https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48302 Because the word 那个, which is pronounced very close to the N-word, was said by a professor the Dean at UPenn decided the best course of action was to suspend the professor for the transgression of speaking Chinese. Yes, this is the result of Critical Race Theory. A generation of snowflakes are rewriting our language, and languages of other cultures as well. Don't tell them how you say "You" in korean! Soon entire languages may be banned! Just remember: The anguish and trauma is indelible in the hippocampus.
I don't understand. There's several salient arguments on why this is occurring and they all stem from the processes introduced by Critical Race Theory and White Fragility. Universities while somewhat publically funded are generally powered by endowments. These come from investing institutions (RAND, DoD, Google et al.) and so they have considerable weight when deciding what can and can't be done. The adoption of CRT and White Fragility in FAANGs and the government has caused a perverse effect of censoring speech. What can you do - there are only two possible, rational but ethically reprehensible, paths: The dean sees a word that is a proper Chinese utterance/pause and recognizes the word as benign. Knowing students provide copious funds via loans, the prevalence of cancel culture, and grant writing/endowing institutions demand enforcement of CRT, you're forced to write a sappy letter talking about how you'll solve microaggressions and systemic racism. You keep your job at the expense of some lowly untenured associate professor because the alternative is to have your institution protested or even BURNED DOWN by violent radicals with the least damage done being withdrawal of your very important endowment. OR The dean truly believes CRT and wishes to control discourse in a university where ideology is supposed to be challenged. You use the lowly untenured associate professor as an example of the unquestioned and unchallenged power of the cultural marxist ideal. Pick your poison. Either way the purpose of a university becomes deluded further.
As someone who studied Chines that word is prounounced Nah-gay..... not even close to the other words they are claiming he said...
I'm familiar with both and have heard both. The one I know is pronounced "nah-guh" and when said quickly its remarkably similar.
Figure out what? That a word in another language, that has NO racist overtones, nothing what so ever to do with racial slurs might have a similar pronunciation? How long does it take someone to figure out that everything doesn’t concern them. And that their marginalization and hurt is a product of their own imagination.
Only a matter of time before this country in Africa is cancelled. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ng.html
> US-Nigerien Diplomat arrives at the Nigerien President's office. > We regret to inform you that it will be necessary to change your country's name. > Why? > Hundreds of 20 year olds are offended you exist. *cut tape* *play laugh track* *fade to credits*