In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I didn’t give out an AOTW Award last week.

Sometimes the assholiness is just so blatant that my jaw drops and I want to bang my head against a wall. Sometimes it goes above and beyond simple garden variety assholiness and achieves a level only matched by Obungler and the Dimocrat Party. Such was the case this week. Toejam sent me the following story.

Didja know that if you’re a college professor and you correct the capitalization, punctuation, and spelling of a minority student that you’re a racist? Me neither, but that’s how it works in California.

Racial tensions are inflamed at the University of California at Los Angeles following several incidents — most notably, one where a professor corrected the grammar, punctuation and capitalization in minority students’ assignments.

The act of correcting a black student was “micro-aggression,” according to the members of the student group “Call 2 Action: Graduate Students of Color,” which launched a sit-in during a subsequent meeting of the class.

Micro-agression? WTF? WTF is wrong with these people?

“A hostile campus climate has been the norm for Students of Color in this class throughout the quarter as our epistemological and methodological commitments have been repeatedly questioned by our classmates and our instructor,” wrote the group in a statement to the college. “[The] barrage of questions by white colleagues and the grammar ‘lessons’ by the professor have contributed to a hostile class climate.”

That’s correct. A college professor trying to teach you booger eatin’ moh-rons how to speak and write correct English is creating a “hostile climate”. Trying to give you idiots the language skills to do well in this country is racist? And you wonder why you are second class citizens? You wonder why it’s hard for black people to get jobs? This could be one of the reasons. Is it hard carrying that 4×4 giant chip on your shoulder and trying to find racism behind every tree and under every rock? I know there is racism under some rocks. Just look at the rocks that Jesse Hymietown Jackson and Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton crawled out from under.

Some 25 students participated in the sit-in, including five of the 10 members of the class.

Val Rust, a professor of education and information, was the official target of the sit-in, though the aggrieved minority students had problems with UCLA’s handling of racial issues that went far beyond just one classroom, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Rust is guest-lecturing in China this week,

I’ll bet his Chinese students don’t think that correcting their capitalization and punctuation is racist.

and did not respond to a request for comment. He sent a letter to his colleagues in the education department, however, in which he clarified that he meant no offense to minorities.

I was just trying to teach them how to read and write intelligently. Who knew they wanted to come across as ignorant imbeciles with their writing skills?

“I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don’t feel that is appropriate,” he said in a statement, according to The Daily Bruin.

We be wantin’ to be using Ebonics rather than be actin’ white!

Some of the corrections were clarified by sit-in organizer Kenjus Watson. Rust told one student that she should not capitalize the word “indigenous” in her papers. This correction was ideologically-motivated, according to Watson.

Huh? Just huh? Face plant!

Rust admitted that he likely made matters worse by not aggressively and proactively taking the side of a minority student who was engaged in an argument with a white female student. The minority student told the woman that she had no right to feel oppressed, and Rust did not express agreement either way.

We be black. Dat teacher should be taking our sides because of Slavery® and 400 years of oppression. Dat teacher be rayciss! Obama done told us so.

“Two weeks ago a Student of Color and a white female student got into a big discussion,” said Rust. “She wants to use Standpoint Theory [a method of analysis coined by feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, based on the idea that all knowledge is subjective and based on one’s position in society] in her dissertation, and the Student of Color told her she had no business claiming that she was a member of an oppressed group.”

There only be one oppressed group in history and that be us niggas because of Slavery® and 400 years of oppression. Jesse Jackson done tol’ us dat. And Jews be bloodsuckin’ monsters. He and Rev. Al done tol’ us dat, too!

“She came back saying there are all kinds of oppression.

Like whites having to bend over backward to avoid any type of behavior which will in any way shape or form be interpreted as racism, like not using words like niggardly or denigrate (which ignorant or stupid blacks think come from the word “nigger”) or trying to teach them to speak or write coherent English.

I likely did not handle the situat

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0-00 – Oooops! My black cat just walked across my keyboard which messed up what I was typing. Correcting this or trying to keep him from doing this in the future is obviously racist on my part because he is black)

ion well, because I chose not to stop the discussion between them, so it went on for quite a while, and the Students of Color apparently interpreted my silence to mean I wasn’t supporting them.”

Because as we all know, not supporting them in everything means you’re obviously a racist. All whites be rayciss! Criticizing the Obamessiah be rayciss!

And these offended “People of Color” are assholes. They get the award this week.