Tarot cards and pendulums may be okay, but please remember; Laura researched channeling for some 30 years before using a ouija board. And, she has the knowledge to be able to tell when something isn't right or something bad is coming through by way of her having been a hypnotherapist and having done exorcisms. Ouija boards are not to be played with. Too many "things" from other places can come through.
Just to illustrate what a rabbit-hole the PC/cultural sensitivity paranoia is, and how screwed up the American academic system has become:
USC Professor Placed on Leave after Black Students Complained His Pronunciation of a Chinese Word Affected Their Mental Health
USC Professor Placed on Leave after Black Students Complained His Pronunciation of a Chinese Word Affected Their Mental Health
The University of Southern California has placed a communications professor on leave after a group of black MBA candidates threatened to drop his class rather than "endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities” following...news.yahoo.com
Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of “filler words” in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, “If you have a lot of ‘ums and errs,’ this is culturally specific, so based on your native language. Like in China, the common word is ‘that, that, that.’ So in China it might be ‘nèi ge, nèi ge, nèi ge.’”
In an August 21 email to university administration obtained by National Review, students accused the professor of pronouncing the word like the N-word “approximately five times” during the lesson in each of his three communication classes and said he “offended all of the Black members of our Class.”
The students, who identified themselves as “Black MBA Candidates c/o 2022” wrote that they had reached out to Chinese classmates as they were “appalled” by what they had heard.
The students added that the incident “has impacted our ability to focus adequately on our studies.”
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The n word is the number #1 offensive word in the American culture. This isn't a new thing. It's been like this since the days of Martin Luther King Jr. How many black Americans have been called the n word? Every single one? No American can claim ignorance that the n word is offensive, especially at some wannabe prestigious school. That's one end of the spectrum.
The intention argument may work for a Chinese teen speaking Chinese. It doesn't work for a culture and language wannabe expert teaching subtle forms of communication in a supposedly prestigious American institution. Such a person acting in a public and representative capacity is imputed with the knowledge that he is saying the n word 4 times in a roll. What's next at USC? The George Bush endowed professor of business etiquette throwing up on the students? The girl in the green scarf business savings professor going on an Armani shopoholic binge right in middle of lecture? A guess it's nothing a million dollar bribe can't fix.
