Question of the Day, August 31

What are your thoughts about the term “illegal alien”?

Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’

Peter Hasson

Texas Campus Correspondent

@peterjhasson

•Washington State students risk a failing grade in one course if they use any common descriptors professor considers “oppressive and hateful language.”

•In another class, students will lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or “illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’ migrants/immigrants/persons.”

Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” “male,” and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to non-white students.

According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”

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The punishment for repeatedly using the banned words, Breikss warns, includes “but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and— in extreme cases— failure for the semester.”

Breikss is not the only WSU faculty member implementing such policies.

Much like in Selena Breikss’s classroom, students taking Professor Rebecca Fowler’s “ Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” course will see their grades suffer if they use the term “illegal alien” in their assigned writing.

According to her syllabus, students will lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or “illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’ migrants/immigrants/persons.” Throughout the course, Fowler says, students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

In an email to Campus Reform, Fowler complained that “the term ‘illegal alien’ has permeated dominant discourses that circulate in the news to the extent that our society has come to associate ALL unauthorized border crossings with those immigrants originating from countries south of our border (and not with Asian immigrants, for example, many of whom are also in the country without legal documents and make up a considerable portion of undocumented immigrants living in the country).”

“The socio-legal production of migrant illegality works to systematically dehumanize and exploit these brown bodies for their labor,” Fowler continued.

White students in Professor John Streamas’s “ Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class, are expected to “defer” to non-white students, among other community guidelines, if they want “to do well in this class.”

In the guidelines in his syllabus, Streamas elaborates that he requires students to “reflect” on their grasp of history and social relations “by respecting shy and quiet classmates and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.”

Streamas—who previously generated controversy by calling a student a “ white shitbag” and declared that WSU should stand for “White Supremacist University”—also demands that students “understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice.”

Later in the syllabus, Streamas goes even further and accuses Glenn Beck of being an “insensitive white.”

Several other WSU professors require their students to “acknowledge that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist” or that “ we do not live in a post-racial world.”

Ari Cohn, a lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told Campus Reformhe considers such requirements to be contradictory, even given the sensitive nature of the courses.

“It is notable that one of the syllabus provisions warns: ‘The subject material of this class is sensitive and controversial. Strive to keep an open mind.’ How are students supposed to approach these sensitive and controversial materials at all, let alone to keep an open mind, if they have to fear that a misconstrued statement, or one that unreasonably offends a classmate will lead to a grade reduction or even removal from class?”

Neither Breikss nor Streamas replied to Campus Reform’s request for comment.

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Crotchety middle aged man with a hot younger wife dead set on saving this Country.

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Tucci78

“What are your thoughts about the term ‘illegal alien’?”

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Short form? “Barack Hussein Obama II”

He’s one. Came into Hawaii at age 10 on his mom’s Republic of Indonesia passport under the name “Soebarkah,” legally adopted years before by his stepdaddy -“Lolo” Soetoro – to become an Indonesian citizen and “a good Muslim schoolboy,” and if he so much as paused at the airport I.N.S. desk in Honolulu, there’s no record of it.

Stucky

“According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class …”

Here she is …. in case you were wondering what a libtard feminazi cuntfuk looks like

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Stucky

In terms of what I think about the phrase ……….. I just LOVE any language that pisses of libtard feminazi cuntfuks and their ilk.

Keep it!!

Stucky

Of course, in a nation of lies one would expect euphemisms in abundance … they make truth less painful.

Did you know Sarah Palin now has her own show on OAN (One America News)?

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robert h siddell jr

In a required Social Science class at FSU in 1966, the professor had only discussed Joe McCarthy for the first week when I politely asked him about when we would finish with McCarthy and be able to start discussing the Vietnam War. He told me to get out and never come back because I had an “F” for the class. The bastards are just getting worse. We are long over due a Communist Counter Revolution that throws all the Useful Idiots out of all the public colleges and schools, Congress, media, military, businesses, churches and everything else they putrefy. Our children are being brainwashed and destroyed. If we don’t revolt, God will send His Son back to clean house and there won’t be much left standing when He is done.

Ghost of AWD
Ghost of AWD

I wouldn’t hit that.

Stucky

The University of Tennessee has told its staff and students to stop calling each other ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘him’ and ‘her’ – and to start referring to one another with terms like ‘xe’, ‘zir’ and ‘xyr’ instead.

The Knoxville branch of the public university, which has 27,400 students, sent a memo round to its members filled with unusual new parts of speech to avoid referring to anybody’s gender.

According to a gay rights official at the university, the new language regime will make the university ‘welcoming and inclusive’ and stop people feeling ‘marginalized’.

rest of story here —-> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214567/University-Tennessee-tells-staff-students-stop-using-switch-xe-zir-xyr-instead.html

Link to Univ. of Tenn. and the guidelines here —> http://diversity.utk.edu/2015/08/pronouns/

The guidelines were written by Donna Braquet, who is Director of the Pride Center — whatever the fuck that is …………. and she’s a libtard feminazi fatfuk lesbian ……… and in case you don’t know what that looks like, here she is …

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TPC
TPC

Equality for all, shitlords!

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TPC
TPC

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Gayle
Gayle

Since the students at WSU have completed 13 years of free public education without garnering a clue as to their rights under the US Constitution, they cannot possibly grasp that their right to free speech is being grossly violated.

The solution to this crap is so easy. Every student registered in those classes needs to immediately withdraw from them and take the financial hit or failing grade if necessary. That might send a message, but I’m confident they will just roll over. So much for the freedom of thought and expression that is supposed to characterize the post-secondary experience.

I’m not a Rush Limbaugh fan, but I heard him say in an ad for his show, “Given a choice between good and evil, the left will choose evil every time.” Chew on that for a while.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The problem is that these political agenda professors never seem to get personally held accountable through lawsuits.

They’re allowed to continue their positions of power and keep anyone they deem unfit as people intimidated and shamed into compliance no matter how much it damages their students lives.

Money, particularly their own money, is the only thing they really understand in any normal manner.

J. J.
J. J.

My daughter, who attends Washington State University, was enjoying the long weekend with friends at a retreat north of Seattle. She and a group of friends were stopped by the Border Patrol on the way home from a grocery store. The driver of the car was surprised to have been stopped since he wasn’t speeding or breaking any other law. Once pulled over, everyone was asked to exit the vehicle and provide identification proving that they were US Citizens. Is this normal? Well down here in Arizona it certainly is — if you’re a brown person. Race no longer matters. The US and Mexico relations are strained because of the way mexicans are treated. Are we having the same issues with Canada? Apparently so.

Stucky

“Once pulled over, everyone was asked to exit the vehicle and provide identification proving that they were US Citizens.” ——– J.J.

EXACTLY how did they prove THAT? Did they have their birth certificates with them?

J. J.
J. J.

Driver’s Licenses, Student ID’s, and car registration. Harassed and let go. Fishing expedition – car full of white kids. Did not know that illegals from Canada was such a big problem!

Anonymous
Anonymous

I am more bothered that the thought police are going after the words “male” and “female” as though their existence is no longer a reality. Prof must be a tranny.

J. J.
J. J.

PS my daughter just told me that 2 of the 4 people in the car had their US passports. I asked her if they were stopping her because they were looking for someone and they had matched some sort of description. She said she didn’t know – Patrolman never said why they were being stopped.

Papers please!

rj chicago
rj chicago

I wonder what the feminazi would say if I were in her class and just simply said F…U!!! I am sure I wouldn’t last too long.

Montefrío
Montefrío

All this nonsense has gone way, way too far and the lead post today (the house I live in…) explains who has taken the US down this road; comments to that piece exp`lain some of the why and how. I was raised to sympathize with minorities (although I am from a group that once was one in the US), the infirm, the stupid, the peculiar… No more. I’m tired (at a distance) of having their insane, narcissistic nonsense shoved down my throat, tired of their “differences”, tired of their arrogance and will now do all in my power to undermine them at every opportunity by any means possible: no quarter is the only way to stop this now. Viva Francisco Franco!

Stucky

West Point professor calls on US military to target legal critics of war on terror

“An assistant professor in the law department of the US military academy at West Point has argued that legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a “treasonous” fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants.”

“The West Point faculty member urges the US to wage “total war” on “Islamism”, using “conventional and nuclear force and [psychological operations]”, in order to “leave them prepared to coexist with the West or be utterly eradicated”.

http://govtslaves.info/west-point-professor-calls-on-us-military-to-target-legal-critics-of-war-on-terror/

TPC
TPC

Gayle “The solution to this crap is so easy. Every student registered in those classes needs to immediately withdraw from them and take the financial hit or failing grade if necessary.”

Unfortunately its not so easy. You see, a person can’t get a decent job without a college degree these days, and while US manufacturing isn’t entirely dead, there are still plenty of trade skill people around, enough so that wages in non-union areas tend to deflate pretty quickly as they all cut each others legs out from each other in bidding wars.

Kids HAVE to complete these asinine courses, or they don’t get the stupid piece of paper stating they are fit for joining the modern work force.

Gayle
Gayle

TPC

Of course it’s not easy, standing up to tyranny never is. Few people are willing to risk anything when injustice prevails, and so things just get worse and worse. I count myself among the lazy ones whose activism consists of responding to blogs on the internet.

Gayle
Gayle

TPC

I should have used the word “simple” rather than “easy.”

bb

Was in Montana last week at a Pilot Truck stop on I 90 fueling . A gray hound bus pull up full of the most vile Damn people I believe I have ever seen. I ask the manager about them .He said they were from the Congo fleeing the civil war and were granted access to America. Good thing is they were going to Portland Oregon.Chicago either couldn’t or wouldn’t take them.(maybe there is hope for Chicago)
Dirt poor ,couldn’t speak English , no skills , no money no nothing. They will be a burden to the taxpayers forever more.I just lower my head in pure disgust.

IndenturedServant

A better question would be: Why would anyone pay money, via debt no less, to take classes called Women & Popular Culture or Introduction to Multicultural Literature? You’re not looking to LEARN anything in a class like that anymore than the professor (yeah right) is looking to teach anything.

I would use the verboten terms continuously anytime I was in their presence. I’d probably have stickers made and put them up everywhere it might irritate them and even spray paint their cars and carve the terms into the top and sides of their desks. But I’m an asshole so else would you expect?

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