I’m sorry, people, I’m grading final exams like crazy here, and I need to vent. The course is over today, so bear with me.
“The national identity of the US is that of the President. Every citizen identifies with the President and adopts his worldview.”
“Basing your actions on the US Constitution is the only way to live an enjoyable life.”
“All Latin America and Spain have got to do to make the world a better place is get over their petty differences and unite.”
“The Black Death plagued many Europeans.”
“This resulted in a killing of Jews but for no reason whatsoever. Throughout history, Jews have never been killed for a good reason.”
“Spain was experiencing the Golden Age of Spain where Protestantism had occurred.”
“The US has only managed to become so prosperous through manipulation and dishonesty.”
“Latin America wants to become more progressive and more civilized in society.”
“All American’s are proud of our country’s independence.”
“Latin America was viewed as backwards by many external nations.”
“More often than not, Latin American reality seems ever so hopeless.”
“The Great Mosque of Cordoba was built by the Visigoths. They didn’t contribute much to the Spanish civilization except the word “guerra” and this beautiful mosque.”
“Franco promoted intolerance, racism, fascism, and Semitism.”
And my absolute favorite: “The identity of the US is that we are a country that is pro-choice (meaning, we respect the rights of women.)”
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Lol, what have you been teaching these impressionable young adults. 😉
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Uy…
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Clarissa, stop apologizing for these posts. We like them, okay?
Despite my certainty that I never wrote anything so glaringly stupid in college, every time I read these I get the urge to dig up my papers to make sure.
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The reason why I keep adding these disclaimers is that I keep getting emails from people (or maybe it’s just 1 person writing from different email accounts) about how I hurt the feelings of students by posting these.
Some people think that teachers are robots and have no feelings of their own.
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This person probably is projecting their own hurt feelings onto your students.
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That’s what I thought. 🙂 Must have been a bad student, eh? 🙂
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Very likely. I’m guessing one that’s seeing their own thoughts and assumptions reflected in the tidbits that you post, that we then mock?
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The Black Death plagued many Europeans.
Factual and a bit of a punny joke.
“Basing your actions on the US Constitution is the only way to live an enjoyable life.”
–sayeth a future Originalist /Ron Paul supporter who asks, “What would the (cryogenically frozen heads of the) Founding Fathers do?”
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“The Black Death plagued many Europeans.
Factual and a bit of a punny joke.”
– Yes, that’s why I placed it here. The pun is brilliant. 🙂
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I was about to say that that one was quite amusing. I thought I was supposed to get the impression that all of these excerpts were bad . . . well, most of them were. They remind me of the terrible type of thesis I would write when I was a freshman: something like “x and y are very similar but also very different.” Brilliant. *facepalm*
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What do u make of this, professor?
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Wow.
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