Professor Penalizes Student: '"Mankind" Does Not Mean "All People” To All People'

Sorry, you can't have your 'world' stuffed and mounted on the wall for posterity. I know that it hurts. Time to put those big boy pants on and leave the superman underwear in the drawer.

 

She's still nuts. According to dictionaries, mankind certainly means ALL people. It doesn't matter how she interprets it. Being a professor doesn't mean you're smarter than anyone else. It just means you have a license to teach which is often scary.

 

If you keep reading my posts, I have been showing you conservatives the pattern in your language and behavior often. this is just another example of conservatives trying to undermine authority and turn themselves into victims whenever there are consequences to ticking people in authority off. I will continue to be as helpful as I can be in that regard. The professor makes the expectations and, yes even special snowflake conservatives, are held accountable. Break a rule, lose a point. Many of us learn this in kindergarten.

If a liberal had been Trump's parent, he would not be sending those tweets at 2 am and then pretend to be shocked when they bite his ass. If more of you conservatives had been properly raised by progressive parents, you would not defend them.

 

The teacher is the snowflake because she cannot tolerate standard English and most likely suffers from Androphobia.

 

I flunked a sociology class once, refused to write about "White Privilege" for a teacher that had less of a spine than the Turritopsis dohrnii.

I submitted a paper on black privilege. At the time Affirmative Action was in full swing, people still remembered the LA riots,and I brought up the sentencing rates for black teens compared to whites in demographically similar areas alongside the rates of violent crime for each area. He wasn't to happy, he looked like an ass in front of a rather large group of people.

Moral of the story, embarrass people publicly with facts instead of nonsensical emotion, it's MUCH more rewarding.

 

No, she is the figure of authority as the Professor teaching and grading performanc. The student can't handle it without playing the victim card, and you likewise undermine authority when it suits you.

 

Lol.

Grammar is grammar, it was used correctly.

However she, as George Carlin pointed out, wanted to control the way the student thought. That's how you do that, with language.

 

She is a figure that doesn't deserve to be in authority and should be strongly reprimanded for her idiotic revision of the accepted definitions of words with her own nonsensical Feminazi garbage.

 

Double post

 

The teacher's 'standards'(such as they are, which are very poor IMO) are not acceptable. It's a teacher's job to teach the curriculum in a non-political fashion, to grade accordingly and to gear the teaching towards the student. When you factor in that this particular student was a FEMALE, it's all the more egregious.

Sadly, this practice is not limited to this "professor". I can vouch for my own experience in Civics Class. We were instructed to write a thesis on terrorism, and I chose for my thesis the fact that we had armed the Muhajeeden. The teacher, a noted "independent" did not like my source material. I had a hissy fit. I quit the class afterward, and I read Hillary's book Hard Choices with GREAT satisfaction.

These "teachers" are protected by the Teachers Union, they fail to educate our kids and they're a HUGE part of the problem for our failing instruction.

 

Conversations are moderated for their civility as well as to maintain order in the public forum. Whereas the only moderating this poor excuse of a English Teacher should be doing, is assuring that the language used is correct in its usage and sentence structure. This Teacher overstepped her bounds because she didn't LIKE the usage of a word, not that its usage was incorrect.

Such a flagrant abuse of power, should not be tolerated. In 2017 though, there are Americans who want this in Academia. These same people however should not be complaining about our poor quality in comparison to European/East Asian students. They chose not to compete and instead to chase nonsense.

 

Why must liberals inject politics into every human endeavor?

 

Wrong again. Her triggered response to the word mankind doesn't change what the dictionary says.

She is flat wrong.

Let's read it again:

Definition of mankind

1. 1\ˈman-ˈkīnd, -ˌkīnd\ : the human race : the totality of human beings
   

It was used properly as stated in the English language.

Now tell me, where does it say it only applies to men? Where are you getting this insanity that she can decide what words mean and not the dictionary? I'd love to hear you explain it.

 

Your lack of education in the actual definition of words is truly pathetic. Your personal triggered emotional definitions do not change the dictionary's actual definition.

 

You said human!!

 

So let's break this down. Liberalism means arbitrary and unapologetic vacillation between demanding adherence to rules, and arbitrary dismissal of them. Mindless thought nazism and pedantic absolutism in contrast with willful disobedience linked to ideological purity. Here, likely a clear issue of bullying by a professor and authority figure, a student if exposed to the willful consequences of a small minded insecure woman with authority issues. I suppose the family could and should demand a refund. Education simply lacks appropriate customer service and professors and administration loads sheltered from having to respect the rights and needs of their student charges.

What an awesome direction for consumer protection.

 

Isn't this crap sad? Let's be real simplistic: Woman female. Humanity encompasses both genders. As does mankind. The very word "KIND" implies both easily. My sympathies lie with the student. Could she appeal? Yes, but why put it on the record? Why SHOULD she have too? She made no grammar or usage mistakes whatsoever. Teacher exposed herself as unqualified to teach, the same as her colleagues

 

Professorial malpractice. Time these pinhead ideologues are exposed to real liability for their actions.

 

Any political action here is the student's (and the RW drones spreading the meme!) She knew the specs for the work going in, and blew it. Then made a shouty fuss in the RW echo-chamber.

 

Those 'standards' are not acceptable. They should not be HELD to be acceptable. There were much smarter people in life(Newton, Einstein, etc) who did not have to go through such substandards in academia. What goes for the best, should go for the rest. The teacher is not qualified to teach and if I were the administrative board I'd see to her dismissal.

 

I don't think you noticed but I did not speak to the narrow issue at all. I spoke about a conservative pattern of behavior when confronted with a decision they don't like. Its simple. Grow up and stop whining if your teacher does not treat your preferences and choices as your grandmother might. Basically the special snowflake can't handle the consequences of choices made to disregard the professor's rules, and conservatives rush to defend. Its too predictable.

 

No she does not care what the student thinks. She even invites a rebuttal in her comments. It won't change their grade or the rule. I am sorry you can't tell the difference between the two but conservatives like yourself think any decision that can't be altered by a good pout means someone is trying to 'control' your thoughts. Special snowflakes the lot of you.

 

It's not a "rule", it's a desire(in her words) by the "Modern Language Association" and by the "American Psychological" Association. The "Rebuttal" is simple: Professor, have they ever written a dictionary?

"No?"

"Has the definition of these words changed?"

"No".

"Subjectively then, you changed them."

"Well, yes, but they should be changed!"

"Before you rule then, I suggest you call Webster and put in your Suggestion for the change. Until then, you violated your responsibilities as a teacher."

 

there you go again. If authority does not bow and scrape to the whims, the whines and stomping feet of conservatives, you declare them substandard. You don't get to decide that one interpretation of language and its use is more political than the other, simply that one is endorsed by the status quo expressed in dictionaries. The 'political' is expressed in what language did, and what language may do instead. Change in language and its boundaries is not any more political than keeping what was because . both may reflect social and cultural identity that have political overtones. her position is that the language as used is a political statement that has been swallowed by a culture that that is reflected in those dictionaries.

 

The rule describes what she expects for the essays turned in to her class for grading. This is her rule with respect to how she intends to grade, just as she can refuse to accept double spacing between lines as her standard. Rebut all you want, whine, and sulk all you want and rant and scream all you want about dictionaries. the fact is she is the professor and the university will support her. I suggest that you start your own school and hire your own professors.