My Professor Is Problematic

As a college student, I've had to deal with a few professors who have made comments that were racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. and was VERY uncomfortable knowing nothing would be done about it. And I KNOW I'm not alone. This is a space to just get that shit off your chest.

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I remember in my high school history class, the teacher mentioned that America put the Japanese in internment camps and blew it off as excusable because “the Nazis were worse toward the Jews.”

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i go to school that has a lot of ex-military attending and one of my professors said something to the effect of "all i care about is killing those middle easterners" and the whole class cheered and laughed...i mean the shit they get away with

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my journalism professor said she doesn't care about wasting paper, because there are plenty of trees in the world and that deforestation is a lie.

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had a prof for class called the arts and social justice and this straight white guy was the last person you'd want to teach it. he would talk about really graphic things in class just to get everyone riled up and whenever he would talk about racism or anything related to black people he would ask the one poor black girl in the class what she thought and she'd be put on the spot, i felt so bad for her. he also made fun of the idea of patriarchy and heteronormativity

do you mean poor as in financially?

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Had a Japanese Lit professor (white guy weabo) who would assign us readings with women getting raped/beaten/killed. He couldn't understand why all the female students were so uncomfortable with him by the end of the semester. Needless to say we complained about him.

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an intro to philosophy class i took ended up having nothing to do with learning about philosophy. instead my (white male) professor spent the entire semester telling us why racism doesn't exist and feminists are wrong and the wage gap isn't real and women are lesser and blah blah blah. the final exam was basically him asking us to say we agreed with all of his bullshit or he'd fail us.

:/

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As someone in the deaf community, we don't like to see people call is disable. We are proud of a deafness, but we don't consider ourselves disabled. Many of us find it rude. Now I can see where you come from, but for deaf people, you just don't say disabled.

EDIT: I looked back at one of the submissions, sorry about that. I don’t share the opinion, I only posted it. But thank you for this.

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"everyone's a little crazy, especially the ladies" - my "progressive" white boy sociology teacher

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not a professor but a high school choir teacher... told an all-female ensemble that we had to sing more "womanly" by acting more mature and being more attractive to men, which is what we should all strive for. this in a long line of outrageously sexist and heteronormative comments in that class.

Gross

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I took a class on Deaf Culture last year & had to sit through the hearing & able-bodied prof talk about how it's wrong to say deaf people are disabled bc, and yes this is a direct quote: "Disabled is an inherently bad word. Deaf people get along just fine in their lives, so they are not disabled." As a physically disabled student who gets along just fine on my own too, I about hit the roof hearing that ableist bullshit.

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I am fully Canadian, and only know English, But because of my heritage I'm darker. Anyways, I'm in a human rights class (go figure) and my prof pulled me aside and said "I've noticed that the assignments your handing in, are unclear and don't make sense. I was wondering if I needed any help with speaking and developing your English?." as soon as I started speaking she apologized but My English prof has no fucking problem with anything I hand in??? So I'm still confused

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So who are all the people asking posting about that Annie girl? And why is she so popular?

I screenshotted her racist tweets and I guess people saw it

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My friend and I have been trying to get professors at school to ask everyone for their pronouns (y'know, to make trans people more comfortable and normalize the idea of asking others what their pronouns are). One professor we have does ask, but she makes a point to say "you don't have to answer if it doesn't apply to you!!!!" making the only trans person in class feel very awkward.

:(

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My intro to theatre prof is a 29 yr old white cis gay man and he spent the entire unit on black theatre going on and on trying to spare his white guilt and then he started on that "if black people didn't play into the angry black person stereotype then maybe things would be better :)" like... Excuse me? This man is on my last damn nerve fr. A couple weeks ago he was complaining abt how people call him racist and sexist and he was like "I'm gay!" as if that was supposed to make a difference?? smh

Jesus

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That Mark Lamont vine... What did the white guy say after lol

Idk I still haven't seen the whole thing. It's on YouTube probably

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Marc Lamont Hill, “CNN’s The ‘N’ Word Debate”

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"Learning another language is useless because you’ll never have to use it.  Except for Spanish, of course, because you need to know what those people might be saying about you."

—-English teacher in Texas, when I said I was interested in learning French