{"id":1710,"date":"2017-02-10T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:11:26","slug":"american-studies-prof-demands-students-not-use-term-illegal-immigrant-final-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/american-studies-prof-demands-students-not-use-term-illegal-immigrant-final-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"American studies prof demands students not use the term \u201cillegal immigrant\u201d on final exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/500414668\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.329966% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/500414668?et=DnTnhZ76SH57AYxCvdGP6Q&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=vYeHyqcxgUQDMSa5JmXmZZrmmKuoxTF8L1YjrSRNkW4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s another day at a California college and thus another example of the rise of the New Fascists on campus.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time the tyranny is courtesy of Professor Alicia Ch\u00e1vez at the University of Southern California who demanded students to refrain from using the term \u201cillegal immigrant\u201d when writing the essay for their final exam. An anonymous student provided the e-mail reminder sent out by teachers assistant Jolie Chea to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/30307\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The College Fix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHi everyone, one last message from me this semester: On your final exams, please refrain from using the term \u2018illegal immigrant\u2019 to refer to human beings \u2014 as Professor Chavez has requested (or mandated). Instead, please use \u2018undocumented immigrant\u2019 or \u2018unauthorized entry\u2019 to describe folks\u2019 status or how they may have arrived in the U.S.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems the professor needed the safe space this time more than her students.<\/p>\n<p>Here was the essay prompt as provided by the same student who was afraid revealing her identity could result in a bad grade:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historically, the North American West has been imagined as a geography of leisure, opportunity, entertainment, and wealth, and also as a place where people of color could live outside of the structures of inequality. However, by 1992, Los Angeles became associated with severe racial and class conflict. How would you characterize the nature of lived experience in the West by the late 19th through the early 21st century? Is it a region that has maintained long-held hierarchies of inequality that continue to circumscribe people\u2019s lives? Is it a region that has opened new opportunities for persons or communities that could not find them in other places?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, talk about leading the witness.<\/p>\n<p>The student also told The Fix that \u201cthe entire class has been anti-American values, anti-Constitution, anti-Declaration of Independence, anti-Bible, anti-Trump\u201d and so, wasn\u2019t surprised at all by the request to strike the \u201coffensive\u201d term from their essay terminology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire class is, \u2018How can we make things more equal,\u2019\u201d the student added. \u201cThey peddle this socialist sort of economic idea when they look at equality in the United States, and they peddle it through race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ch\u00e1vez had inserted her ire for America in her class before, once in a 2015 lecture when she told her class the Founding Fathers don\u2019t deserve any praise whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the education our future leaders are getting. 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