A very good post by Angus Johnston. If people find it so incredibly hard to handle routine situations in the classroom, they should work on their teaching skills instead of producing long melodramatic screeds.
And by the way, since when is the word “disabled” considered unacceptable?
“I have seen, with my own two eyes, a 19 year old white woman — smart, well-meaning, passionate — literally run crying from a classroom because she was so ruthlessly brow-beaten for using the word “disabled.” Not repeatedly. Not with malice. Not because of privilege. She used the word once and was excoriated for it. She never came back. I watched that happen.”
I’ve got a question, Freddie: Why? Why did you watch that happen? Why did you let the situation escalate that way? Why didn’t you step in?
It sounds like you’re describing something that happened in a classroom in which you were teaching. If so, you really screwed up that day. Because when a student is getting attacked by other students for making a mistake, it’s your job to intervene — not just on her behalf, but so that other students feel the freedom to speak…
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That guy is the woooooooorst.
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You are supposed to use the expression “[something] challenged” rather than disabled. Anyway, whether or not one allows oneself to be browbeaten by others correcting one’s terminology depends on whether one feels one belongs in the social and cultural setting where people are setting these values, or not. Then there are other levels of mischief where right-wingers pretend they are being overrun, when they are not. The right has learned to play the victim card and does this very effectively. I have personally found that if people feel you are not a desirable person to have around, they will play the victim card. Those least likely to play it are black Africans, who are usually mature and resoundingly normal. White people, though, are a little bit iffy.
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