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Modern Educayshun

Neel Kolhatkar · 20.5M views · 2015-11-09 · 7:21

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Neel Kolhatkar's satirical short film parodies modern education and political correctness. It shows how obsession with inclusive speech makes plain communication difficult.

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It is cited as a comedic parody of diversity and inclusion initiatives in threads on those topics.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2026

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TacticalCoder · 2026-04 · Reference

> In a 2019 blog post, I expressed concern that training teachers to recognize “worship of the written word” as “white supremacy culture,” as many equity trainers urged, could alienate students of color from school. 2019... By then some people had already noticed the problem since years and years. Here's Neel Kolhatkar 's take on it in 2016, in this wonderful 7-minutes short satirical movie aptly named "Modern Educayshun" (the realisator plays the main character): [VIDEO] I don't know if there's much else to do than laugh about this entire madness of a movement. What disgust me really the most is that those very same who've been trying to portrait heterosexual white men in the west as "patriarchal" and responsible for all evils (vs women, vs men of colors, etc.) are the very same who are turning a complete blind eye on the actual patriarchal societies that do the most horrible things one can imagine. For a reality check, for example: there are 230 million woman that have undergone forced female genital mutilation. And if rounded about 0% of those have been done by white men from the west. And because people have nothing to answer to that, they'll downvote. So yeah: my advice would be... Do like me: pick your fights.

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TacticalCoder · 2024-10 · Reference

I'm pretty sure proper grammar and spelling would already gain you quite some points. An indian-australian's semi-recent take on modern "educayshun": [VIDEO]

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MrBlueIncognito · 2022-04 · Reference

[VIDEO] A short-film/parody on how an extreme obsession with inclusive speech makes it impossible to communicate clearly without consequences.

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