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04-12-2017, 08:14 PM
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Clemson U.’s Diversity Training Says Being Late Is Okay Because Some Cultures Believe Time Is Relative
"Time may be considered precise or fluid depending on the culture."
Robby Soave Apr. 10, 2017 2:49 pm
Clemson University's $25,000 diversity initiative asks professors to endorse a novel opinion about punctuality: it's wrong, and probably colonialist, to expect people to show up to a meeting on time.
The administration at the public university in South Carolina has encouraged all faculty and staff members to complete an online training course, "Diversity Benefits for Higher Education," which is produced by a company called Workplace Answers.
The training presents faculty members with several hypothetical scenarios. In one scenario, a fictional character named Alejandro schedules a 9:00 a.m. meeting for visiting professors and students (one assumes these people are foreign). Some arrive early, others arrive 10 minutes late. What should Alejandro do? Participants are given three options:
"Alejandro should recognize and acknowledge cultural differences with ease and respect," the module asserts. "Time may be considered precise or fluid depending on the culture."
The training module then asks participants to consider that Alejandro's "cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other."
Time. It's all relative, man.
Note that Clemson would never actually endorse an across-the-board policy that all cultural traditions were equally valid. In some cultures, it's common to smoke indoors: would Clemson ever consider relaxing its total campus-wide ban on tobacco products in the name of diversity and tolerance? I thought not.
Hypocrisy aside, it's frankly bizarre to watch a university decide that it's faculty shouldn't be making any judgments about different cultural traditions. Obviously, punctuality is more socially desirable than tardiness, and a professor has every right to endorse a culture that prefers the former to the latter.
The training also presents a scenario where a person, "Maxine," expresses skepticism about diversity training, likening it to political correctness run amok. The correct answer here is to challenge Maxine and assert that diversity training is valuable and necessary, according to the module (which is awfully convenient and seems like a conflict of interest on the part of the training's creators).
Another portion of the training explains that freedom of speech and academic freedom have limits—and those limits involve language that hurts other people, particularly members of protected groups.
Clemson Chief Diversity Officer Lee Gill—who was paid $185,000 last year, according to The Tiger Town Observer—did not respond to a request for comment.
A public university can make diversity training available to its staff members. But it shouldn't require them to endorse opinions they might not agree with. It certainly shouldn't instruct them to ignore students who are routinely late to class as part of some misguided attempt to never offend anyone. Sometimes, objective reality sort of matters.
Clemson U.?s Diversity Training Says Being Late Is Okay Because Some Cultures Believe Time Is Relative - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"Time may be considered precise or fluid depending on the culture."
Robby Soave Apr. 10, 2017 2:49 pm
Clemson University's $25,000 diversity initiative asks professors to endorse a novel opinion about punctuality: it's wrong, and probably colonialist, to expect people to show up to a meeting on time.
The administration at the public university in South Carolina has encouraged all faculty and staff members to complete an online training course, "Diversity Benefits for Higher Education," which is produced by a company called Workplace Answers.
The training presents faculty members with several hypothetical scenarios. In one scenario, a fictional character named Alejandro schedules a 9:00 a.m. meeting for visiting professors and students (one assumes these people are foreign). Some arrive early, others arrive 10 minutes late. What should Alejandro do? Participants are given three options:
Politely ask the second group to apologize
Explain "In our country 9:00 AM means 9:00 AM."
As the meeting organizer, he should recognize cultural differences that may impact the meeting and adjust accordingly.
The third answer, evidently, is the correct one—at least from the perspective of the training module—according to Campus Reform.Explain "In our country 9:00 AM means 9:00 AM."
As the meeting organizer, he should recognize cultural differences that may impact the meeting and adjust accordingly.
"Alejandro should recognize and acknowledge cultural differences with ease and respect," the module asserts. "Time may be considered precise or fluid depending on the culture."
The training module then asks participants to consider that Alejandro's "cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other."
Time. It's all relative, man.
Note that Clemson would never actually endorse an across-the-board policy that all cultural traditions were equally valid. In some cultures, it's common to smoke indoors: would Clemson ever consider relaxing its total campus-wide ban on tobacco products in the name of diversity and tolerance? I thought not.
Hypocrisy aside, it's frankly bizarre to watch a university decide that it's faculty shouldn't be making any judgments about different cultural traditions. Obviously, punctuality is more socially desirable than tardiness, and a professor has every right to endorse a culture that prefers the former to the latter.
The training also presents a scenario where a person, "Maxine," expresses skepticism about diversity training, likening it to political correctness run amok. The correct answer here is to challenge Maxine and assert that diversity training is valuable and necessary, according to the module (which is awfully convenient and seems like a conflict of interest on the part of the training's creators).
Another portion of the training explains that freedom of speech and academic freedom have limits—and those limits involve language that hurts other people, particularly members of protected groups.
Clemson Chief Diversity Officer Lee Gill—who was paid $185,000 last year, according to The Tiger Town Observer—did not respond to a request for comment.
A public university can make diversity training available to its staff members. But it shouldn't require them to endorse opinions they might not agree with. It certainly shouldn't instruct them to ignore students who are routinely late to class as part of some misguided attempt to never offend anyone. Sometimes, objective reality sort of matters.
Clemson U.?s Diversity Training Says Being Late Is Okay Because Some Cultures Believe Time Is Relative - Hit & Run : Reason.com
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04-12-2017, 10:17 PM
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So I wonder if that Diversity professor would be chill with receiving a paycheck whenever the university got around to it, cuz yo, time is relative n'all, or if the university itself would likewise be chill with students paying their tuition whenever their culture felt it was appropriate for them to do so?
Such bullshit.
Such bullshit.
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04-13-2017, 02:25 PM
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kids will be kids*
NEW PBS KIDS SERIES “DYING TO BE A MARTYR” EXPLORES THE STRUGGLE OF BEING A TERRORIST
PBS has a lesson plan which seems to attempt to humanize suicide bombers to school children with a set of creepy videos…
PBS, via PBS Learning Media for Kids, released a lesson plan titled Dying to be a Martyr. In this lesson plan, which PBS says is okay for students grades 9-12, they have three videos about the ‘struggle’ of Palestinian terrorists. This type of material may be a perfect example of why public broadcasters are having to grovel at Trump’s feet so he doesn’t slash all of their funding. PBS has an in depth classroom assignment for students to go along with the videos and it requires that the teacher confirm that the student basically understands and identifies with the struggle of Palestinian terrorists. The lesson goes on to imply that the root cause of Islamic terrorism against Israel is due to Israel being a Jewish state.This is how PBS describes the videos:
In a series of unique, powerful, and revealing interviews from inside Israeli prisons, this film examines the minds of Palestinian suicide bombers. Three failed suicide bombers, one recruiter, and one bomb builder captured by Israeli security forces speak openly of their training, motivation, operational methodology, and profound belief in the idea of entering paradise by becoming a shahid, a martyr killed in the cause of Islam. They talk of their hatred of Jews and Israel, their determination to die and personal motivations that have influenced them — including a failed love, a sense of personal revenge, the frustration of living under Israeli occupation, and envy for the prosperous Israeli style of life.
The first video, called Israel and Palestine, is about two Palestinian terrorists or ‘liberators’ if you’re PBS…
The history of the conflict in the Middle East can be traced back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in which the British government stated its support for a Jewish state on the land of Palestine. Unrest soon followed and the conflict continues to this day. In this video segment from Wide Angle, two young Palestinians explain their belief in the liberation of their homeland.
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04-13-2017, 02:37 PM
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I love how the conflict in the Middle East dates ALL THE WAY BACK to......1917......okay PBS. Please go home, you're drunk.
EDIT: I would like to add that I may not have anything against this videos series as a whole since I think it is important to see both sides in order to empathize. Many of these young kids that are indoctrinated into this **** have no education or hope for a better life. They grew up in war zones and have seen friends and family die. Its no mystery to me why they are easily radicalized. However, let's not push it over the top by framing the whole situation from some arbitrary pivot point in a multi-thousand year struggle.
EDIT: I would like to add that I may not have anything against this videos series as a whole since I think it is important to see both sides in order to empathize. Many of these young kids that are indoctrinated into this **** have no education or hope for a better life. They grew up in war zones and have seen friends and family die. Its no mystery to me why they are easily radicalized. However, let's not push it over the top by framing the whole situation from some arbitrary pivot point in a multi-thousand year struggle.
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04-13-2017, 05:04 PM
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I love how the conflict in the Middle East dates ALL THE WAY BACK to......1917......okay PBS. Please go home, you're drunk.
EDIT: I would like to add that I may not have anything against this videos series as a whole since I think it is important to see both sides in order to empathize. Many of these young kids that are indoctrinated into this **** have no education or hope for a better life. They grew up in war zones and have seen friends and family die. Its no mystery to me why they are easily radicalized. However, let's not push it over the top by framing the whole situation from some arbitrary pivot point in a multi-thousand year struggle.
EDIT: I would like to add that I may not have anything against this videos series as a whole since I think it is important to see both sides in order to empathize. Many of these young kids that are indoctrinated into this **** have no education or hope for a better life. They grew up in war zones and have seen friends and family die. Its no mystery to me why they are easily radicalized. However, let's not push it over the top by framing the whole situation from some arbitrary pivot point in a multi-thousand year struggle.
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04-16-2017, 09:17 AM
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scuffle at a free speech rally.
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04-18-2017, 11:57 AM
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Trump tax march: Thousands urge president to release finances - BBC News
Real News.
Protests have been taking place in more than 150 locations across the United States to call on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.
Mr Trump broke a long-held tradition by not releasing his paperwork during his presidential campaign.
His critics want to know who he has been dealing with and if there are any conflicts of interest.
At least 21 people were arrested in Berkeley, California, in clashes between Trump opponents and supporters.
There is no law requiring presidents to release their tax returns, but Mr Trump has found himself under public pressure and some information from a 2005 tax return was leaked to the media last month.
The protests were timed to coincide with the traditional mid-April deadline for Americans to file their tax returns.
Mr Trump broke a long-held tradition by not releasing his paperwork during his presidential campaign.
His critics want to know who he has been dealing with and if there are any conflicts of interest.
At least 21 people were arrested in Berkeley, California, in clashes between Trump opponents and supporters.
There is no law requiring presidents to release their tax returns, but Mr Trump has found himself under public pressure and some information from a 2005 tax return was leaked to the media last month.
The protests were timed to coincide with the traditional mid-April deadline for Americans to file their tax returns.
Real News.
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04-19-2017, 09:14 AM
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you get what you pad for?
The class of around 20 students decided to go with the easier option to create a class project and chose to organize a protest at ASU’s library. The reason for the protest, other than skipping the exam, was President Trump.
Demonstrating against his policies, which included The Wall and deportation, the class created a wall of their own by making signs and standing shoulder to shoulder on campus.
when people raised eyebrows and concerns, the professor cleared things up for us:
A professor at Arizona State University allowed her students to attend an Anti-Trump protest as a way to dodge an exam, according to reports.
Professor Angeles Maldonado, a professor of Global Politics of Human Rights, gave her students the option to create a ‘class project’ instead of taking a test, The Arizona Republic reports.The class of around 20 students decided to go with the easier option to create a class project and chose to organize a protest at ASU’s library. The reason for the protest, other than skipping the exam, was President Trump.
Demonstrating against his policies, which included The Wall and deportation, the class created a wall of their own by making signs and standing shoulder to shoulder on campus.
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04-19-2017, 09:24 AM
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The newest Silicon Valley perk? Paid time off to protest Trump.
By Abha Bhattarai April 18 at 3:59 PM
A number of protests are planned for International Workers’ Day on May 1. (Darren Ornitz/Reuters)
Silicon Valley firms have long been known for offering a litany of employee perks: home-cooked lunches, free massages, climbing walls and dog-friendly offices.
Now some are adding yet another incentive to attract — and retain — workers: paid time off to protest.
Fauna, a San Francisco-based database start-up, recently began allowing its 13 employees to take unlimited paid leave to participate in rallies, vote, write letters to elected officials and take part in other civic activities. Before February, employees could take time off on an as-needed basis. But the political climate — and polarization — after President Trump’s inauguration called for more defined measures, said Amna Pervez, director of recruiting and retention.
“Since there’s been such a divide in our country, we felt we should be very explicit about our policy,” Pervez said, adding that the company also provides unlimited vacation time. “We want our employees to know that we absolutely support the betterment of our country. People can take whatever they feel like they need to make a meaningful difference.”
A number of other start-ups, including Turbine Labs, Buoyant and Jelly Industries, have signed on to do the same. The new policies come as technology firms and other companies take a stand against the Trump administration’s plan to tighten restrictions for foreign workers. On Tuesday, Trump was expected to sign an executive order that would impose new restrictions on H1-B visas, a type of temporary work visa often used by firms to recruit and employ highly skilled workers.
“If you’re a tech company, taking a pro-immigration stand is not exactly a bold move,” said Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School. “When there’s a tight labor market and companies are fighting for programmers, this is a way to say, ‘See? We’re here to support you.’ ”
Facebook, for example, is allowing its employees to take time off to participate in pro-immigration rallies on May 1. The company, which relies heavily on foreign workers, informed employees and contractors last week that they would not be penalized for missing work to protest, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.
“At Facebook, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where employees feel comfortable expressing their opinions and speaking up about issues that are important to them,” a company spokesman said in an email. “We support our people in recognizing International Workers’ Day and other efforts to raise awareness for safe and equitable employment conditions.”
Facebook could be particularly hard-hit by any changes the Trump administration makes to H-1B visa policies. More than 15 percent of its employees used temporary work visas last year — a higher percentage than at Google, Apple, Amazon or Microsoft, according to a Reuters analysis of U.S. Labor Department filings.
At Atipica, a software start-up in San Francisco, four of the company’s five U.S.-based workers are immigrants. Founder Laura Gómez, who is from Mexico, said it was a “no-brainer” to give workers paid leave to make their voices heard.
“At this point in our political reality, it’s really, really important to allow my employees to do something that not only affects them, but also the direction of our country,” she said. “This is what democracy looks like: people having the freedom to stand up for what they believe in.”
There are some ground rules, though: no violence, or activities that make others feel threatened.
“We will define this as we grow,” Gómez said. “But my hope is that policies like this become the norm. When Google began giving out free lunches, everyone else followed. Why should this be any different?”
For her part, Gómez said, she plans to participate in a pro-immigration march on May 1.
“I’ll be out there,” she said. “And hopefully the rest of the company will, too.”
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