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A Festivus Miracle posted:Holy poo poo, I didn't realize that these were all the same loving department. Jesus what the gently caress is wrong with SAPD They're cops.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Holy poo poo, I didn't realize that these were all the same loving department. Jesus what the gently caress is wrong with SAPD Found the problem
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Oct 7, 2022 20:30
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 Enforcing the boot of the state doesn't require competence, I know, I'm just kinda stunned how out in the open and flagrant it is in San Antonio. I mean, that dash cam footage is the dude literally going from "hm, cheap gross burger" to attempted murder in less than three minutes. Like hoooooooolllleeeee poo poo that is wild.
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Oct 7, 2022 20:38
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bird food bathtub posted:They probably have an openly, loudly white supremacist gang operating internally? Just going off weight of numbers, I haven't seen proof specifically to that effect. It's just the trend for those agencies. 
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Oct 7, 2022 20:38
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Aren't these the same chucklefucks that laughed at 911 callers from a Biden campaign bus that was being rammed on the highway by a bunch of Trump supporters?
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Oct 7, 2022 20:46
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The bus was chased all the way from San Antonio to Austin, easily a 2+ hour drive passing through multiple cities.
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Oct 7, 2022 21:21
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news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/nyu-professor-fired-maitland-jones-jr-student-petition view- lol, lmao, fire every organic chemistry professor then
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Oct 7, 2022 21:44
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That article links to a NYTimes article about it as well, with some additional context:quote:That was not enough. In 2020, some 30 students out of 475 filed a petition asking for more help, said Dr. Arora, who taught that class with Dr. Jones. “They were really struggling,” he explained. “They didn’t have good internet coverage at home. All sorts of things.” Dude's also 84. I dunno. Hesitant to judge one way or the other, as someone who had a class with an ancient, completely out of touch professor (and a class that similarly dropped from over 20 to just 3 by the end of the semester for being so bad)
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Oct 7, 2022 22:01
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Zamujasa posted:That article links to a NYTimes article about it as well, with some additional context: Yeah. I had a physics class that was like that - taught by the recently emeritus former department head. If you couldn't keep up basically by self-teaching from the book, you were doomed. Classes were useless. IIRC, I got a 65 which curved to a B despite all tests being open book. To be fair, the professor was a really nice guy and apparently has done a lot in terms of encouraging and funding minorities in STEM. Just a very poor teacher. One of the many toxicities of the culture of academia is a huge focus on publishing and research. Oh you want to talk about how great your teaching is? Off to adjunct-dom to you, enjoy $10k/year, no benefits, and membership in a permanent underclass.
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Oct 7, 2022 22:49
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So I teach grad courses, and I'm getting a PhD in Education Policy and Curriculum development stuff, and the gist of the NYU story is: 1. OrgChem, like a lot of "feeder" classes for premed and other highly competitive majors, is designed with the idea to weed out people who won't make it in higher grade level courses 2. There's a LOT of baked-in racism in this model. There's a shortage of medical doctors and an acute under-representation of Latinx, black, and other underprivileged minority groups because they don't have the same academic traditions as other demographics to grind through the weed-out classes. 3. College-level students not having "internet at home" is kind of a red herring-- most courses are designed so that you need to use school licenses/computers to get it done. Disregard this part of the story, it's more of an issue in K-12 4. The professor is a sacrificial goat for the school here, they're going to keep the weeding-out programs in place but this dude was on the administration's chopping block. 5. The trick for making sure that higher grade level classes are available for those who are both motivated and qualified to take them is to expand offerings and offer additional tutoring, which cuts into the bottom line of administrators who don't like that. In short: the professor was on borrowed time; the department designs the class to have a high failure rate, and they're going to make a big deal of making things more "equitable" but continue doing the same administrative practices in a slightly less obvious manner.
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Oct 7, 2022 23:53
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Please don’t use the term latinx. It’s not a term we actually use in practice. Thank you and sorry for the disruption. Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1285916 https://www.axios.com/2022/01/04/the-rise-and-fall-latinx-latino-hispanic https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/388532/controversy-term-latinx-public-opinion-context.aspx
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Oct 8, 2022 00:18
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I like that the former guy has the same forced cheesy smile has a friend I grew up with who is now In. That's probably what you get when Fred beats the happiness out of you to make you learn about being tough or something.
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Oct 8, 2022 00:23
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TheWeedNumber posted:Please don’t use the term latinx. It’s not a term we actually use in practice. Thank you and sorry for the disruption. What's the preferred term that includes both male, female and transgender people of Latin descent?
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Oct 8, 2022 00:25
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Kesper North posted:What's the preferred term that includes both male, female and transgender people of Latin descent? Latine is another attempt that’s more gramatically correct but, if I had to guess, you wouldn’t use that either. You’d probably pick either Latino or Latina. I’d say Latine would be better though if it catches on. The point I’m making is that none of these alternatives have caught on, if folks are even aware of them in the first place, and that seems to be reflected in the polls at least at first glance.
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Oct 8, 2022 00:29
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It's not up to non-speakers to strip gender from an inherently gendered language. It's a necessary feature for subject verb agreement and for having complex sentences make sense.
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Oct 8, 2022 00:35
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Maybe everyone should decide on a better word before retiring the current word?
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Oct 8, 2022 00:37
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Yeah I have no agenda here, I am just wondering what nonbinary Latin folk use. Gender is not inherently binary, no matter how hard languages try to make it so.
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Oct 8, 2022 00:37
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Blind Rasputin posted:Maybe everyone should decide on a better word before retiring the current word? Look, NPR told me that Latinx is better and they are experts in what white middle class liberals should do.
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Oct 8, 2022 00:43
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Holy poo poo, I didn't realize that these were all the same loving department. Jesus what the gently caress is wrong with SAPD The same thing that's wrong with every law enforcement agency in America?
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Oct 8, 2022 00:45
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Blind Rasputin posted:Maybe everyone should decide on a better word before retiring the current word? Yeah! These latinx need to pipe down! I'm trying to be considerate here!!
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Oct 8, 2022 00:52
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TheWeedNumber posted:Please don’t use the term latinx. It’s not a term we actually use in practice. Thank you and sorry for the disruption. E: there is of course, literally no other appropriate use of the term outside of an inclusive population metric in stuff like education Policy and statistical representation. Immanentized fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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Oct 8, 2022 00:53
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Stultus Maximus posted:Look, NPR told me that Latinx is better and they are experts in what white middle class liberals should do. NPR is the only place I hear it.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:08
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:NPR is the only place I hear it. Like a bunch of other crap on liberal leaning media it's a clinical word that gets misappropriated for mass audience consumption. It's literally a research term meant to eliminate bias in speaking towards sampled populations, not general groups of humans.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:11
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Immanentized posted:I'm using it in the appropriate academic/clinical population context in accordance with APA 7 guidance. I'm sorry, APA 7 sounds nuts. this is not how people generally speak or write or even think. from: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/racial-ethnic-minorities quote:The word “Latino” is gendered (i.e., “Latino” is masculine and “Latina” is feminine); the use of the word “Latin@” to mean both Latino and Latina is now widely accepted. keep your @ sign out of my written word
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pmchem posted:I'm sorry, APA 7 sounds nuts. this is not how people generally speak or write or even think. from: You're right, it's how researchers write to eliminate potential bias. I am currently involved with researching the subject matter at hand, so i default to those terms.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:14
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Immanentized posted:Like a bunch of other crap on liberal leaning media it's a clinical word that gets misappropriated for mass audience consumption. It's literally a research term meant to eliminate bias in speaking towards sampled populations, not general groups of humans. I only listen anymore for Wait Wait and sometimes BBC radio at night. It's pledge drive season anyhow, so it's all just pandering right now anyhow.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:15
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:NPR is the only place I hear it. A friend of mine who is Latino and doing a doc on early Spanish language tv in the 1970s said pretty much everyone of those she interviewed loving hate that term.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:19
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TheWeedNumber posted:Please don’t use the term latinx. It’s not a term we actually use in practice. Thank you and sorry for the disruption. rip in piss, awkward "x" crammed onto a word
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Oct 8, 2022 01:22
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Leave it to well-meaning but obtuse intellectuals to create a term attempting to address race and gender but instead creates divisive controversy. A moral Hispanic, if you will. ill show myself out
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Oct 8, 2022 01:24
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Immanentized posted:So I teach grad courses, and I'm getting a PhD in Education Policy and Curriculum development stuff, and the gist of the NYU story is: I'll tag on to this post too, speaking as someone who has also taught grad (and undergrad) courses, but actually in chemistry and has a PhD in chemistry: 1. organic is not designed to 'weed out' people, anywhere, although it's commonly called that by the students. it's just that it's not an easy subject to become proficient in, and quite different than any other prior chemistry or natural sciences course that most students will have ever taken. it's hard. many people are not good at it, for whatever reason to be debated. thus it gets called a weed out course. having taught chemistry courses to undergrads, I can tell you we'd all be more than happy if goddamn everyone earned an "A" because it would make life much easier. 2. guaranteed this was absolutely not a factor in NYU's design of difficulty of the course or lecture content 3/4/5 agreed
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pmchem posted:I'm sorry, APA 7 sounds nuts. this is not how people generally speak or write or even think. from: How do you pronounce "Latin@"?
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Oct 8, 2022 01:38
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So today in Hershel Walker news: - Fired his political director because he believed the director was leaking to the press - Woman he paid to have an abortion later said "well, the relationship exploded because he wanted to pay for a second abortion and I refused and wanted the kid" - Walker has essentially decided on the "I don't know who this woman is" defense, which uh: https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1578545363950395392
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ASAPI posted:Uvalde just suspended their ISD police force. Like, ALL of them. They are requesting State Troopers in the meantime until they can figure out what to do with their force. How is this for a crazy idea. Don't put loving cops in schools.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:How do you pronounce "Latin@"? You don’t, you just pat yourself on the back excessively for being “one of the good ones” and assuage any and all white guilt. Same thing as pumping $9.99 a month to your local NPR station, basically.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:48
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Lemniscate Blue posted:How do you pronounce "Latin@"? Latin-at!
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Zamujasa posted:That article links to a NYTimes article about it as well, with some additional context: Someone in the C‑SPAM New York Times thread has personal knowledge of the guy. quote:oh hey I had this professor. he's really douchey in person quote:nah this guy's exams were hosed. They were basically not doable for anyone. Maybe some organic chem wunderkind who spent years prepping for maitland jones' tests could pull them off. Most students handed in the test booklets half-blank.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Latin-at! 
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Seems to me if you were talking about a hispanic person who was trans you'd refer to them by the gender they identified with? The x seems patronizing and probably worse in that regard oh nooo lol
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Marshal Prolapse posted:A friend of mine who is Latino and doing a doc on early Spanish language tv in the 1970s said pretty much everyone of those she interviewed loving hate that term. I don't have a dog in it either way, but I know the people I always turn to and trust about whether something is a good or bad thing for the english language and its usage would be americans old enough to have been involved in mass media or where old enough to have coherent opinions to be interviewed about tv in the early 1970's
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I really don’t like how vague “Latin” is. Never felt it. Much prefer Chicano myself. Aztec Warrior to my friends and enemies.
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