TheX Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Poor junior, how will he ever move past this HORRIBLE event? A restaurant staffer at the University of Minnesota was reported to the campus bias response team recently -- for the mistake for saying “hello” in Japanese to an Asian-American student. The greeting by the female employee reportedly confused the student and the staffer then asked the student where they were from. It remained unclear if the employee was Japanese. “Wisconsin,” the student replied, prompting the employee to laugh it off and wish the student a good day. But the student was apparently offended by the interaction and urged the campus's bias response team to address such “microaggressions” and other acts of what the student viewed as "implicit bias." “These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus,” wrote the student who submitted the complaint. “This implicit bias needs to be addressed.” The bias team reportedly acted immediately and referred the incident to the restaurant's management. The student, meanwhile, was referred to the campus “Ethical Advocate Program” in the event if they “want to talk further about the experience.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Huh. Do you have a link to this off of a normal website? Only seem to find links from Breitbart-type websites. None list a person's name (which would be in a lawsuit). Pretty sure this is fake news. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 Not fake news. https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-student-reports-cashier-campus-bias-police-hello-japanese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Again, they all go back to the original "college fix.com" story. Fox is not even doing its own homework. Collegefix is associated with Ben Shapiro and calls itself "your daily dose of right minded news." (emphasis is theirs, not mine.) If this is a lawsuit then it would be public. Apparently this IS a lawsuit with Shapiro and the U: https://www.mndaily.com/article/2019/02/brshapiro So all of this stinks as fake news: 1. No actual names 2. No actual dates (other than 'fall of 2018'') 3. All lawsuits are public record and one should be able to find data fairly easily So I would say that this is not true unless you can provide some real data that ties to an actual incident with actual details. Notice how there is a VERY detailed description of the conversation but ZERO detail on the location, date, names, etc. - you know, the stuff that would exist in a lawsuit. All of this looks fake unless you can provide some actual data. Seems like the only "micro aggression" that involves the U is Ben Shapiro who is suing the school. My guess is the college fix story is a simply fabricated to help sell a narrative, not something that really happened. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 Fits in well with the truth that's out there to see every day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Well, you are right on that count. vSeems that Shapiro is continually triggered by micro aggressions and turns to the court to resolve his hurt feelings. However, the whole UM story does not really fit any truth because there does not seem to be any detail to back it up. I would say that is a category of "people want to believe it because it fits their narrative, even without any evidence to back it up." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Shouldn't "campus bias response team" be capitalized? Kids today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack_turtle Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 As a person with a education and professional background in newspaper journalism, that whole thing reeks of fake news. I admit my own bias, but sources matter. Every source is subject to some bias because they are human, but some are worse than others. Hot take: Rightwing fake news is more prevalent than left-wing fake news because more conservative audience leans older and less inclined to engage in critical thinking. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack_turtle Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 For example, lots of my old, conservative relatives were over the moon for the headline "FBI AGENT SUSPECTED IN HILLARY EMAIL LEAKS FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE" in 2016, right before the election. It was reported first in the Denver Guardian. It took me ten seconds to research the Denver Guardian and point out the error, but those people did not care one bit that the article and the entire source were 100% bullshit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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notyal Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 14 hours ago, TheX said: So what? You've only proven that the University of Oregon can properly capitalize. The university of minnesota is the bIAS rESPONSE tEAM in question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 #capitalizationlivesmatter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First-Blood Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 As a person with a education and professional background in newspaper journalism, that whole thing reeks of fake news. I admit my own bias, but sources matter. Every source is subject to some bias because they are human, but some are worse than others. Hot take: Rightwing fake news is more prevalent than left-wing fake news because more conservative audience leans older and less inclined to engage in critical thinking.Are you admitting to be biased against older people?Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 7:21 AM, TheX said: Not fake news. https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-student-reports-cashier-campus-bias-police-hello-japanese Wouldn't this qualify as an oxymoron? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throet Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 11:51 AM, mack_turtle said: Hot take: Rightwing fake news is more prevalent than left-wing fake news because more conservative audience leans older and less inclined to engage in critical thinking. Said differently: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheX Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 I get my real news from Al Jazeera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/22/2019 at 8:20 PM, TheX said: I get my real news from Al Jazeera. Because Al Jazeera is far less left-bias than Fox news is right-bias. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarneytx Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Might help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicewookie Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 11:51 AM, mack_turtle said: As a person with a education and professional background in newspaper journalism, that whole thing reeks of fake news. I admit my own bias, but sources matter. Every source is subject to some bias because they are human, but some are worse than others. Hot take: Rightwing fake news is more prevalent than left-wing fake news because more conservative audience leans older and less inclined to engage in critical thinking. As a person with an education......😋 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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