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ASU student objects to sensitivity exercise (Assigned the identity of a gay Hispanic)
East Valley Tribune (Arizona) ^ | 1/21/07 | David Discobing

Posted on 01/29/2007 6:23:08 PM PST by paulat

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1 posted on 01/29/2007 6:23:10 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

Oh, thank goodness. I thought ASU stood for "Appalachian State U."

Not that you couldn't get a goofball assignment there, of course, but at least it wasn't this one :-).


2 posted on 01/29/2007 6:25:03 PM PST by Tax-chick ("It is my life's labor to bring Christ to souls and souls to Christ through word and example.")
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And they're wondering why the male University population is down....


3 posted on 01/29/2007 6:28:52 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

ASU should get sued.


4 posted on 01/29/2007 6:30:13 PM PST by lormand (Chuck Hagel - the Jihad's favorite RINO)
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To: Tax-chick
When these role-playing games are entirely voluntary, and carefully designed, they can be interesting and useful. When they are mandatory (and I consider when it's required for a job mandatory), they're simply divisive and wrong.

Myself, I'd have chosen homeless and unemployed -- it's just a game after all -- and simply blown the whole thing off.

5 posted on 01/29/2007 6:30:25 PM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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When these role-playing games are entirely voluntary, and carefully designed, they can be interesting and useful.

Paid by tax-payers?

6 posted on 01/29/2007 6:31:59 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

Wonder what they did with the Muslims?

Or Hispanics fresh from the old country, where Blacks are the lowest kind of human. And many won't even touch a Black. Guess they are afraid it will rub off.

Or Liberals/Lefties of every stripe who...oops, almost forgot they don't have mirrors in the department that came up with this little exercise.


7 posted on 01/29/2007 6:32:37 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Too many morons, so little time.)
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To: paulat

I'd be willing to volunteer as lesbian.


8 posted on 01/29/2007 6:38:13 PM PST by baltoga
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To: oneamericanvoice
Or Hispanics fresh from the old country, where Blacks are the lowest kind of human.

Oprah said once that one day, she will have a show on the bias among blacks among skin color. (I saw the show).

She never has. Wonder if she ever will.

Wonder if, in their role-playing...they pitted light-skinned black against dark-skinned black.

Doubt it.

9 posted on 01/29/2007 6:38:18 PM PST by paulat
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To: baltoga
I'd be willing to volunteer as lesbian.

Sorry...you've got to be an African-Asian-Native American double-amputee attention-deficit lesbian to qualify.

10 posted on 01/29/2007 6:47:09 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

This is America. No one needs a job that bad.


11 posted on 01/29/2007 7:08:06 PM PST by CindyDawg
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"Oprah said once that one day, she will have a show on the bias among blacks among skin color. (I saw the show)."

Maybe you should remind her of that promise. Bet she never does it though.

I had a friend who auditioned for "In Living Color" (remember that show). He was turned down because he wasn't "Black" enough.


12 posted on 01/29/2007 7:15:31 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Too many morons, so little time.)
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To: paulat
Anything the state pays for is not entirely voluntary....

That said, if a bunch of students at a publicly funded university want to engage in one of these things, I suppose I don't have any real objection as they don't use any more university resources than any other legitimate activity. Lots of things done at universities are silly or stupid, some of them turn out to have been worthwhile, others not. That's the marketplace of ideas.

13 posted on 01/29/2007 7:29:21 PM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: paulat

Let's take the sexual orientation out of it and just make him a meth user, like many homosexuals are.

Should the church accept his meth addiction and pretend it is a wonderful trait?


14 posted on 01/29/2007 7:30:52 PM PST by weegee (No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
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To: paulat

If it weren't pathetically sad, that story would be hilarious. Alas, there is nothing to laugh at here.


15 posted on 01/29/2007 8:56:23 PM PST by Roberts
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My husband had to do this as a college prof about 18 years ago, when it was pretty unheard of. He'd been in business, decided to switch to teaching. (Lasted for about 1/2 year!!). He said some hispanic activists came and made them take a card for a new identity, etc etc. HE came home FURIOUS, just furious. He is hardly ever that mad. I think if it were now and we were more aware of this hogwash on campus, he would have spoken up or sued. He was just livid.


16 posted on 01/29/2007 9:30:32 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: oneamericanvoice

I was told recently that I need not apply to teach at a High School I had been volunteering at, even tho I am credentialed in that field, because 'they wanted teachers who matched the students' racial backgrounds.' I know I matched the WHITE FEMALE students' backgrounds there. I told them I wouldn't apply to work there, if that were the case, if it was the last job on earth. hahah.


17 posted on 01/29/2007 9:32:57 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K; DBeers
Even an ASU associate professor who specializes in minority relations has raised concerns about the activity.
18 posted on 01/29/2007 10:15:49 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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ASU student objects to sensitivity exercise



19 posted on 01/29/2007 10:18:33 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: bboop
Obviously you weren't credentialed in indoctrination 101, shame on you.

They sure missed out on a lot of fun if you are the real Betty Boop.

20 posted on 01/29/2007 10:35:18 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story.)
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