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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 1, 2011 10:09:55 GMT 1
I just read about a teacher who has been severely reprimanded (I think that might have entailed castration and public display of said removed gonads) for racism at a school
A kid could not remember the colour coding for resistors, so the teacher gave him the mnemonic
***** Boys Rape Our Young Girls Beautiful Virgins Getting Worried
Which transcribes as Black (0), Brown (1), Red(2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Violet (6), Grey (7), White (8)
As apprentices we always used that mnemonic when working with resistors -perhaps that is why apprenticeships were abolished?
Still, I'll bet that kid never again has problems with resistor colour codes eh?
To every (black?) cloud, a silver lining!
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 1, 2011 10:40:52 GMT 1
I just read about a teacher who has been severely reprimanded (I think that might have entailed castration and public display of said removed gonads) for racism at a school A kid could not remember the colour coding for resistors, so the teacher gave him the mnemonic ***** Boys Rape Our Young Girls Beautiful Virgins Getting Worried Which transcribes as Black (0), Brown (1), Red(2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Violet (6), Grey (7), White (8) As apprentices we always used that mnemonic when working with resistors -perhaps that is why apprenticeships were abolished? Still, I'll bet that kid never again has problems with resistor colour codes eh? To every (black?) cloud, a silver lining! The fact is nay, that using striking images in mnemonic systems is essential for them to work effectively, as you well know, so this seems yet another barmy knee-jerk reaction to what is perceived as a sexist remark when in point of fact it is no such thing. Political correctness is fast becoming a social sickness and those balless politicians and administrators who go along with it are partly to blame.
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Post by jean on Mar 1, 2011 10:48:32 GMT 1
The racism is worse that the sexism really, abacus.
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 1, 2011 11:00:42 GMT 1
The racism is worse that the sexism really, abacus. What are you talking about?
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Post by jean on Mar 1, 2011 11:04:33 GMT 1
What letters do you think the asterisks stand for?
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 1, 2011 11:10:31 GMT 1
What letters do you think the asterisks stand for? I don't know, surely that is for the person using the mnemonic to decide.
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Post by jean on Mar 1, 2011 11:18:56 GMT 1
The person using the mnemonic was quite specific: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360623/Racist-rape-rhyme-teacher-James-Hersey-guilty-misconduct-Birmingham.html?ITO=1490Most of the comments on the article were pretty much what you'd expect in that context, but this one is worth thinking about: 'Of course it's racist - black boys have enough on their plates without this sort of abuse. Mnemonics have their place and I know a couple that are totally inappropriate but effective. Common sense tells me that people might be offended by them and as a teacher, he should have had more sense. PC is actually a case of recognising that people might be offended by what you say. Would he have said this to a black kid? But of course, white middle class males (typical DM readership) will never know what it is like to suffer intolerance and prejudice as you have all the advantages your background offers so you can just laugh it off as "PC gone mad"'.
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Post by speakertoanimals on Mar 1, 2011 14:20:43 GMT 1
The version my missue learnt in the Navy was worse that either of the ones quoted here, involving both race and bastards. And of course refers historically to many of the racial myths perpetuated about black men in america and in victorian britain. Also, accords with idea about black men being more animal-like, closer to nature, and need I make it totally obvious given the myths in pornography about size of genitalia?
And oddly enough, seem to be resurfacing here in another form, with claims about pakistani men targeting young white girls*. We have the same very obvious distinction between the civilized white man, and the lascivious natives. Same myths we used in the days of the Raj, to keep a distance between the great civilized empire-builders, and the dusky natives. And sadly the same sort of nonsense you can sometimes hear when it comes to other americans talking about native americans, or australians talking about aborigines.
* I KNOW there are real cases, but it's going from particular cases, arguments about their prevalence, which can get awfully close to just repeating these same ole sterotypes about groups we feel threatened by. They're after OUR women you know.....................
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Post by carnyx on Mar 1, 2011 23:02:30 GMT 1
Speaking as a White Male, I do not regard them as being somehow 'our' women at all.
And if it is a case of requiring relief from their feelings of being threatened, that moral responsibility has been arrogated by their gender.
So, over to you, STA. Your gender has the responsibility now. Or, would you rather continue to tell these women (which of course include young FMG targets) that of course they face a greater danger from 'stereotyping'?
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