{"id":18624,"date":"2021-10-28T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2021-10-28T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T07:33:09","slug":"quick-takes-banned-words-in-academia-freedom-rigor-china-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/28\/quick-takes-banned-words-in-academia-freedom-rigor-china-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Banned Words In Academia: Freedom; Rigor; China Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Shut up, they explained!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gnpym6bTcF0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The word \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-removes-freedom-from-id-cards-after-petition-says-the-word-harms-black-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freedom<\/a>\u201d is racist violence, or something\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA private university named after a founding father has changed the name of student identification cards following a petition that said their nomenclature was harmful to minority students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA spokesperson for Robert Morris University disputes, however, that the two-week-old Change.org petition was the impetus for the change from \u2018Freedom Card\u2019 to \u2018RMU ID Card.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStudent Melanie Hall created the petition, which claims racial minorities are 24 percent of the student population at the Pittsburgh school. Like many names on campus, the Freedom Card refers to the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018This poorly named form of identification has made minority students (black students in particular) feel like we are being dehumanized,\u2019 the petition reads: \u2018Gifting us with IDs that grant us our \u2018freedom\u2019 is of extremely poor taste.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The word \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/its-time-to-cancel-the-word-rigor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rigor<\/a>\u201d is discriminatory because it suggests that people who don\u2019t get into college and pass scholastically rigorous classes aren\u2019t smart or capable as those who do.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFar too many faculty members still think a challenging course should be like an obstacle race:You, as the instructor, set up the tasks and each student has to finish them (or not) to a certain standard and within a set time. If only a few students can do it, that means the course is rigorous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019re not in that camp. Lately we\u2019ve been struck by recent conversations around rigor and grit and impostor syndrome. All three terms lay credit or blame on an individual when often it is the academic system that creates the constructs, and it\u2019s the system we should be questioning when it erects barriers for students to surmount or makes them feel that they don\u2019t belong. It\u2019s time we recognize \u2018rigor\u2019 for the exclusionary concept that it is and for the preferential practices it usually promotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/does-a-professor-have-the-right-to-say-china-virus-at-udallas-the-answer-is-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrongspeak<\/a> <em>will<\/em> be punished.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCountless academics have kept their eyes down and mouths shut as our colleagues have been attacked online or administratively over the things they\u2019ve said or done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNow, cancel culture has come to our campus, University of Dallas. But I will not be silent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe University News, the student-run newspaper, published an article Thursday accusing history Professor William Atto of \u2018misnaming COVID-19\u2019 on his syllabus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe print edition of the article suggested he faced some sort of disciplinary action for it although an updated online version toned down such rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe article was published more than three weeks after the professor was attacked on social media for his choice of words, and reports that \u2018University practice is to refer to this virus as COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 in accord with medical and scientific literature.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe print version, published Thursday, called it a \u2018policy,\u2019 however, and alluded to \u2018disciplinary actions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Banned Words In Academia: Freedom; Rigor; China Virus\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Shut up, they explained!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Shut up, they explained! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/10\/28\/quick-takes-banned-words-in-academia-freedom-rigor-china-virus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[25,24,42,69,48,68],"class_list":["post-18624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-social-justice","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18625,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/18625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}