Reading Prof Starkman’s gobbledygook is a macro pain in the posterior. She tops it all off by saying “to be virtuous, students have to stop themselves from being ambitious”. By the way… it will cost your young snowflake $50,000 per year to listen to this sort of vapid sludge. The website “What Will They Learn?” gives Stanford the grade of “D” because of their almost non-existent general education course requirements.
Talking about how easy your homework assignment is could be a microaggression, according to Ruth Starkman, a professor at Stanford University.
Writing for the Huffington Post, Starkman argued that referring to your homework as “easy” could hurt other students’ feelings, since not all students may have found the assignment easy to complete.
“Had you been listening, you might have heard others describe your comment as a ‘microaggression,’ a term coined in 1970 by Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Chester M. Pierce,” Starkman wrote.
Explaining why you found the homework easy could be a microaggression too, because “even if it’s not a lie,” it could also be “a form of bragging.”
“Not everyone went to your high school, had your fortunate circumstances, or such a dazzling delivery room arrival, and even if they did, they might still be suffering because of the genuine challenges of the assignments,” Starkman wrote.
Starkman wrote that because students live in “a world of unevenly distributed knowledge,” they must be careful not to speak carelessly around other students, especially students who are from minority backgrounds.
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Starkman concludes by telling students that to be virtuous, they have to stop themselves from being ambitious and help other students.