I've been facing a similar situation for the last four years. I'm a film student in Arizona, of all places. It's hard. Especially when you realize that you're the only conservative in the room. And I'm not even hard-core, I always tell people at school that I'm Republican-lite. It's really up to you and the relationship you have with the teacher whether you feel it's worth it to go talk to him or just grin and bear it. I was lucky a few times with teachers that I could go and talk to, when I did that I was very calm and was kind of like "Look, I understand that the majority of the room is more to the left, but when things devolve into a political debate that ends with name calling, I'm not okay with that. I'm not a democrat or a liberal." And sometimes that goes over well, I had one teacher who would pull me aside sometimes after class if things had gotten heated and apologize that things got out of hand. I'm not one who debates, I try to keep quiet and just get through it, because there's no point in arguing with people who so blatantly disagree and aren't going to concede any point.
I had another teacher that I'm actually really good friends with and one day this kid in my class and I were off doing group work and he started saying all these things about republicans and how everyone on the right is racist. And I finally said something to which he told me to "shut the f-up." I got up and left the room, because I'll take a lot of things but I won't be spoken to like that. Well after class someone said something to the teacher and he asked me to explain what happened. And I started to explain the gist of it and he cut me off and said "Oh, were you expelling the wisdom of Glenn Beck?" That was actually the only time I've ever gotten smart with a teacher.
And there's a teacher now who gets up and goes on about how evil capitalism controls Hollywood. Right after those speeches he mentions the big plasma tv he recently got and how he's publishing a book soon. It takes everything in me to not stand up and scream "hypocrite!" Then today we were talking about LA and he asked "what does LA have a huge quantity of?" and a few people answered "Illegal immigrants." To which he replied "illegal, legal, no real difference." UHM?
It's hard and it really really sucks to have to hesitate like this when you've been offended. But it really is a matter of the factors. Your relationship with the teacher, if he seems like the kind who would take it out on your grade. I'd suggest waiting and see if it happens again, if it becomes a trend, I would definitely say something.
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:23 am (UTC)I had another teacher that I'm actually really good friends with and one day this kid in my class and I were off doing group work and he started saying all these things about republicans and how everyone on the right is racist. And I finally said something to which he told me to "shut the f-up." I got up and left the room, because I'll take a lot of things but I won't be spoken to like that. Well after class someone said something to the teacher and he asked me to explain what happened. And I started to explain the gist of it and he cut me off and said "Oh, were you expelling the wisdom of Glenn Beck?" That was actually the only time I've ever gotten smart with a teacher.
And there's a teacher now who gets up and goes on about how evil capitalism controls Hollywood. Right after those speeches he mentions the big plasma tv he recently got and how he's publishing a book soon. It takes everything in me to not stand up and scream "hypocrite!" Then today we were talking about LA and he asked "what does LA have a huge quantity of?" and a few people answered "Illegal immigrants." To which he replied "illegal, legal, no real difference." UHM?
It's hard and it really really sucks to have to hesitate like this when you've been offended. But it really is a matter of the factors. Your relationship with the teacher, if he seems like the kind who would take it out on your grade. I'd suggest waiting and see if it happens again, if it becomes a trend, I would definitely say something.