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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in fact I think it would be assholish of me to insist others devote brain cycles to distinctions that matter to me at all times
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On the other hand, students of his are being made to devote cycles to fit themselves into his small boxes. Constant self-monitoring.
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and so are ALL the students with illegible identity dimensions that are subject to that kind of rough handling
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every other time I order at a take-out or Starbucks I have to repeat/spell my name. So be it. I shave before flights. So be it.
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So long as people aren't being actively threatened with bodily harm or death for visible identity markers they can't control...
...it's best left for people to work out situationally rather than being legislated into a cognitive tax for everybody
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