He spent easily 45 minutes talking about how we don't appreciate our "democracy" and how China was le evil communist dictatorship in which people are at the mercy of the see see pee and you could get disappeared if you weren't friendly to them. Also mentioned how "Hitler was elected democratically" and the CPSU had the record for killing their own citizens.

I stg CS degrees are fash primers and petty bourgeoisie incubators

In a better world I would've had the confidence to speak up against his nonsense, but I got some serious anxiety and no one to back me up

Worst part is I have to attend classes or I automatically fail the subject, as if we were still in elementary school

  • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    You need to be smart about this, but there's plenty you could do with a simple complaint that your professor wastes class time to talk about irrelevant things.

    If you are in the US or UK, you should remember to include that class time is paid at a premium rate by you or your parents.

    Also tell them you do not feel that the material being delivered adequately prepares you for exams. Or the time spent on these comments could have been utilized for revision or new knowledge instead.

    And that these kinds of rants create a hostile learning environment. Especially to people from countries targeted by your prof's rants (i.e. Chinese students). Also mention that your prof's empassioned attitude during these speeches makes you feel unsure about discussing the issue with him directly, since he might perceive you as an ideological enemy and make achieving your academic goals difficult for you (and then stress that you make your complaint anonymously for this reason).

    Use a couple examples to demonstrate how his rant was irrelevant to the curicullum supposingly being delivered, and emphasize the time spent on these things.

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Send an anonymous note about his rampant sinophobia to the administration. Probably wouldn't fly in the uni near me because we have a high population of Chinese students. Not sure what the demographic is in your area, though.

    • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      In my area it's mostly whites, arabs and Latin Americans. I have 0 confidence an anonymous complaint could do anything substantial. Maybe I can get him to stfu about politics during class. I'll see what I can do when I can shake off my anger and stop overthinking about this morning.

      • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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        9 months ago

        A letter isn't a terrible idea but it's probably libs youre writing to so less sinophobia and more detailing your professor's "unprofessional behavior" leading to decreased class time to value ratio and creating a hostile environment bc hitler or some shit.

        Im pretty fluent in lib ;D

        He'll have to explain himself then and perhaps remember to stay in his lane going forward.

  • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Has your cryptography professor something to say to the crypto wars? It was not a long time ago. How democratic is it to weaken encryption algorithms or only allow to export weak ones? Why are there worries about the nistp256/nistp512p curves? If Europe is not happy with end-to-end encryption, then it is only cause of democratic reasons, or?

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Shit like this makes me glad my CS professors didn't/don't bring up politics. The closest to a political thing I heard recently was a professor saying that the location of the conference he was going to present his research at had to move because it was originally scheduled to be in Hong Kong during the riots. Basically, "we were gonna do it in Hong Kong but then the riots happened, so we had to do it somewhere else".