Professor fired for teaching Mandarin linguistics
A professor got removed from a class for teaching the Mandarin filler word (that sounds like "umm" in English) because it vaguely resembles an English slur. Not even using it in a derogatory way, just linguistic instruction. This is the kind of hair-trigger institutional cowardice that kills any actual learning.
She’s not wrong, Woke 1 was crazzzzy.
Academic censorship based on phonetic coincidence collapses the difference between harm and language itself.
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