WDYT about these high school powerpoint presentations?
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Anonymous
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Is this something that is appropriate for high school kids to be doing? Calling white culture a. crazy b. a plague c. dangerous. Isn't this kind of predjuced against white people?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hattiesoykan/powerpoint-presentations-that-give-zero-fucks?utm_term=.ycdBNY8o1#.deQXO1nLb |
Anonymous
| What is "white culture"? |
Anonymous
| OP, I'm sure that if we turned some of the posts on DCUM into PowerPoint slides, it would be much worse. Move along...nothing to see here. |
Anonymous
Everyday life. |
Anonymous
| If you took White and changed it to any other race, we'd all be flipping out. Racism shouldn't be tolerated in any form. |
Anonymous
What am I supposed to conclude from these images? Some kids wrote presentations. Some of them were not very good. (And a few were funny.) I can't react without the whole story. Were other slides better? Did the student get a good grade? What was the class reaction? And let's be honest. How hard is it to college 10-20 examples of embarrassing student work? Answer: Not hard. Let me show you the map quizzes I graded for World History 101 at a university. My personal favorite is the especially cute one where England and the USSR as switched. |
Anonymous
| Those slides make up the DCUM holy book. Good find, OP! |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't lump all of them together. And, for the record, they are a mixture of high school and college level presentations.
The dad saying colonialism in southeast Asia "sucked" is fair and, frankly, true. It did. The point about white privilege being one form of history taught as core and the other as an elective is also fair. There are also a few of those slides, such as the Amiri Baraka analysis, that are clearly part of a larger presentation (read the subtitle), so the photos are really out of context. In either case, if I was the professor or teacher, I would challenge the students who presented the reverse racism/fairytale slides to flesh out and defend their positions. Do they mean because racism presumes rights enjoyed as part of a dominant power structure? What about cases when minorities have the power in a situation such as the recent attack on a disabled man by black teens which was streamed on FB live? Those people were charged with hate crimes. How does the "there's no reverse racism" thesis hold up in such instances? The presentations attacking white people as a homogenous group... totally inappropriate, racist, and intellectually lazy. Fail. And BuzzFeed gets a fail for putting together, in typical vapid, click-bait fashion, such a shallow collection absent context. Signed an AA professor |
Anonymous
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Buzz feed? Don't ask me what I think of buzzfeed as if it matters.
I don't like it when my kid does powerpoints when he should be writing essays. |