I got a doozy of a webmaster@uakron.edu email recently. The sole text consisted of these words that I unfortunatly quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Do you happen too have a retard level?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The page they had been on referenced a “fundamentals of…” program – so, roughly translated they were likely looking for an even more remedial approach to the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m a fast thinker and a fast typist, but this one took me a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, I ignored the horrible and crude language and just did my damn job. I assumed they didn’t know any better and responded by asking them to clarify what they were looking for so that I could route them to the appropiate department or resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They never got back to me and I’m hoping that maybe they did realize that what they said was offensive – to basically every decent human being – and didn’t expect that a real human would be behind that form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there was one there. And he did his job, even if it broke him a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am tired of the willful ignorance and the cruelty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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