A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching

Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by beerbajay on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:54AM (#9249978)

The author seems to hate both liberals and conservatives equally, but his rhetoric is pure college republican; playing the victim when one is in fact in a position of power and status and privilege, and a willful misunderstanding of what is objectionable to these people they call "liberals".

It is a fantasy of being a victim when the author claims that they couldn't assign a book on genocide because of liberal students; this is exactly the kind of reading done in feminist and postcolonial studies programs. Also telling is the author's worry that "one bougie, liberal student" would complain about "texts about climate change" which "indicted our consumption-based lifestyles"; this is the position of the left/liberals; it is conservative students which object to these kinds of texts; so again, a victim fantasy.

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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by macho_pikachu on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:57AM (#9251266)

I rarely see these, "playing the victim" arguments shut down. I'll frequently see them deconstructed, explained away, dismissed, but not forcefully and cunningly defused.

Here's my attempt: Academic environments have historically been places of cultural experimentation diametrically opposed to the stifling culture of the workplace.

How desperate and bereft of sensitivity and creativity must you be to emulate the corporate model of HR in your classroom?

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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by platz on Monday March 23, 2015 @11:38AM (#9251447)

very insightful, I wish I could spot these arguments myself more easily, but most of the time they escape me.

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