i think the entire interaction is perfectly reasonable: tone-deaf professor teaching a class he& #39;s not qualified to teach, a dedicated and bright student pushing back, hopefully leading to a productive meeting. i don& #39;t think philosophy twitter is appreciating how obvious it is https://twitter.com/Morgan_Harris17/status/1299731112332230656">https://twitter.com/Morgan_Ha...

this professor doesn& #39;t know what he& #39;s talking about... for one, "Paris is Burning" was not directed by a Black artist, in fact the main critcism against it is that it was directed by a white woman with an almost neo-colonial, Kantian-anthropological gaze of Black queer culture.

this is an astounding, elementary mistake; it would be like a philosophy professor saying "Hume, who invented the categorical imperative" or "Plato, who drank the hemlock", or something. another giveaway that this professor is naive about the literature is "I don& #39;t believe

Black culture is only representable by a Black author. To me, that is a very limited view" ... while this is a defensible position to take, dismissing it as a "very limited view" shows a severe lack of appreciation for the complex debates around this contentious topic..

this is a topic that& #39;s been around since forever ago, notably in literary circles around white authors (badly) taking the voice of BIPOC characters and getting praised for it by white contest judges. there is a WEALTH of critical/real-world literature on the topic, it is NOT

a simple complaint to be dismissed in a callous sentence. The last sentence of the email, "I suggest you drop the course", just completes the grand slam, a chef& #39;s kiss of ignorance masquerading as authority.

i see y& #39;all, i see y& #39;all... you can actually comment if you read the thread, you& #39;re not going to get cancelled...