I think that it is actually this - “A lot of people really, really hate [conservatives],” as many republicans are not even conservative nor do they understand the term limited government.
I have read every single link posted here. She’s young. I like her and would enjoy auditing a class.
I don’t care for Pappas’s agenda at all. He’s young as well. I don’t like him.
I agree @Bay that we hear it from both sides, and I am equally disgusted by both sides. Sounds like some people find her comments more acceptable because they are from a black woman against white males. Wrong! Hate is hate. Racism is racism. Sexism is sexism. You don’t get a pass just because you are whatever you are.
Twitter is a sometimes nice blob of internet space where you can pretty much say anything and everything. Your tweets can be found through hashtags and your Twitter handle. If someone likes you enough, they’ll follow you and Twitter will put everything you say on their main page. If they really, really like you, they can decide to be notified whenever you tweet. Now, followers are gained through friends, colleagues, members of the same organizations or communities, other social media accounts, and any other person who happens to come across your twitter page. Given her low retweet and favorite numbers, she was A) not so close to her followers B) her followers didn’t really like what she was saying or C) no one cared enough to interact with said tweet. I can’t determine which reason considering her Twitter is private.
Each person handles their Twitter differently.
I don’t think I’d want to take a class from any prof who dubs herself “Lord Commander.”
@Barfly, which tweets are you referring to? The tweets shown in the linked articles span over a variety of topics.
@Bay It’s a Twitter handle. I’ve seen more outlandish names from some of my teachers.
Hmmm…Not quite right, I don’t think.
There—fixed that for you.
You have more faith than I do in some professors not grading relative to their beliefs, whether it is based on race, religion, or other.
^^ awcntdb’s example got an A in the class.
http://www.polk.edu/wp-content/uploads/Response-to-Liberty-Counsel-May-6-2015.pdf
I can’t cut and paste from the pdf. The pdf is worth reading. imho.
The letter was very well written. The professor made a detailed outline of the expectations of the assignment and of the class in the syllabus.
She thinks there are no people with uteri (uteruses?) who are Republicans? Interesting.
I think Jenner might be a little naive in thinking that there is a great deal of support for legal rights for transgender people in the national Republican Party, but Jenner has the same right to be a Republican as any other woman, and being a Republican doesn’t mean that Jenner will retain “straight white male privilege” (to the extent Jenner ever really had it) – i.e., won’t be a “real” woman. Whatever this professor may think.
Also, she’s completely wrong that there was no such thing as chattel/hereditary slavery before the slave trade in Africans as it developed 500 years or so ago.
That was my take as well. Very surprising for an educated person to think that way, but then again not surprising for someone who has spent their life in academia and sociology. The media has distorted reality about political party affiliation. I know lots of Republican women. Some probably don’t have their uteruses, though, because they are over 50.
The ones that are hateful, racist and sexist, @Niquii77.
duh, like this person:
Off topic, but I absolutely LOVE TWITTER! I love the fact that you can customize to your preferences. I get so many great articles and news stories about a variety of topics. I still havent fallen in love with Instagram, although I do have an account, it just doesnt move me like twitter.
Same old stuff that I remember hearing decades ago from left-wing activists… usually the ones who actually were the most racist (by the dictionary definition)…
In general, criticizing something in association with a particular race, ethnicity, religion, etc. often leads to people taking offense. If the critic is of a different race, ethnicity, religion, etc., the backlash tends to be in the form of the offended people calling the critic “racist”, whether or not that is actually true. If the critic is the same race, ethnicity, or religion, calling him/her “racist” seems to be a less believable accusation (even though it is theoretically possible to be racist against your own race).
Should this principal be fired?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/us/feat-georgia-principal-fired/index.html
If a white male (or white or Asian or Latina female) prof had made a similar statement about black females being THE problem, or a problem, that prof would likely be having problems now.
@Barfly Ask a fly if it likes its water sweet…
@Bay If a white male (or white or Asian or Latina female) prof made a similar statement about black female being THE problem, or a problem, I’d want to know why they think that way and what information fuels their belief.
Twitter was just not the place. There’s no context. There’s no background. In academia, conversations that take place may not translate well when taken to the public. What larger conversation were these tweets a part of? We don’t know.
I would like to hear her say more than 140 characters on white males being a problem population on American college campuses. What information fuels her belief?