Stupid Stuff we Learn in College, and the Professors that Teach it. - From the Faggiest Sociologists to the Stupidest Historians

[Salacious Krumb]

I didn't see a thread for this, and I'm learning about gender and sexuality in sociology class right now, so I figured I ought to make this thread so there's a place for my fellow schoolfags to vent. Post your stupid class experiences or tell us about the worst Professors/Instructors you've had at the college level. If a similar thread already exists, sorry, this is my first time.
My sociology professor is going on about how men and women aren't so different because intersex people exist as 1% of the population, which is a little high compared to what I've heard, but ok. This is used to springboard into calling sex a spectrum, which does nothing to legitimize transgenderism, not that he would notice. He also talked about women in the olympics finding out they had male chromosomes or something, and about how there aren't any major differences in strength, speed, etc. because men and women in the olympics have grown closer in performance as more women have competed in the olympics.
Previously, we had a section on discrimination, which led to such concepts as white fragility and white privilege, as well as this article. He said something offhand about how there's a trend of African Americans in film having lighter skin, so I guess Will Smith and Morgan Freeman just don't matter. That's what I remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure more will come to me later.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Humanities pleb, lmao.
Stupid stuff I was taught was mainly about how some obsolete technologies such as expert systems or self-organizing maps are actually the future.

 

[CoolFool]

I mentioned this elsewhere, but one of my professors said the phrase "common sense" was racist and we had to write an essay on why it was racist. Even back then, when I was in my peak SJW phase, I thought this was fucking stupid and the reasoning behind it actually came across as racist because it basically made it sound like black/brown people are too stupid to understand very simple universal things.

Honestly, the way my professors constantly infantilized women and minorities was a source of confusion and shame during my classes. I remember at one point, while waiting for our professor to get to class, some black student joked and said "No wonder white people are in charge, we apparently can't do anything for ourselves."

Also mentioned elsewhere, that same professor said anyone who finds Asian women attractive are pedophiles. And she said this when there were Asian students IN THE CLASS.

 

[The Early 2000s]

My first uni English class had us do essays on Dr. Seuss books. Teacher was a nutbar, had us pontificating about the fucking Lorax like it was middle school.

Also took a gender studies class to fill an elective. What a fucking crock of shit that was. The textbook had comics from Sopie Labelle in it. Barely fucking remember anything in the class, except it oddly emphasized the whole Indian two-spirit thing as tranny culture, trying to make it seem like a really common aspect of Native American life. Oh, and the professor said that citing Wikipedia as your source was perfectly fine because, "they take the appropriate steps to verify the actual sources themselves".

I mentioned this elsewhere, but one of my professors said the phrase "common sense" was racist and we had to write an essay on why it was racist. Even back then, when I was in my peak SJW phase, I thought this was fucking stupid and the reasoning behind it actually came across as racist because it basically made it sound like black/brown people are too stupid to understand very simple universal things.

Honestly, the way my professors constantly infantilized women and minorities was a source of confusion and shame during my classes. I remember at one point, while waiting for our professor to get to class, some black student joked and said "No wonder white people are in charge, we apparently can't do anything for ourselves."

Also mentioned elsewhere, that same professor said anyone who finds Asian women attractive are pedophiles. And she said this when there were Asian students IN THE CLASS.

I'm guessing white guy prof?

 

[CoolFool]

I'm guessing white guy prof?

Nope, a black woman. She was pretty funny tbh, and sometimes she would even say some really sensible things, but most of the time she was deep in the SJW kool-aid and truly bought into the idea that white people were somehow nothing special yet apparently were somehow able to convince people that they were the best. She also seemed to really dislike Asians but idk why.

I had white male professors and they were pretty sane, though I can't imagine they're still teaching. I remember several students getting pissed and arguing with the professors over simple things (like one simply saying men are stronger than women), this was right before I graduated. I imagine they either left or they eventually became SJW dick suckers if they wanted to keep their job.

I know for a fact one TERFy teacher retired early, she flat out told me and a few other students that she couldn't take the students anymore. I don't blame her, in class there were two very outspoken feminists that would argue and make class hell. My only regret isn't speaking up when I disagreed with them.

 

[Dick Mason]

professor said anyone who finds Asian women attractive are pedophiles

I would have asked them to expand on that. The explanation would have been gold.

 

[Fathomless Eminence]

I went to a community college with the goal of transferring credits to a four year after I got my AA so I could save some money and I had to take a "diversity credit" and so I chose a class called "Diversity in the Workplace" or some shit and we didn't have a professor we had an "instructor" who had fucked up blue crackhead teeth and loved citing the NAACP. Another student asked if the NAACP was the most reliable source and the dude literally put his face like an inch away from this guy and screamed "THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS!"

 

[CoolFool]

I would have asked them to expand on that. The explanation would have been gold.

She did expand on it and it was part of our testing grade to know this. Her reasoning was that anyone who finds Asian women attractive most likely has "yellow fever" and that they are pedophiles because Asian woman look young and have child-like features.

Again, this was when I was at peak SJW, and even then I couldn't believe what I was hearing, especially in a class with several Asian women present. I agree that Asian women tend to look younger compared to other races, but no one would have looked at these Asian students and mistook them for children. And her argument basically made it to where only Asian men could find Asian women attractive, everyone else was just a perverted fetishist.

 

[SaintChristopher69]

Before I went to university , I delved into media studies during my time in college. One semester was dedicated solely to LGBT studies, which I found to be....well...dumb. I'm stumped politics always seem to infiltrate education. It feels like it's forced upon us without choice.

 

[seri0us]

My sociology professor is going on about how men and women aren't so different because intersex people exist

You should ask him to clarify if a hermaphrodite with a penis inside of a vagina would it have an orgasm whenever it walks

 

[HarveyMCR]

One of my professors in college was a champion for what he called the “No battle of Zama” Theory.

Basically, Rome beat Carthage in the first Punic war. The son of a Carthaginian general named Hannibal then takes up command of an army, and marches it into Italia and wages a bitter campaign of destruction that saw the complete annihilation of multiple Roman armies. However, since his army lacked siege equipment and was slowly evaporating, Hannibal couldn’t take any cities and was forced to roam the countryside. The Romans then sent an army to Africa to attack Carthage itself. Carthage recalled Hannibal, he has a final facedown with the Roman army, and in a disastrous series of events, was defeated in the battle of Zama

His theory was that instead of a grand, epic showdown, Hannibal kinda just left one day and Rome/Carthage never signed a treaty at knife point. His reasoning for why Zama was fake was

1. Carthage still existed after the war (why wouldn’t they just destroy it then and there?)

2. The battle of Zama is too storybook. It reads like a final showdown out of a shitty Marvel movie.

3. The end of the Second Punic War had a treaty demanding the dismantlement of the Carthaginian dockyard. Historical records of the dockyard show that it still continued to operate after the end of the war, therefore, Carthage wasn’t actually being forced to abide by the treaty.

The third point is both the only piece of actual evidence he had, and completely irrelevant to if the battle of Zama actually happened. The theory is called “No Zama”. Not “No Carthaginian dockyard”.

He didn’t really have a response to “why was Scipio’s descendants given the title ‘Africanus’ if the Romans never landed in Africa”. I also shut him up pretty quickly when I asked if the existence of the Bismarck (WWII German Battleship) disproved the existence of the Treaty of Versailles.

Sorry for the autism - I just periodically think about this very strange hill this man tried to live/die on, and this is the first time I’ve ever had an opportunity to verbalize it

 

[Grug]

@HarveyMC
reminds me of this

 

[Salacious Krumb]

You should ask him to clarify if a hermaphrodite with a penis inside of a vagina would it have an orgasm whenever it walks

That's unhinged and I love it. I assume the answer is no because there are no true human hermaphrodites, but I'm no expert.

 

[Gintoki's Sweet Tooth]

When I was in Sociology I remember being taught white people are born inherently racist because of a power imbalance, and that Band-aids were racist because they were pale in color as opposed to coming in various shades of brown.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

He said something offhand about how there's a trend of African Americans in film having lighter skin, so I guess Will Smith and Morgan Freeman just don't matter.

it's so cool how humanities professors are categorically idiots who are literally paid to be wrong. kiwis, what's the easiest way to get tenure?

 

[Major]

The american higher education system sounds terrible. I have a science degree and never took a non-scientific subject. Never had any politics whatsoever. I don't know how you people stand it, especially when it's 4 years rather than 3 just to pad it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Previously, we had a section on discrimination, which led to such concepts as white fragility and white privilege, as well as this article.

Oh, I remember that. Have you ever done those "equal opportunity" lines where you'd have to step forward/back based on your circumstances?

I had a diversity in the workplace course. One lecture was about how wearing ties is symbolic to toxicity by having your penis out. Something asisine like that.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Stupid stuff I was taught was mainly about how some obsolete technologies such as expert systems or self-organizing maps are actually the future.

I can't really comment on SOMs other than that I can quickly verify there are apparently robust implementations for them in both Python and R but I more intended to say that expert systems might not be "the future" but neither are they obsolete, which could be said more generally of symbolic AI as opposed to—the "philosophical" term is "subsymbolic AI"—but at this point I would just say "machine learning". Expert systems are certainly still in use and researched:

https://towardsdatascience.com/are-expert-systems-dead-87c8d6c26474

The article considers decision trees to be a hybrid of the two approaches which is honestly something I never thought of before.

Nope, a black woman. She was pretty funny tbh, and sometimes she would even say some really sensible things, but most of the time she was deep in the SJW kool-aid and truly bought into the idea that white people were somehow nothing special yet apparently were somehow able to convince people that they were the best. She also seemed to really dislike Asians but idk why.

A Korean grocer whaled on her cousin Junebug with a baseball bat after he attempted to rob the place with a knife

 

[holyhandgrenade]

Took a creative writing class and the professor was a repressed homo, suicidal, grad student who was really into avant garde slasher films. Strange dude, but he gave out extra credit for going to the English Department's poetry night at a bar on campus and I had nothing better to do so I went.
There was another grad student/professor there whose first poem consisted of just saying the word Hodor as many times as she could for two minutes and then she immediately launched into a spoken word recounting of how she was abused and molested as a child. English departments are a joke.
Slightly off topic, but I had an Earth Science teacher in High School who told us that global warming on Earth was melting the ice caps on Mars. I am still a little salty about that one because if she hadn't been so stupid that would have been the only class I got to take with my brother in school.

 

[CoolFool]

The american higher education system sounds terrible. I have a science degree and never took a non-scientific subject. Never had any politics whatsoever. I don't know how you people stand it, especially when it's 4 years rather than 3 just to pad it.

At least back when I was in university, most of my professors were old school and didn't do the SJW nonsense, even in classes where you'd expect it to be. It was honestly the students that made school frustrating and annoying, because they always wanted to chill discussion by accusing everyone that didn't agree with them as being racist or sexist.