dre@myrias.com (Duane Eitzen) (12/04/89)
In article <1989Dec2.174136.8014@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> chandru@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chandru Krishnan) writes: > > I have my own axe to grind with teachers. When Paki-bashing was at its >height in those nightmarish years of 1974-78 (and even in a toned down way >after that) teachers said and did virtually nothing,except mouth a few >platitudes and indifferently at that. . . . > Those were awfully rough times for someone between the age of 10-14,who >had to take the crude racist garbage from the student population and racism >of a more sophisticated kind from people who are supposed to know better! > Along similar lines, I had a teacher (from somewhere in south asia) who publicly refered to his students as "white trash". We sure are an awful species, eh? dre.
elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume) (12/05/89)
In article <1989Dec2.174136.8014@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> chandru@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chandru Krishnan) writes: > I have my own axe to grind with teachers. When Paki-bashing was at its >height in those nightmarish years of 1974-78 (and even in a toned down way >after that) teachers said and did virtually nothing,except mouth a few >platitudes and indifferently at that. Please spare me (and us). People in the marjority hardly need something so obvious as skin colour to oppress. Any immigrant that I know of has horror stories to tell (me included, and I'm technically not an immigrant). For me, it caused me severe distress, until I learned to use my fists (hardly a good solution) and my head (ah, a better solution). -- Eugene Fiume Dynamic Graphics Project University of Toronto elf@dgp.toronto.edu