Monday, February 18, 2008

Po-Mo Pedagogy

From our Swedish correspondent LN comes this cartoon:

I am not a homophobe!

This unfortunate student is being forced to stay after school and write “I am not a homophobe” a thousand times.

Gotta get that mind right.


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2 comments:

Ed Mahmoud said...

I've been busy lately, and the home laptop is still feeling poorly after I spilled soup on it.


But no thread on Kosovo's declaration of independence?


(Just curious)

carpenter said...

For the sake:
The caricature is from today's Dagens Nyheter. Journalist Maciej Zaremba who, at irregular intervals, writes excellent pieces for the paper. His new series is on the "Law of equal treatment" (Lagen om likabehandling) - introduced in 2001 - that has given incentive to a new dicrimination- & offendedness industry at Swedish universities

This unfortunate student is being forced to stay after school and write “I am not a homophobe” a thousand times

Actually, Zaremba aims his criticism towards crybaby students and their up-backing unions, constantly "offended" (kränkta) by teachers' decisions not to approve their thesises because of incorrect spelling, terrible grammar, etc., and claiming that they fail tests since university teachers discriminate them for being gay, Hispanic, Kurd. You name it: anything but an white, heterosexual Swedish man are discriminated against.
Hence, the man writing "I'm not a homphobe" on the blackboard is a teacher, after having faced repressive actions by crybaby Kurds, Hispanics, homosexuals, and so on, exploiting Lagen för likabehandling.

Zaremba's first two articles:
Först kränkt vinner ("First offended wins") and Tyst i klassen ("Silence in class")
Tomorrow, the third - and last - piece of his series will be published. Not only crap is published in Swedish MSM, thank heavens..

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