Current Events > White Teacher tells ASIAN GIRL to CHANGE her NAME cause it's OFFENSIVE! Is it??

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Full Throttle
06/20/20 8:13:52 PM
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Do you find her name "offensive"?


Matthew Hubbard, an old timer Math teacher at a College in Oakland, California is on suspension after he asked his Vietnamese student to ANGLICIZE her name because it was OFFENSIVE!!

He took beef to her name on freshman, 18 y/o Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen as a series of emails were posted by her in her second day of class where he told her her name was offensive because it sounds like an INSULT in English!!

She was nicknamed "May" in high school and is proud of her birth name who was looking forward to using it in college but her professor was not a happy camper and she did not want to change it to please him and said she would respond by filing a Title IX complaint if he didn't quit it.

Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states No person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of or subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance

But Hubbard maintained his objections and then blatantly said "Your name in English sounds like F*** Boy" and even went further with his racism..

She didn't know what Anglicize meant at first so her friend screenshotted it and shared it around on twitter. She said she's never heard of that before and was surprised after googling it and then called her best friend to ask what it meant.

She said "I was shook because growing up they were problems with how to pronounce my name, but they would ask me how to pronounce my name"

She he should have made an effort with his students considering the college has over 17,000 students that are 26% asian, latinx students make up 25%, african americans at 20% and whites is the lowest with 15% of the student body

The college acknowledged the acts as racist and xenophobic messages from their faculty member who is now on admin leave while they investigate

Do you find her name "offensive"?

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Irony
06/20/20 8:15:09 PM
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https://i.imgur.com/Rtop2PF.jpg

Yeah he looks like a racist

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BigSLM1993
06/20/20 8:16:18 PM
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If you pronounce her name CORRECTLY it doesn't sound offensive in English
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eston
06/20/20 8:18:08 PM
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mustachedmystic
06/20/20 8:25:32 PM
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BigSLM1993 posted...
If you pronounce her name CORRECTLY it doesn't sound offensive in English

That may be true, but I can't be the only one that LOL'd when I first read it.

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brestugo
06/20/20 8:29:30 PM
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Had a good friend in college named "Dung"which means "handsome" in Vietnamese (IIRC). We called him something else.
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Lorenzo_2003
06/20/20 8:31:24 PM
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mustachedmystic posted...


That may be true, but I can't be the only one that LOL'd when I first read it.

Lol, youre not the only one.

Anyway, Im having a hard time believing a professor was stupid enough to send that request.

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IHeartRadiation
06/20/20 8:35:15 PM
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Could just call her PB

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eston
06/20/20 8:38:31 PM
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brestugo posted...
Had a good friend in college named "Dung"which means "handsome" in Vietnamese (IIRC). We called him something else.
I used to know a guy named Dat Ho and people were awful to him

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Number090684
06/20/20 8:43:00 PM
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Bet he was dying to have this conversation with her just so he could mention the word "fuck", they could talk about it, and maybe he could try to get laid. Sick old bastard.

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Guide
06/20/20 8:45:14 PM
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Exactly what I imagined he'd look like lmao

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SwayM
06/20/20 8:48:34 PM
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Number090684 posted...
Bet he was dying to have this conversation with her just so he could mention the word "fuck", they could talk about it, and maybe he could try to get laid. Sick old bastard.

What the fuck...the fact that you concocted this out of nothing is worrying

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Kastrada
06/20/20 8:52:01 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3RZgpoGEU

Interesting. Also that guy deserves to be fired.

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Shotgunnova
06/20/20 9:01:00 PM
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Full Throttle posted...
https://i.imgur.com/7EUZbRP.jpg
BTFO

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Smackems
06/20/20 9:03:05 PM
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Lmao

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Kastrada
06/20/20 9:06:44 PM
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Captain_Qwark posted...
What's the correct way to pronounce that?

See my Post #14

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Irony
06/20/20 9:08:41 PM
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Captain_Qwark posted...
What's the correct way to pronounce that?
Fuck boy apparently

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brestugo
06/20/20 9:09:03 PM
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eston posted...
I used to know a guy named Dat Ho and people were awful to him
The guy I knew was so cool that he never to my knowledge got any shit for his name. Plus it was college. Maybe he got shit in JHS or HS but not in in college when I knew him.

Still, he went by another name to new aquaintances...
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Infinite 2003
06/20/20 9:10:17 PM
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Reminds me of another asain girl I used to work with named Bich

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TomNook20
06/20/20 9:13:15 PM
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BigSLM1993 posted...
If you pronounce her name CORRECTLY it doesn't sound offensive in English
According to the video just posted this is completely false.

Anyway professor needs to stop being such a whiny bitch and say her name.

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RetsuZaiZen
06/20/20 9:15:24 PM
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What an idiot

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Vicious_Dios
06/20/20 9:17:47 PM
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16-BITTER posted...
fuck boi


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Solo_Wing
06/20/20 9:21:16 PM
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Kastrada
06/20/20 9:29:50 PM
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TomNook20 posted...
According to the video just posted this is completely false.

The video I posted that says in the first 30 seconds it's not offensive-sounding in the English language?

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brestugo
06/20/20 9:38:31 PM
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Solo_Wing posted...

Reminds me of the time I worked graveyard shift with a guy with the last name "Peters". One night at least 2 different people called up and recited "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater". One person was very drunk.

This happened maybe 4 -6 times between 1 and 4 am. I laughed it off but my coworker - "Mr Peters"was oddly silent.

Shift ends, we're replaced - Mr. Peters left without comment - and I walk to my car. Like 4 cars over in the parking lot, I hear my softspoken, mild-mannered co-worker shouting "AND I'M TELLING YOU, IF YOU EVER SAY PETER, PETER PUMPKIN EATER AGAIN, I WILL GOUGE YOUR FUCKING EYES OUT!!!".

I laughed all the way home.
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Irony
06/20/20 9:39:39 PM
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Kastrada posted...
The video I posted that says in the first 30 seconds it's not offensive-sounding in the English language?
And proceeds to pronounce it in a way that's offensive-sounding in the English language

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Kastrada
06/20/20 9:44:14 PM
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Irony posted...
And proceeds to pronounce it in a way that's offensive-sounding in the English language

Except it ends with a p/b sound and not a c-k ending.

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crennigo
06/20/20 9:54:48 PM
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Relevant:
https://youtu.be/VhQhZyNKqhM

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mrduckbear
06/21/20 12:01:19 PM
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most say no
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ViewtifulGrave
06/21/20 1:33:15 PM
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I can somewhat relate. Im half Nigerian and my last name is Akunna. Most peoples first thought is to say Hakunna Mattata.

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Hayame Zero
06/21/20 1:37:49 PM
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She probably already gets jokes about how it looks to English speakers, and now she has someone of authority who tells her it's "offensive" and is actually bothered by it. That would make her feel even worse.

Dude's a snowflake asshole.

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BigSLM1993
06/21/20 1:41:37 PM
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Kastrada posted...
Except it ends with a p/b sound and not a c-k ending.

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DeadBankerDream
06/21/20 1:43:56 PM
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Was he fired and brutally savaged yet? It's been a day at least since I first read this story, so there should have been enough time.
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1NfamousACE_2
06/21/20 1:47:47 PM
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Would have just called her by her last name and moved on

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mech dragon
06/21/20 1:55:26 PM
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There are literally people in English speaking countries named Dick that dont get asked to change their name (or change their name only on their own accord) so his argument is hella weak.

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Rimmer_Dall
06/21/20 1:56:19 PM
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boxington
06/21/20 1:57:03 PM
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this is the ultimate form of entitlement - your name, which stems from your culture, offends me. can you please make some alterations to appease my sensibilities?

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ZeroX91
06/21/20 1:57:30 PM
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How does angelicize sound remotely close to any insult?

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ASithLord7
06/21/20 1:57:50 PM
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ZeroX91 posted...
How does angelicize sound remotely close to any insult?
Are you actually illiterate or is it an act?

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OffTempo
06/21/20 1:58:58 PM
#43:


ZeroX91 posted...
How does angelicize sound remotely close to any insult?
It sounds like "whiten up your name, youre in my country now"

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ZeroX91
06/21/20 2:00:29 PM
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OffTempo posted...
It sounds like "whiten up your name, youre in my country now"
That woild be anglecize not angelacize

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Prestoff
06/21/20 2:00:30 PM
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Kastrada posted...
Except it ends with a p/b sound and not a c-k ending.

And the U is the long sounding vowel, not a short sounding one. I mean for goodness sakes all the professor had to do was fucking ask what was the correct way to pronounce her name instead of demanding her to change it. Almost every professor I had that couldn't say "Nguyen" correctly would simply ask how to say it and I would gladly correct them so they would know for future students how to say it (it's not absolute way to pronounce it, but you can say "win" and you'll be more correct than any other person who says "Nu-guy-in"). You don't know how many times a business deal goes awry when one of my coworkers proceed to pronounce a "foreign" sounding name wrong. Saying a foreign sounding name correctly earns you a shit ton of respect believe it or not because it shows you're educated and have a lot of life experience talking to different people. If you don't know, simply by asking how to pronounce the name will show your willingness to learn so when a different person with the same name ever shows up again, you can pronounce it correctly. It's basic 101,

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pick4six
06/21/20 2:02:47 PM
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I would tell him to fuck off and do his job and not gatekeep petty ass shit. I knew a girl with a funny name she had As all around and participated in extra curricular activities and have zero fucks about what her name was you know why? It is 0.00000001% of what defines them as a human

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HylianFox
06/21/20 2:03:35 PM
#47:


Irony posted...
Yeah he looks like a racist

Looks like someone who shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a playground

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KamenRiderBlade
06/21/20 2:06:42 PM
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She needs to repeatedly kick him in the gonads until he understands that people aren't going to change their names because it sounds different/offensive in a another language.

People need to respect the original language and get over themselves.

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Mareen
06/21/20 2:27:58 PM
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8 ignorant racists.

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