This is the cronyist language regulation equivalent of $10 epipens costing $600. news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/r
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Confused by your tweet. Comparing the university or the professor to those charging outrageous prices?
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Read the article and it almost made me ill. Like a vigorous defense of a professor referring to his black students by only the N word.
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I don't think that's even remotely an appropriate analogy, but not an argument I want to pick.
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Agreed it's not 1:1. Regardless, I wish the letter to the professor had been unflinching in its denunciation.
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A closer analogy might have been him insisting on calling his Japanese/Chinese/Indian students only "Asians."
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Glad you made that analogy because I was going to if you pushed me. I am sometimes mistaken for other browns and I don't mind
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Conversely, other folks have been violently attacked in the US just for wearing turbans or burkas, so that confusion leads to harm.
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yes and they choose to wear those too and pick those battles. How you perform identity is always a choice of battles you pick

