Rant: flamed in class discussion

[UrbanWolf]

who spend time, money, and energy to apply and came here.

Well it turned into a flame war on me and Texans or conservatives in general, because the German lady from California was all "I know those Texas conservative un-educated rednecks will go the border with their shotguns and shoot people near the border of Cali, Mexico and, Tex."
Everyone else were like "OMG, the rednecks deserve to burn!"
I rebutted "You got photo or video of that happening?"
Her response "You have accept their ignorance racist ideal and forgotten your roots, you are not at liberty to talk here!"

The end result was a total flame war on me, like i'm the one pretending to be smart but actually ignorant... I doubt I will get anything higher than a C now, since, well the professor hates me.

Normally the ex-marine guy(Texan) are on the conservative side of arguments, but he didn't show up today. Glad he didn't, he would not liked it one bit.

Fuck this class, rant over.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Ha... at least you didnt get kicked out of CU for calling out the dean.

[Clint45]

Back when I was in university, we'd occasionally have some fuckwit in class, usually an older person with too much time on their hands "auditing" a course for something to do, who would try to monopolize class time whenever they could by lecturing everyone about their ignorant uninformed views on politics or religion. Only once do I recall a "flame war" like what you're describing.

It was an American History course and the discussion was on slavery, which rapidly degraded to "all the white people should piss on their ancestors graves and give blacks everything they own and beg their forgiveness" (and actually that was a foreigner as well, from South America I believe), and the whole classroom (mostly young white women) seemed to agree that white people were really bad and needed to feel guilty. Then this one guy got really pissed off and said, "My grandparents came over from Czechoslovakia and never owned any slaves", whereupon I realized that my great grandparents came over from Ireland in the 1890s, long after slavery, and were dirt poor. This shut everyone up for a few moments, before the foreigner started claiming that we still needed to accept "our share of the blame" due to our "white privilege" . . . if it was a guy saying that I would've kicked his ass.

[T-Giv]

I have also had experience with a similar class in college. Funny you said you will probably get a C at best. No matter what I did on my papers and assignments every single one got a C. I even got an A in every single other class that semester and I never got below a B in high school. I appealed it to the dean and the response I got was that if the instructor feels that my writing is at a C level then that's the grade I will get. Good luck in that gay class. You should just have a bunch of the guys from the forum sit in on lecture one day for backup.

[brianakell]

Wrote a paper on how bombing Japan was a good thing, as we had been reading a book about the bombing. "Prof" gave just enough of a grade I didnt have to take the class again. I still remember the look on his face, 20 years later, and he was red hot! Wanted us to all be sympathetic to what we did to the Japanese. "It's war, we won, we saved thousands of American lives. We did our job well." Was basically the jist of the paper. I think it was supposed to be something like "how I feel about bombing the japanese in ww2"

Had I taken the class now, I would have gone to the dean and explained the situation, the one sidedness, and got the grade bumped up. If I were you, that's exactly what I would do. And explain how the prof is trying to change your opinion, and running the class with no data, no facts, just emotion and opinion. Heck youve got nothing to loose, prof hates you already!

[Delfuego]

Dude, you may be getting a "C" because this is a very incoherent statement. Not trying to be a dick, but.... Maybe you should spend more time studying, instead of arguing with people who's opinion you will not be able to change.

who spend time, money, and energy to apply and came here.

Well it turned into a flame war on me and Texans or conservatives in general, because the German lady from California was all "I know those Texas conservative un-educated rednecks will go the border with their shotguns and shoot people near the border of Cali, Mexico and, Tex."
Everyone else were like "OMG, the rednecks deserve to burn!"
I rebutted "You got photo or video of that happening?"
Her response "You have accept their ignorance racist ideal and forgotten your roots, you are not at liberty to talk here!"

The end result was a total flame war on me, like i'm the one pretending to be smart but actually ignorant... I doubt I will get anything higher than a C now, since, well the professor hates me.

Normally the ex-marine guy(Texan) are on the conservative side of arguments, but he didn't show up today. Glad he didn't, he would not liked it one bit.

Fuck this class, rant over.

[UrbanWolf]

Dude, you may be getting a "C" because this is a very incoherent statement. Not trying to be a dick, but.... Maybe you should spend more time studying, instead of arguing with people who's opinion you will not be able to change.

Actually I have an A+ as of right now, but the professor turn down my aarguments a lot. When the class is upper division argument, I should be free to express my opinion and disagree with others. She claim to seen rednecks shooting Mexicans, I asked prove, not to0 much to ask. Martin Lurther King used Bible examples to prove his point, and that's what we have to learn from the class, not some asshurtin Cali German lady's claim.

[Delfuego]

Actually I have an A+ as of right now,

Good man!

Just tell them what they want to hear. Get your degree and get out of there. Your beating yourself up. Don't give them the pleasure.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Dude, you may be getting a "C" because this is a very incoherent statement. Not trying to be a dick, but.... Maybe you should spend more time studying, instead of arguing with people who's opinion you will not be able to change.

He speaks Engrish.. like me.

[TheGrey]

I participated in a college class like that, once. My assertion was that my ancestors were from Norway, of Viking stock and did a lot of Irish and English oppression and slavery. How did they feel about white-on-white oppression? They also were not pleased when I brought up the fact that they were ignoring black-on-black oppression in Africa (which is still going on) and they tried like hell to make me feel bad for my roots. *shrug* I stem from conquering nations that eventually got its ass kicked. It's what conquering nations do. You can't "make it didn't happen" nor should you have to apologize for your skin color.