'I didn't mean to offend anybody' - Unisa lecturer after series of tweets attacking NSFAS recipients

[Sinbad]

Its about nuance. You can't say anything anymore without things being read into it.

The obvious assumption here is that she has identified back woman as the people who use the cash for things other than textbooks. Many black woman wear wigs, so its a rather direct attack at them.

This was poor strategy on her part. She might not have understood the interpretation when she made the post.
Its possible that she has a class of mostly black woman who have wigs, are all dolled up, are on NSFAS loans but don't own textbooks. Here statement may be 100% factually correct.... but she didn't consider how she was targeting those people directly and its made her look like a biggot.

ie, speaking while white.

 

[jack_spratt]

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189416802448789504

I would take the money, then download for free.

 

[yebocan]

You didn't read the article. Tito is quick, he had plenty of time to spend on the budget.

...was referring his below the going blesser payment rate arrangement - keeping an eye on the/his budget - the kind of FM you want...always has an eye on finances, even during leisure time

 

[Nerfherder]

Academic publishing is a complete farce, both for textbooks and the papers. The experts who write these books don't really do it for the money, they do for the prestige of furthering their field.

And I actually do think free content is the way things will go. If you look at machine learning, almost all the content is available on https://arxiv.org/, and I am meaning real cutting edge stuff. And most of the good papers in this field have their code published on github, such that other people can use it. Which actually makes it more scientific as anyone can easily repeat the experiments to test the claims made in the paper.

They just need to licence the content for the course and build it in to the tuition fee.
You need the content for the class... you will have to use it to participate so it should just be an extra content fee.
IF you get the books or copy them or get second hand or even get the digital copy - it should just be the same.

Having a single fee for an entire university class would be way more lucrative for the publishers anyway. Only party that lose out will be the booksellers and printers. Those industries are dying anyway.

 

[Nerfherder]

ie, speaking while white.

Ye, well what can we do.

You just need to be clever about the comments you make. We KNOW there are these easy traps to fall in so why not watch where you walk.

 

[Aghori]

Nothing racist was said by McKay. I personally know the lady as we met quite a few times at Unisa and she was a warm and friendly person who seems very well educated. I have also seen students using their sbux and nsfas funds for the exact same things McKay has said. She is right but people are getting offended because it's the truth.

The racist here is that person who replied to her tweet, Abdul Karim. Virtue-signalling cuckold of a pooes who wants to think he is black.

 

[yebocan]

Nothing racist was said by McKay. I personally know the lady as we met quite a few times at Unisa and she was a warm and friendly person who seems very well educated. I have also seen students using their sbux and nsfas funds for the exact same things McKay has said. She is right but people are getting offended because it's the truth.

The racist here is that person who replied to her tweet, Abdul Karim. Virtue-signalling cuckold of a pooes who wants to think he is black.

right or wrong ...suppose, that is matter of point of view...what I -still- do not get, why people --especially those educated -- willingly walk onto Twitter in the first place. Fck you can be how frustrated, but why open yourself to such drama/admin

 

[koeks525]

But she didn't say ANYTHING wrong. I seriously can't see the issue here.

You right, the lady didn't say anything wrong. She speaks the truth about students misusing their funding from NSFAS. The issue is, her employer was dragged in her twitter conversations, and people will associate her words with her employer... "oh, is this the kind of people that work for employer X" or "how did employer Y hire someone like this". So many people have ended up losing their jobs, credentials, and more because of outbursts on social media; one would think cases like these would be a thing of the past.