vw, what was the class about?

Yikes, sj! That's scary!

It was my tutoring seminar, and my professor kept making sweeping generalizations that because our entire class is white and educated that we've come from privileged backgrounds. One of my good friends, who's history I don't know but seems to be far from that, was almost in tears. I was angry on her behalf, but also on mine. My parents were far from middle class until recently, but also, I've had my share of struggles. And then one of the guys went off about how Black English Vernacular and other "less-approved of" dialects are actually very elitist. And, you know, I wouldn't have had as much of a problem with him expressing his opinion, except that in the elevator he said that he thought the discussion was boring, and he wanted to mix it up a bit. I almost spit at him.

That's just fucked up.

So he was saying these things just to incite the class to --- what? Do something, be upset? Or just amuse him in a Dance Puppets Dance kinda way?

My teacher is frustrating but at least she doesn't pull crap like that.

Yeah. He wanted to rile people up, which just made me so much more angry.

one of the things I loved about my law school was how hard my professors worked to avoid making gender/race/orientation generalizations.

eta: which is me trying to say that I think educators owe more of a duty than most at avoiding that sort of thing since they are shaping minds and all that.

That's so messed up, vw. Sorry you have to deal with that.

He wanted to rile people up

great. Your class has a troll.

He's a cave troll.

He's an asshole.