I was using it to compare the violence of several types of supernovae. According to a young woman who was having difficulty in the class, it was misogynistic and degrading.
I can see why she was having difficulty in your class. I know Glenn Reynolds has said for years that sending your kids to public schools is child abuse. It's one thing to be trained to hate people as the Nazis did and Hamas does, but to train them to be angry, insufferable, nitwits who are incapable of coherent thought is beyond even that.
I've compared AI to a genius but autistic 3 year old, capable of making incredible, but frequently illogical connections. I guess since they can't train AI to be human, they've been training kids to be artificially intelligent.
Or stakeholders. Or bullet points. Or landlords... Those are just a few off the top of my head from my (nonprofit/social services) field.
Actually, pretty sure there's a "decolonising and trauma-informed language" guide at the federal agency level now. I would look it up, but it's too depressing. (Which I am allowed to say b/c I am someone with depression. But maybe my white dominant culture cancels that out... sigh.)
Maybe the bigger problem is how the administration treats the complainants. Can you imagine, back in the 1950s, what those in charge would have said to a student claiming to feel “unsafe” because of a joke like that?
The victim squad has been changing the real world for the last few decades and they're too stupid to realize they've been manipulated to serve a larger agenda. People have stayed silent because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Now, the fear of hurting someone's feelings is real because it could literally land you in jail for life- especially up here in what used to be Canada.
We gave the victim squad an inch and they took 10 miles.
When the narcissism of youth is taken seriously by adults so these young people because workplace and societal bullies.
Maybe he should have just gotten a sick note to skip the upsetting class or called his parents to pick up to remove him from such a hostile learning environment. Your friend must have a lot of patience to endure this rot Holly!
In my simple, middle-class 5th grade class, I once told a student he got a math problem wrong and couldn't go to recess until he re-worked the problem correctly. (Standard procedure in my class--nobody is allowed to turn in a math assignment with mistakes. All answers are checked and mistakes are worked through again, with my help if necessary).
Anyway, this kid cried. Total meltdown. His parents then threatened to "beat the living shit out of that abusive teacher [me]" and "sue him [me] to oblivion."
I have a feeling that this kid will become the kind of college student in your beyond bonkers story.
Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!
What???
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
What? I came in here for an argument!
Oh, oh, sorry, this is "abuse." You want 12A next door.
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What that young man is in dire need of is "getting hit on the head lessons." I'd bet a paycheck that kid grew up without a dad, or he has a hyphenated last name and his dad pees sitting down.
😲🙄🚨 How will these special little ❄️❄️ handle life if they are THIS fragile in college? Adjust your medications dude and toughen up, ‘cause it only gets harder. Thank goodness I did not raise a ❄️
Am I only the one who doesn't understand the basis of the student's complaint? I've now re-read the relevant part of the story three times and I'm having trouble seeing any angle, no matter how implausible, from which the taking of offense makes any sense at all. Did the kid confuse "binomial" with "bipolar" somehow and think he was being indirectly referred to? Did he just find the word "normal" itself offensive despite the mathematical context because he thinks of himself as abnormal due to his diagnosis?
I thank God every day I'm on a pension, and I feel for every sane person still trying to make a living. I promise to keep running my mouth and trying to make a positive change for those having to navigate these lunatics.
Not where I thought you were going with this one. I figured the complaint would from someone who felt "non-binary" folks were being insulted. But bi-polar? Good lord!
These people are crazy (not a slur against bi-polar people, just people who don't understand English and are insulted by those who do). In my essay on Big Data concepts, I used the sentence, "Building useable ontologies is one of the “dark arts” of AI ...." I hadn't retired by the time I published that essay on LinkedIn, and corporate insisted I change "dark arts" to "mysterious arts". Imagine the life of a spectroscopist these days. Soon we'll only be allowed to refer to colors by their wavelengths.
Incidentally, after I had been publishing technical articles on LinkedIn for a number of years, my employer asked us to promote the company on our social media. I pointed out that they made me publish a disclaimer on each of my articles, saying, "The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, opinion, or position of his employer." I pointed out that using my posts with that disclaimer to promote my company seemed counterproductive.
How do non-binary people cope with computer science?
There has to be a way to put binomial into that (very bad) "joke" that got a WaPo journalist fired - "all women are bi - some polar some sexual."
Has this student done geometry and encountered the use of normal there?
I seem to recall some jokes back and forth in Illinois between UI students and ISU students due to the latter university being in Normal, Il . Good thing this student isn't in ISU
More seriously there needs to be some consequences faced for being such an idiot and making such bogus complaints. There isn't and hence this sort of thing is the mini, university version of lawfare where the process is the punishment
Sounds like we are in a Chinese re-education camp. That the DEI took it seriously is scary. If the student told the DEI person what was said, the DEI person could have referred student to mental health services to discuss feelings and stated, "Professor didn't say anything untoward but you are triggered so go talk about it. Drop the class and let's get you into a stats class with safe spaces."
Oh my fucking god.
RIGHT?!?!?!?
Oh the stories I could tell. Don't ever refer to "dark comedy" or "black humor" or "9 on a scale of 10," no matter the context
"9 on a scale of 10"?
Seriously? I can't fathom, or is that some heightist reference? How do such people rate things on Amazon or IMDB?
I was using it to compare the violence of several types of supernovae. According to a young woman who was having difficulty in the class, it was misogynistic and degrading.
I can see why she was having difficulty in your class. I know Glenn Reynolds has said for years that sending your kids to public schools is child abuse. It's one thing to be trained to hate people as the Nazis did and Hamas does, but to train them to be angry, insufferable, nitwits who are incapable of coherent thought is beyond even that.
I've compared AI to a genius but autistic 3 year old, capable of making incredible, but frequently illogical connections. I guess since they can't train AI to be human, they've been training kids to be artificially intelligent.
Or stakeholders. Or bullet points. Or landlords... Those are just a few off the top of my head from my (nonprofit/social services) field.
Actually, pretty sure there's a "decolonising and trauma-informed language" guide at the federal agency level now. I would look it up, but it's too depressing. (Which I am allowed to say b/c I am someone with depression. But maybe my white dominant culture cancels that out... sigh.)
Maybe the bigger problem is how the administration treats the complainants. Can you imagine, back in the 1950s, what those in charge would have said to a student claiming to feel “unsafe” because of a joke like that?
I hope they'd have called his mommy to come pick him up and take him home.
That is a practice that should be revived. Unfortunately the university needs the $$$ for his tuition
The stupid. It burns
This is bonkers. People who do this belong in the loony bin.
RIGHT?!?!?
I feel old. Really, really old.
The victim squad has been changing the real world for the last few decades and they're too stupid to realize they've been manipulated to serve a larger agenda. People have stayed silent because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Now, the fear of hurting someone's feelings is real because it could literally land you in jail for life- especially up here in what used to be Canada.
We gave the victim squad an inch and they took 10 miles.
When the narcissism of youth is taken seriously by adults so these young people because workplace and societal bullies.
Maybe he should have just gotten a sick note to skip the upsetting class or called his parents to pick up to remove him from such a hostile learning environment. Your friend must have a lot of patience to endure this rot Holly!
In my simple, middle-class 5th grade class, I once told a student he got a math problem wrong and couldn't go to recess until he re-worked the problem correctly. (Standard procedure in my class--nobody is allowed to turn in a math assignment with mistakes. All answers are checked and mistakes are worked through again, with my help if necessary).
Anyway, this kid cried. Total meltdown. His parents then threatened to "beat the living shit out of that abusive teacher [me]" and "sue him [me] to oblivion."
I have a feeling that this kid will become the kind of college student in your beyond bonkers story.
What do you want?!?!
Well I was told outside -
Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!
What???
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
What? I came in here for an argument!
Oh, oh, sorry, this is "abuse." You want 12A next door.
************************
What that young man is in dire need of is "getting hit on the head lessons." I'd bet a paycheck that kid grew up without a dad, or he has a hyphenated last name and his dad pees sitting down.
"What? I came in here for an argument!"
No, you didn't.
😲🙄🚨 How will these special little ❄️❄️ handle life if they are THIS fragile in college? Adjust your medications dude and toughen up, ‘cause it only gets harder. Thank goodness I did not raise a ❄️
The world has a way of stepping in front of such people. If you do not move you will be stepped-on.
Am I only the one who doesn't understand the basis of the student's complaint? I've now re-read the relevant part of the story three times and I'm having trouble seeing any angle, no matter how implausible, from which the taking of offense makes any sense at all. Did the kid confuse "binomial" with "bipolar" somehow and think he was being indirectly referred to? Did he just find the word "normal" itself offensive despite the mathematical context because he thinks of himself as abnormal due to his diagnosis?
I suspect both, and so does my friend. He stripped "normal" of mathematical context and heard "math people hate things that are not normal".
I thank God every day I'm on a pension, and I feel for every sane person still trying to make a living. I promise to keep running my mouth and trying to make a positive change for those having to navigate these lunatics.
Not where I thought you were going with this one. I figured the complaint would from someone who felt "non-binary" folks were being insulted. But bi-polar? Good lord!
These people are crazy (not a slur against bi-polar people, just people who don't understand English and are insulted by those who do). In my essay on Big Data concepts, I used the sentence, "Building useable ontologies is one of the “dark arts” of AI ...." I hadn't retired by the time I published that essay on LinkedIn, and corporate insisted I change "dark arts" to "mysterious arts". Imagine the life of a spectroscopist these days. Soon we'll only be allowed to refer to colors by their wavelengths.
Incidentally, after I had been publishing technical articles on LinkedIn for a number of years, my employer asked us to promote the company on our social media. I pointed out that they made me publish a disclaimer on each of my articles, saying, "The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, opinion, or position of his employer." I pointed out that using my posts with that disclaimer to promote my company seemed counterproductive.
Random thoughts
How do non-binary people cope with computer science?
There has to be a way to put binomial into that (very bad) "joke" that got a WaPo journalist fired - "all women are bi - some polar some sexual."
Has this student done geometry and encountered the use of normal there?
I seem to recall some jokes back and forth in Illinois between UI students and ISU students due to the latter university being in Normal, Il . Good thing this student isn't in ISU
More seriously there needs to be some consequences faced for being such an idiot and making such bogus complaints. There isn't and hence this sort of thing is the mini, university version of lawfare where the process is the punishment
"How do non-binary people cope with computer science?"
Good question, and I suppose hex code is a slur on Wiccans. :)
Sounds like we are in a Chinese re-education camp. That the DEI took it seriously is scary. If the student told the DEI person what was said, the DEI person could have referred student to mental health services to discuss feelings and stated, "Professor didn't say anything untoward but you are triggered so go talk about it. Drop the class and let's get you into a stats class with safe spaces."