Re: Worst mistakes made by the professor in the classroom.
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During a college Humanities class my professor was trying to start a discussion on why we use the words we use for certain things. For example why do we call a car, a car?
However, the first example that came to his mind was, "Why do we call a pig, a pig and not...a nigger"
Of course there was a black guy in the class and the professor instantly started stumbling over his words, turned red and was trying to save himself saying "maybe that wasnt a good example"
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If he'd just played it off, it would have been fine. Only when he started getting embarassed did this become an incident.
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