Just another example of everybody thinking everyone is against them nowadays. Grow up people, and stop being over sensitive. This is one of my favorite subjects to "discuss" with people.
SAWgunner
Artists Under Attack, Muslims Against Advertising
Fox News
Monday, February 07, 2005
By Scott Norvell
March 29, 2004
A professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas may be punished because he offended one of his students by saying in a lesson on economic planning that homosexuals tend to plan less for the future than other groups, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Hans Hoppe, described as a conservative libertarian economist with 20 years experience at UNLV, says that during the lesson he gave several examples of groups that tend not to plan for the future, among them the very young, the very old, childless couples and homosexuals. He said discussion of homosexuals took up about 90 seconds of a 75-minute lecture.
Within days of the lecture a student had lodged an informal complaint about its content. The university is now threatening Hoppe with a letter of reprimand and wants him to give up his next pay increase.
Hoppe is fighting back, with the help of the ACLU. It is not his job, he said, to consider how a student might feel about economic theories.
"Our task is to teach what we consider to be right," he said. The offended student, he said, should have been told to "grow up."
More Sensitive Students
A teacher in Grand Rapids, Mich., who assigned a story with racial slurs in it in a lesson about racial intolerance, has been suspended and may lose her job following complaints from parents, reports the Associated Press
Patricia Bouwhuis and her seventh grade students read aloud from "Telephone Man," a story about a white boy overcoming the racial prejudices he learned from his father. The story ends with a black student saving the boy from being beat up by a Chinese karate gang.
Hazel Lewis, president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the story "trash" and said Bouwhuis should be fired.
Um ... No it Shouldn't
For a few weeks now, Muslims in the UK have been complaining about and vandalizing billboards in their neighborhoods featuring scantily clad women because the show of skin offends them.
Of particular concern are posters for the show Desperate Housewives, which show more cleavage than the locals in some parts of East London would like. A group called Muslims Against Advertising has deemed them offensive and encouraged people to tear them down or deface them.
Speaking to the the Indo-Asian News Service, Ahmed Shiekh of the Muslim Association of Britain said the issue is not one of free speech "because freedom of speech should end when you offend others."
How Not to Respond
Latino students at the University of North Texas are outraged and offended and demanding something "be done" about a Young Conservatives PR stunt called "Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day," reports the Denton Record-Chronicle.
For the stunt, the Young Conservatives wore bright orange shirts that read "Illegal Immigrant" on the front and "Catch me if U can" on the back. Passers-by were encouraged to track them down around campus and win a prize.
Some Latino students said the exercise caused them great pain and humiliation and amounted to hate speech. They said the dean should not have allowed the conservatives access to the campus free speech zone.
"If it's going to offend and hurt people, something should be done," said Pricila Cardenas, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens on campus.
How To Respond
At the University of Pennsylvania, a professor who wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal suggesting that African-Americans should take responsibility for the disparities between blacks and whites in America rather than regarding themselves as the victims of racism is generating controversy but no fireworks, reports the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Instead of prompting calls for her dismissal or generating mass protests, the piece by Amy Wax, titled "Some Truth About Black Disadvantage," is generating
. discussion.
Nakia Thomas, a law student and vice president of the Black Law Students Association, says the group has no plans for an "official" response. "I definitely think when there's more discourse, it's better for everyone involved," Thomas said.
And That's Probably Not Hyperbole
The New York Times says the threat to artists in Holland from Muslim extremists is the worst that country has endured since the Nazi occupation during World War II.
The countrys main film festival in Rotterdam had to cancel a showing of Theo Van Goghs documentary denouncing violence against Muslim women following threats from irate Muslims.
And in Amsterdam, a Moroccan-Dutch painter was forced into hiding after a show of his work featuring works critical of "hate imams" prompted death threats.
But Of Course!
The bright lights at Harvard University have identified another reason for low-performing people to blame society for their problems and not themselves: "stereotype threat."
A press release from the Harvard Mental Health Letter explains that the condition arises when "members of a stereotyped group risk doing something that conforms to the dominant culture's typecasting. If their performance coincides even slightly with a demeaning belief, they may be reduced to that stereotype, either in the minds of others or in their own minds."
The condition, say the good doctors at Harvard, can lead to anxiety-provoking self-consciousness that can deter achievement.
And thankfully, they have suggested solutions. Among them: encourage awareness among the subjects that its society's fault and not theirs, and, of course, provide plenty of counseling by trained mental health professionals.
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