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

this professor doesn't know what he'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'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'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's kiss of ignorance masquerading as authority.

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