait till PC culture really hits hard on anime. I anticipate the fallout to be delicious

[Vandalhart]

They just did some banning of yoga classes with white teachers on a campus somewhere in Canada recently I believe. I would assume that'd be the same situation as if a Karate teacher was white.

[Ragnus]

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/21/460282...-up-opposition

Obama officially comes out as a bigot shitlord.

[Melena]

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/21/460282...-up-opposition

Obama officially comes out as a bigot shitlord.

How so, reading that article he's basically saying the protesters should engage the opposition with dialect, not just drown them out with noise.

"I think it's a healthy thing for young people to be engaged and to question authority and to ask why this instead of that, to ask tough questions about social justice," Obama told Inskeep. "So I don't want to discourage kids from doing that."
But, he continued, "As I've said before, I do think that there have been times on college campuses where I get concerned that the unwillingness to hear other points of view can be as unhealthy on the left as on the right."

[Gredival]

No one with Obama's background as a community organizer is going to come out and say people shouldn't organize and protest for greater equality. The problem isn't with the youth wanting to be activists, it's their victim mentality which in turn infects the methodology of their activism (IF YOU DON'T CATER TO US YOU'RE RACIST/SEXIST/CISNORMATIVESCUMLORD) end goals of their activism (bullyproof windows and trollsafe doors)

[Ragnus]

Yeah. That's the joke. He came out saying what he should have and it makes him a bigot shitlord for not just agreeing with the PC Hivemind...

[Gredival]

Yeah. That's the joke. He came out saying what he should have and it makes him a bigot shitlord for not just agreeing with the PC Hivemind...

To be fair, you should have said he's CISNORMATIVE SCUM

[Marootsoobutsu]

To be fair, you should have said he's CISNORMATIVE SCUM

Hey, he's white, too. ALL IT TAKES IS ONE DROP OF BLOOD.

[Charismatic]

That's not how the one drop rule works.

[Restrat]

only need one drop of privilege

[Marootsoobutsu]

That's not how the one drop rule works.

Sure it is.

If it works against him, that's exactly in the spirit of the one-drop rule.

[Andalusian girls]

the one drop formulators must have been really bad geneticists

[Gadritan]

College meals are offensive

Just stumbled across this. So many things wrong. General Tso's isn't even a real Chinese dish, much less authentic. Also, traditionally most of the chicken is streamed rather than fried in Chinese dishes. My wife's brain nearly exploded reading that. She has 3 degrees from the CIA and specializes in Asian cuisine.

[BaneTheBrawler]

is she an Iron Curtain Chef?

[TheDirtyHobo]

General Tso's isn't even a real Chinese dish, much less authentic.

I'm sure that's part of the problem. That's a pretty blatant case of cultural appropriation. But that doesn't mean it's bad, it should just be understood that this (and a lot of foreign restaraunt dishes) isn't an 'authentic' experience. The same way all but a few select idiots understand that a pepperoni pizza isn't an authentic Italian experience, but it got inspired by something else that ultimately has roots in Italy.

Although it's pretty obvious the Japanese student doesn't even know what sushi actually means, so that deserves its own special brand of derision.