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mk  ·  3215 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching

I don't understand how this has come to pass.

Where did the idea that discomforting material should be avoided arise? Is it ok to speak of painful material if no one that can easily sympathize with the wronged group is present? Can a group of whites, blacks, and latinos, learn and speak about the Rape of Nanking, but only in an educational setting where no students of Japanese or Chinese are present? Or only Chinese students? Can we not speak of the Holocaust if a Jewish student wishes to avoid the topic? What about the great-grandchild of a Nazi?

Can someone of college age explain this phenomenon to me? What is the motivation behind it?

lil, can you read the word 'nigger' aloud from Huckleberry Finn in your classes?