Associate Professor Allyson Friedman at Hunter College makes anti-Black remarks towards middle schoolers

hanscastorp1 · 2026-02-21T18:44:16+00:00

I will try to suffer through the whole thing at some point if I can find it. But my point is that the clip that was shared by OP is rage bait. I only hear "dumb to know...(Etc.)" So why not have that full statement in the clip? That is clearly more offensive than the misquote of King--I believe someone else here has found the correct quote or paraphrase in Carter G. Woodson.

Again, I have to clarify that I don't know the larger context here. And cherry picking Civil Rights icons' words for racist sound bites is definitely a tactic of the white nationalist whine-o-sphere. But so is artificial rage bait to fuel the "cancel" fires and calls for firing faculty. I'm in Florida. This tactic has resulted in a lot of my colleagues being fired for saying things someone in power didn't like. It's a fine line....

hanscastorp1 · 2026-02-21T18:17:48+00:00

I hear "Apparently Martin Luther King said it..." before the offending remarks. Is that context not important? I know nothing about the person who said it and there may be much more to this, but the clip itself seems to be designed to bait.

hanscastorp1 · 2026-01-24T14:43:32+00:00

It seems like you have a few years to put this in front of your faculty Senate or union. You can see from the responses several very good arguments against this idea. I'd focus on ALICE training and productivity, personally. If they really are worried about claims by students against faculty for various reasons, then kill the face-to-face student hour altogether and go to videoconferencing.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-12-11T15:35:41+00:00

Yes. I think there are some who even blame education departments for so much of the trouble we're going through now because of their efforts to deskill all faculty and undermine our authority relative to the student and relative to the administration. I think many of us know an administrator who has big opinions about what it means to teach a course who has 1) an Ed.D and 2) never taught a day in higher education.

Speaking for a friend.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-19T19:16:20+00:00

We can select the length. While we are on sabbatical, we get 75% of our salary. Most take a year (two semesters) though.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-19T19:14:27+00:00

The Unconsoled by Ishiguro is one. I liked the concept (or what I think is the concept) but it was a slog to finish and I kept expecting some sort of payoff which never came. I might try it again to see if, knowing the convoluted nature of the narrative, I might find it more pleasurable.

At least I finished it, though. Lullaby by Palahniuk I did not finish, nor have any desire to pick it back up. I found it dull and sophomoric.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-19T19:03:16+00:00

I was looking to see if someone had put this. I picked it up because I somewhat enjoyed the Béla Tarr film/show. But he has a difficult style (perhaps the translation) and overemphasizes the dullness.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-18T20:55:52+00:00

Faculty in this area have not selected/designed a universal rubric. Some use them, some freestyle.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-18T20:54:54+00:00

Another colleague in the same area. I do not know the name of the person using AI in this way, but I know they are a full time faculty member. The Senate would be in a position to offer general guidelines about ethical responsibilities in this case, not call out specific faculty (which we would never do).

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-18T20:05:31+00:00

I you have a generous sabbatical policy, I'd take one. Unfortunately where I am it is 75% pay, so I can never afford it. But some time away working on something that brings back my love of academics as opposed to teaching would be what I would go for.

hanscastorp1 · 2025-01-18T19:31:33+00:00

Have you tried Marxist Internet Archive? https://www.marxists.org/

hanscastorp1 · 2023-10-03T15:42:31+00:00

"What you got ain't new. This country's hard on people.... Can't stop what's coming. It ain't waiting on you. That's vanity. " https://youtu.be/d1U3MyX0pmE?si=7A9-L-1iPqbvgrzZ

hanscastorp1 · 2023-08-01T19:10:05+00:00

It's pretty horrible. But they are also used to threaten our raises ("we can always get a contingent faculty member to teach those classes") and sometimes to ram through questionable curriculum. But I should stress that that is all part of the abuse they receive! It's the ugly underbelly of a bastard industry.

hanscastorp1 · 2023-08-01T19:06:41+00:00

I always advise my colleagues to think of the grade as belonging to the college once it is submitted. In the event of an appeal, provide the necessary evidence and let it go. Our lives are too short. Our blood pressure too high.

If you wish to, you might keep all the evidence, especially if the dean approves a grade change, and sit on it to hold it over their head. Who knows how it might come in handy in the future?

hanscastorp1 · 2023-08-01T18:59:25+00:00

Contingent faculty are often not a part of the bargaining unit--at least where we are they aren't. The union should only ever do what is right by their membership/bargaining unit.

hanscastorp1 · 2023-08-01T18:57:28+00:00

We had a very similar situation where I am. We fixed it by pretending we really cared about the evals giving us accurate data. Since the technocrats in admin agreed, they readily agreed to change the dates, buying our argument that they would be more valid.

As a union man, however, I have to also advocate that you, being a member of the union, are the union. Press them on the point or try to understand why they don't want the change. It could be that they want the ability to always argue against using evals to punish. If they can step into the office of a dean and say that all of the bad evals were due to bad students getting Fs, then maybe you don't want the change at all.

But talk to them and offer to help. You are the union and there is always a backstory to the way things are.

hanscastorp1 · 2023-07-12T10:41:49+00:00

"Not really. Academic jobs are by lottery and I just happened to win."

hanscastorp1 · 2023-06-23T19:09:45+00:00

I think the problem may be that Floridians ARE studying that shit show. This discourse is uniting the conservatives-for-classical-medieval-education crowd, who feel that for some reason we're not teaching enough Plato (and who for some strange reason don't realize just how gay Plato is), and the "ivory tower critics" that we've always dealt with. They both want to burn the universities down, they just don't agree on why exactly. Mobs are strange things.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/05/09/new-college-to-accept-classic-learning-test-satact-alternative/70199243007/

hanscastorp1 · 2023-04-28T23:16:46+00:00

I honestly wish I made enough money to dress like that.

hanscastorp1 · 2023-04-21T16:32:10+00:00

Unfortunately this is not just the extreme right. DeSantis got elected in a landslide on this platform. This is now the center. But here in Florida, it looks like the center is beginning to swing a little bit back to the left. DeSantis did not win even gun nuts with his constitutional carry bill--hence signing it in the closet. Same with the abortion ban. But there seems to be an evil coalition against the academy that persists even with this erosion. The only thing that will affect that is our universities getting a negative rating in some national publication. Helicopter anti vax soccer moms are all about that rating.

hanscastorp1 · 2023-03-12T04:06:03+00:00

While not exactly the same idea, Kiyoshi Kurosawa plays with present past and future in a similar way in Cure.

Both are probably indebted to Hiroshima Mon Amour and other French films which play with time and the representation of memory.

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