Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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gaussian

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48302

Because the word 那个, which is pronounced very close to the N-word, was said by a professor the Dean at UPenn decided the best course of action was to suspend the professor for the transgression of speaking Chinese.

Yes, this is the result of Critical Race Theory. A generation of snowflakes are rewriting our language, and languages of other cultures as well. Don't tell them how you say "You" in korean! Soon entire languages may be banned!

Dear Full-Time MBA Class of 2021,

Thank you for your interest and involvement in the current situation concerning the Class of 2022 and their GSBA-542 experience. This matter is of great importance to all of us. Accordingly, I want to make you aware of the action we are taking. This action is described in the attached email* that was just sent to all students in the Class of 2022.

Sincerely,

Geoff Garrett
Dean

[*see next item below]

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Last Thursday in your GSBA-542 classes, Professor Greg Patton repeated several times a Chinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English. Understandably, this caused great pain and upset among students, and for that I am deeply sorry. It is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students. We must and we will do better.

Professor Marion Philadelphia, Chair of the Department of Business Communications, will take over teaching the remainder of GSBA-542, beginning tomorrow, Tuesday August 25.

Over the coming weeks and months, I have no higher priority than to work with Vice Dean Sharoni Little, Vice Dean Suh-Pyng Ku and the other members of the Marshall leadership team to identify and redress bias, microaggressions, inequities and all forms of systemic racism associated with anyone’s identity throughout our school. We each must grow and learn always to engage respectfully with one another while fostering and exemplifying the knowledge and skills needed to lead and shape our diverse and global world—such as courage, empathy, compassion, advocacy, collaboration, and integrity.

I am deeply saddened by this disturbing episode that has caused such anguish and trauma. What happened cannot be undone. But please know that Sharoni, Suh-Pyng and I along with the entire Full-Time MBA Program team are here to support each of you. We welcome the opportunity to have conversations with any of you individually.

Sincerely,

Geoff Garrett
Dean
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Just remember:

I am deeply saddened by this disturbing episode that has caused such anguish and trauma.
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The anguish and trauma is indelible in the hippocampus.
 
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gaussian said:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48302

Because the word 那个, which is pronounced very close to the N-word, was said by a professor the Dean at UPenn decided the best course of action was to suspend the professor for the transgression of speaking Chinese.

Yes, this is the result of Critical Race Theory. A generation of snowflakes are rewriting our language, and languages of other cultures as well. Don't tell them how you say "You" in korean! Soon entire languages may be banned!




Just remember:



The anguish and trauma is indelible in the hippocampus.
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How long does it take him to figure it out..
 
Bugenhagen said:
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I don't understand. There's several salient arguments on why this is occurring and they all stem from the processes introduced by Critical Race Theory and White Fragility.

Universities while somewhat publically funded are generally powered by endowments. These come from investing institutions (RAND, DoD, Google et al.) and so they have considerable weight when deciding what can and can't be done.

The adoption of CRT and White Fragility in FAANGs and the government has caused a perverse effect of censoring speech. What can you do - there are only two possible, rational but ethically reprehensible, paths:

The dean sees a word that is a proper Chinese utterance/pause and recognizes the word as benign. Knowing students provide copious funds via loans, the prevalence of cancel culture, and grant writing/endowing institutions demand enforcement of CRT, you're forced to write a sappy letter talking about how you'll solve microaggressions and systemic racism. You keep your job at the expense of some lowly untenured associate professor because the alternative is to have your institution protested or even BURNED DOWN by violent radicals with the least damage done being withdrawal of your very important endowment.

OR

The dean truly believes CRT and wishes to control discourse in a university where ideology is supposed to be challenged. You use the lowly untenured associate professor as an example of the unquestioned and unchallenged power of the cultural marxist ideal.


Pick your poison. Either way the purpose of a university becomes deluded further.
 
Bugenhagen said:
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Figure out what? That a word in another language, that has NO racist overtones, nothing what so ever to do with racial slurs might have a similar pronunciation?

How long does it take someone to figure out that everything doesn’t concern them. And that their marginalization and hurt is a product of their own imagination.
 
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