Posted on 09/04/2020 3:28:38 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Professor Greg Patton teaches at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. During a recent online lesson, he spoke about how different words can sound in different languages.
Without any apparent harmful intent, he pointed out how something sounds in Chinese, and some people heard a racist word. He has since been placed on temporary leave...
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I think the point being made is that when you hear a Chinese person speaking Chinese and it sounds like they are saying that other word, they really aren't.
Nega, please.
Nega, please!
It’s a tie!
Heard that word every day for almost 30 years at work.
No, you were second! (See, I can use exclamation points, too. :)
It means “that.” A large company I work with, which I will not name, was sued and had to pay a large settlement to an African-American employee who heard one of his Chinese coworkers speaking Mandarin to another, and this word of course is commonly used. The company settled for mid-six digits, I’m told, and the complainant kept working there.
It sounds like an interesting experiment.
So for this, we need to suspend him, and have a complete investigation of this alleged hate crime????
The way the world is now, this guy is facing sanctions, maybe even termination. I suppose to the radicals who have infested our culture and risen to positions of responsibility, this innocuous incident is considered a crime against humanity.
I recall a few years ago, someone, I think in the Washington, DC government, was forced out for saying “niggardly”.
Yep, I think using the exclamation point, cost me there.
Other students should demand a refund commensurate with the disruption of their education.
Reminds me of the geniuses in Washington, DC who attacked one of the city’s money managers for saying that the funding for a key project was niggardly. They didn’t know the origin and meaning of the word and that is was NOT related to the “feared” N-word.
Wasn’t “nigardly” was it.
I may respond later once I’m done cracking up!
Oh, good grief!
He’d be a dead man if he said “niggardly”.
This Meme I saw recently helps describe our current ‘era of idiocy’.
1950: “I bet in 70 years we’ll have flying cars!”
2020: “This syrup is racist.”
Beat me by 17 seconds
You guys are good!
This is almost as stupid as the time the press got hysterical about somebody using the word “niggardly.” Illiterates all.
I recall that incident, too. I think he was ultimately offered his job back, don’t know if he took it. I also remember some push back from the activist left that it didn’t matter what the word really meant, but what people thought it meant. Madness celebrating ignorance.
Next thing you know, folks, who live in Niagara on both sides of the border are going to be told they need to change the name of their county, towns, the river, and the falls. :P
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