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[Bauglir]

I assume the Jews, at least.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Martin Luther was a bit beyond the norm:

"[Jews are a] base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth." "[Jews are] full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine,"..."[the synagogue is a] incorrigible whore and an evil slut".

He essentially advocated that the Christians of Europe do everything in their power to either kill the Jews or force them to become Christians, which wasn't normal. Most rulers of the time hardly saw the Jews as equal, but weren't out to destroy them.

[Sirus]

dispatch
home is west
nebraska is east
y u send me to nebraska when im supposed to be home in a few days
dispatch staaaaaaahp

[aenri]

Isn't racism label thrown around too much?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/26/prof-corrects-minority-students-capitalization-is-accused-of-racism/

[Graknorke]

Isn't racism label thrown around too much?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/26/prof-corrects-minority-students-capitalization-is-accused-of-racism/

I'm reasonably sure that Tumblr sprung a leak.

[Vector]

If they're wrong, I'm not surprised they'd jump to conclusions given the comments on that article.

[nenjin]

Rust told one student that she should not capitalize the word “indigenous” in her papers. This correction was ideologically-motivated, according to Watson.

Holy shit. That is some PC-Jitsu right there. You could right any entire term paper around that concept. *slow clap*

And yeah. The top comment is basically the White Male Counter. Ironic how they're willing to look at the one statistic that serves their argument while not looking at the other statistic that actually matters in America: wealth.

[AlleeCat]

Um, the correction was not ideological...
The word indigenous is not a proper noun, and therefor should not be capitalized. It's not racism, it's proper English you twat.

[Vector]

Who decides what is proper English and what isn't?

For example, it was the most proper English--the standard, for a long time--to refer to a woman as Mrs. John Smith and entirely remove her name.  People began to change what they were doing and now this is not so common.  The language has become more gender-neutral.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I swear, the most ridiculous stories come out of UCLA.

[Vector]

Anyway, just to be clear, I really don't have an opinion either way.  I feel like the reporting wasn't detailed enough for me to actually understand what happened, and usually, in my experience, people with those sorts of complaints (out in real life, not, you know, tumblr) have at least something they were picking up on.  But because of the tilt of the article, I don't feel like I could determine what that was.

[Helgoland]

Probably just people not getting along, and using ideology as a vehicle to escalate the conflict. But yeah, that article was awfully shallow - there's no way to assign blame with that little information.

[nenjin]

As always, it's a question of malice. It's incredibly hard to prove. But I don't know any of the statistical information about graduation rates or grading in relation to people of color in California. (Something a good article would have provided...)

But really, I have to give props to that student's refutation of their profession's correction. Aren't colleges supposed to train critical thinking skills to foster new thinking, and encourage rigorous debate? I'd say she's a fine product of that system.

The linked article in that one goes into more detail. Apparently a professor grabbed the arm of one student during a heated argument to calm it down, a gigantic no-no.

[Graknorke]

But really, I have to give props to that student's refutation of their profession's correction. Aren't colleges supposed to train critical thinking skills to foster new thinking, and encourage rigorous debate? I'd say she's a fine product of that system.

Only if there was an actual explanation of how that correction was ideologically based. And if there was one it wasn't reported on.

[Vector]

Because using "indigenous" as a proper collective noun recognizes the collective experience of indigenous peoples in reference to colonialism.  That's what they're playing on--what once just meant "the people living here" has come to gain a group identity through common experiences of oppression.  Hence a collective proper noun, like you would for any culture forged of group experience.  It is a political decision, and I'm sure I'm explaining this badly but I can't find any references from an actual scholar of the subject at the moment.