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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
The spokespuke was yelling "You have to listen to us" like she meant it, like it was a seriously held belief, like it's in the founding documents.

The part she's missing and that she is afraid is on the test, is that she has the right to say whatever she wants, but I, or you, or others do not have the obligation to listen. Nope. Not even a little. In fact we have the right to laugh right the fuck out loud into her shrieking face.

Yep. Folks have a right to speak, but we don't have to give them a platform. AND we don't have to listen.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
Back in the day, my days of the late '50's, one of the Jocks would get into her face and tell her to STFU and sit down.

But we can't do that today, 'cause it would hurt her feelings and might traumatize other students.

Good! I'm for it!

And regarding "Oriental"--that is the term that was in use when I was growing up and I see no need to change it. I really don't care that some now consider it inappropriate. I don't like hyphenated attributes (I use "Black" instead of "African-American") because I believe one either is an "American" or one is not. (I reluctantly changed from "Colored People" to "Black", mostly because it's shorter; the NAACP still uses the former terminology in its corporate name, after all.)

I am not one to adopt change just to change--there has to be a good reason for me to do so and I've not seen any good reason to begin using new terminology just because someone thinks the old term is degrading. "Asian" is too non-specific (Asia is a VERY big place)--"Oriental" ("from the East") is at least more specific.

When I was in school, Asia was divided into "The Far East" (China, Japan, Korea, etc.), "The Near East" (India--Pakistan didn't exist yet, Siam, Burma, Nepal, Tibet), "The Middle East" (Persia, Arabia, Afghanistan, etc.); "Southeast Asia" wasn't generally referred to separately back then--I guess it would have been part of "The Near East". Israel didn't exist yet, but Leganon and Turkey would have been called "Mediterranean". "Oriental" was still fairly broad--it included just about everything from Tibet eastward.

I am a creature of habit and am not ashamed of it. Live with it.

flashguy

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
And I am guessing these fine folks have the vote.
Scary.

It's California, they may each get two or three.

Buckle up. The stupidity keeps growing and isn't going away anytime soon.

I can't imagine a professor putting up with something like that when I was in college. Take the exam or take a zero. Either way sit down and be quiet or leave.

take the exam and get a zero anyways

more than one way to deal with those self-important twunts

It's more of the older generation that uses the term orientals. My oldest is half black and my two youngest are half white. I just call them half-breeds. It's faster than trying to explain to people. My oldest says he checks the black box or the asian box depending on what he's filling out. No clue what he is listed as in the army.

I showed the video to my daughter (she's 15) as to what types of people to expect in college and she just said, wow, i would probably have to smack some sense into her if i knew her.

Interesting how she is using her brown privilege of getting out of taking the test.