WWTBAM Bored

These seem to be real. I drilled down on some of them and they go to the actual source. I am disgusted at our 'higher' education institutions. Sorry, I don't believe in this stuff. If that offends you, please find a safe space and do us all a favor by staying there.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455065/pc-culture-2017s-most-ridiculous-moments

These are mostly great examples of silly things at which we should roll our eyes and move on. For what it's worth, students from particular cultures are in fact, often late to class. And by their own admission, to everything. That doesn't mean we should cater to it, but it is a true thing.

I am still not a fan of lumping these silly things into the PC label, because I find that label useful sometimes. But maybe I just need a new label.

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My latest manuscript, The Dragon's Song, is the story of refugees ("boat people") trying to escape from Vietnam during the early eighties. My agent started sending it out after a lengthy hiatus. Here was the first response from an editor at Disney/Hyperion:



My agent set her straight by letting her know that a real Vietnamese person co-authored the work and is splitting the profits. So now the editor is happy and is reading the manuscript. Yay!

We've had to adjust the sales pitch (query letter) to make it very clear that this is a shared work and not that of a Caucasian intruding on an Asian's turf. Whatever it takes.

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I have noticed the biggest critics of White's "cultural approbation" are Whites.

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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.

I grew up knowing all the terrible things done to racial minorities by people that had the same skin color as I happen to have. I have always thought that it was wrong. But the things that people of my skin color have done in the past have absolutely nothing to do with me, and I refuse to accept any guilt for it. And I think all the politically correct things that are based on 'white guilt' are equally as bad, and is just the same as the bigotry it's supposed to be a remedy for. There are heinous things that have been done in the past (and some in the present) for all racial and ethnic groups. All we can do, as living people, is be the best people we can be and learn from the past, not re-live it.

Trump needs to learn the difference between consequential and consensual.

You need to learn the difference between approbation and appropriation.

I know, I know, stupid autocorrect.

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It's either that or "not enough coffee" or "too much coffee."

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