Post by oh oooh on Jun 6, 2022 9:33:50 GMT
So I saw this:
which doesn't make sense. How can a descriptive term be offensive?
So I waded in to the thread, hoping to try and understand what was going on. It turns out (I THINK) that the author meant to say that preferring native English-language teachers when hiring was offensive and discriminatory. Which makes more sense, I think (let's leave the native vs non-native language teacher argument aside for now).
HOWEVER - the author didn't admit that his post was wrong or even badly-phrased. He doubled down, and responded to any disagreement (and there was a lot) with the exact same post, copied and pasted. So I politely asked him to stop responding with the same statement because it didn't do his cause any favours. And someone who thought they were on my side said 'yeah he's a typical bloody Marxist always going on about the same thing'. So I posted this:
well I was hoping to sidestep politics - the original post is just nonsense whichever way you lean ideologically. And as it leads with this sentence -
The term "Native English Speaker" is offensive and discriminatory.
- which as many have said, doesn't - CAN'T - make sense, I tend to think this was a cheap grab at attention, aimed to bring up some relevant issues relating to prejudice in the TEFL marketplace. If that is indeed what Ollie was after then he should admit it, and stop with the tiresome and repetitive finger-wagging.
You know, I really hate Linkedin. I really don't know why I bother. If you can get past the sea of backslapping bullshit, look-at-me-I-got-promoted grinning inanity and shared platitudes it's these endless strings of crap. The whole platform is just a paddling pool for bland but self-centred and ambitious corporate types, dressed up as something worthy. There's nothing intelligent or interesting to be found anywhere.
and I'll try and stay away for as long as I can (I won't leave altogether because to be honest it's helped me with jobs a couple of times).
Do you use Linkedin? Isn't it fucking awful?
which doesn't make sense. How can a descriptive term be offensive?
So I waded in to the thread, hoping to try and understand what was going on. It turns out (I THINK) that the author meant to say that preferring native English-language teachers when hiring was offensive and discriminatory. Which makes more sense, I think (let's leave the native vs non-native language teacher argument aside for now).
HOWEVER - the author didn't admit that his post was wrong or even badly-phrased. He doubled down, and responded to any disagreement (and there was a lot) with the exact same post, copied and pasted. So I politely asked him to stop responding with the same statement because it didn't do his cause any favours. And someone who thought they were on my side said 'yeah he's a typical bloody Marxist always going on about the same thing'. So I posted this:
well I was hoping to sidestep politics - the original post is just nonsense whichever way you lean ideologically. And as it leads with this sentence -
The term "Native English Speaker" is offensive and discriminatory.
- which as many have said, doesn't - CAN'T - make sense, I tend to think this was a cheap grab at attention, aimed to bring up some relevant issues relating to prejudice in the TEFL marketplace. If that is indeed what Ollie was after then he should admit it, and stop with the tiresome and repetitive finger-wagging.
You know, I really hate Linkedin. I really don't know why I bother. If you can get past the sea of backslapping bullshit, look-at-me-I-got-promoted grinning inanity and shared platitudes it's these endless strings of crap. The whole platform is just a paddling pool for bland but self-centred and ambitious corporate types, dressed up as something worthy. There's nothing intelligent or interesting to be found anywhere.
and I'll try and stay away for as long as I can (I won't leave altogether because to be honest it's helped me with jobs a couple of times).
Do you use Linkedin? Isn't it fucking awful?