(Part 2) Best products from r/TiADiscussion

FWIW, studies have shown that, at the high school level, white teachers decide which students, particularly Asian students, are "good" and which ones are "bad" based on how "white" their behavior is.

The book: http://www.amazon.com/Up-Against-Whiteness-School-Immigrant/dp/080774574X

One review of the book: http://www.edrev.info/reviews/rev448.htm

i've got an audible account, so i'll just listen to it when i'm done with this.

Apparently!

It says "non-functioning razor", but you could probably sharpen it into being more or less functional.

Rapists often are drunk as fuck, what the fuck are you talking about, man, WHAT DOES ANYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH VIETNAM?!

I just don't get your social science (or Tumblr Cliffs Notes) outlook, some men have wildly overdeveloped sado-masochistic urges, which supports the "power" argument, but are you male? Men can view getting-off as a trivial thing, although the dignity of a human female is hugely contingent on her ability to choose her own mates, and it's nothing to trivialize.

I suggest everyone here just get into evolutionary psychology:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Moral-Animal-Evolutionary-Psychology/dp/0679763996

In that case, here's my two suggestions:

Identity Politics and the Left - Eric Hobsbawm

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America - Robert Hughes

Define objective. I suspect that anyone reading an overly negative or overly positive conclusion will likely be dismissed by their critics as partisan.

I personally like the book Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies - which tries in part to look at job postings, class syllabi, department websites, etc. so even if you don't like their analysis that might be another way to explore the topic. (Beware, of course, of the potential for weaponized words).

Understanding that they are saying something out of pain is one thing, being expected to shut up and apologize for something I didn't do, while simultaneously being berated...is something else all together. So tell me, when did you read Guns, Germs, and Steel? I'm sure you have, given the sanctimonious way with which you preach your superior understanding of history and the development of modern societies.

Also, the notion that someone is likely prejudiced for not "understanding history" or "understanding privilege" is a non sequitur; you are essentially saying anyone who doesn't agree with you is likely a racist, and that's absurd.

You know who keeps contributing to the problem of racism? People who see everything in terms of race; you know...racists. People who inject race into situations where it would otherwise be absent, or people who justify bigotry against a specific subset of people, because those people are somehow less deserving of basic human decency, kindness, and empathy.

It is not the kind-hearted but impoverished white man, nor is it the kind-hearted but impoverished black man who perpetuate racial tensions. No, it is the man who acts as the self-appointed champion, the man who would claim to speak for those who are fully capable of speaking for themselves; It is the man who would burn our bridges rather than help build them, the man who prefers the ease of antagonization over the difficulty of ingratiation. It is these men who stoke the fires of racial animosity, it is these men who are truly racist.

It's really common in academic feminism. If you want to be totally fucking appalled, check out Words of Power: A Feminist Reading Of The History Of Logic by Andrea Nye.
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> While men and boys can very well be called "bossy", the connotations are different from when a woman is called bossy.

100% disagree. Whether the subject is male or female, the idea is that they're letting a little bit of power go to their heads. "Bossy" has a negative connotation no matter what.

>While it'd be nice if women weren't trivialized and anything they say in a stern tone was seen as bossy/bitchy

Again, 100% disagree. I know fantastic woman leaders, and I'd never dream of calling them 'bossy'. I know awful woman leaders, and the definition I used above is a perfect description.

>It can also be a term of endearment from woman to woman. ("What's up my bitches?", "Oh, you little bitch!")

> By transforming a negative word into a more positive word, you strip the power of that word. Think about how we perceived the word "nerd" years ago and how it is perceived now.

This only works if it's done in a self-effacing way. If I say, "I'm a total nerd, I had a Star Wars marathon last weekend", 'nerd' isn't insulting. If I ordered a "Nerd Pride" shirt, you'd probably think I'm some kind of neckbeard with no life. The "bossy"/"Bitch" equivalent to the latter would be getting a bumper sticker like this. I don't care if you're trying to reclaim the word, you just end up looking like an asshole.

>I know that this is not true because blackness is associated with night time, when crimes are typically carried out.

You're also glossing over ancient, medieval, and fairly recent medical "science". Historically, Europeans honestly thought that night air was fundamentally different from daytime air. They believed that night air carried serious diseases and plagues. This belief was known as the Miasma theory.

It also ignores theology, which isn't limited to Europe. Concepts like the Islamic concept of luminosity, which holds that things are morally light or dark depending on their degree of separation from god / whatever ultimate end there is are common in Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. SJWs go batshit crazy when you bring up Islamic mysticism in language, particularly when you point to the fact that Arabic had a major influence on French, Spanish, and Portuguese thanks to their presence on the Iberian peninsula from 711 until 1492.

If you speak up and mention this, they will essentially use a combination of well poisoning and ad hominem attacks ("you're making me feel unsafe" - a common shaming tactic) to shut you up. You need to remember that you're in a field of study that begins with the answer and searches for the question. When I was stuck in one of these courses, I literally did no more than ignore the readings, take Marxist documents and CTRL+F "capitalism" and "class" and auto-replace it with "patriarchy", "gender", "Euro-centricism". I got a 98 in the class...

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I really loathe the Faux News channel, but when this story broke I tried to investigate some of what this class was about. I found the textbooks online. One of them, called the Everyday Language of White Racism apparently says that saying things like "adios" and "no problemo" makes white people racist.

Honestly, at this point it is like they are totally diluting the meaning of the word racism. It used to mean people who were total bigots and assholes who really did think they were superior to others based on skin color. Now it means white people who are bad at speaking spanish, and like bellydancing and tacos.

Well, there was the fact that he said that he was worried about a Federal judge being biased because he was Mexican. You know, the one I mentioned upthread? The one from fucking INDIANA? Calling a judge biased based on his apparent race is... racist! My source is... Donald Trump, who said that shit himself on camera.

Also, upthread, was mention of the Department of Justice going after the property management company that Trump ran twice for racist practices related to black applicants. Discriminating against people based on race in terms of whether or not you will rent to them is... racist! If you need a source on that, there's google.

The, the book written by the former president of his casino. Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump-His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall. I wish I had an affiliate link. The statement was "Besides that, I've got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control.... Don't you agree?" Do I really have to point out what this is an example of?

So yeah, the guys is what we in the field like to call "really fucking racist", probably just shy of "don't mention blacks around Uncle Ted even if he's sober"-racist. These facts weren't hidden away or never mentioned. I didn't really go hunting for them or engage in anything a junior high English teacher would call research. It's all fairly common knowledge.

Tell me, is any of this really a surprise to you?

Edit: And you edited a bunch of crap into your post. Whatever.