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Modern Educayshun

Neel KolhatkarCited 5× on HN, 2016-2026
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20.5M views · 11 years ago · comedy · dated

Neel Kolhatkar's satirical short film parodies modern education and political correctness. It shows how obsession with inclusive speech makes plain communication difficult.

It is cited as a comedic parody of diversity and inclusion initiatives in threads on those topics.

Satire & parodySocial issues & culture#satire#education#inclusivelanguage#shortfilm#diversity

5 comments from Hacker News

@TacticalCoder2026 · in “The Self-Defeating Condescension of an Anti-Racist Education”

> In a 2019 blog post, I expressed concern that training teachers to recognize “worship of the written word” as “white supremacy culture,” as many equity trainers urged, could alienate students of color from school. 2019... By then some people had already noticed the problem since years and years. Here's Neel Kolhatkar 's take on it in 2016, in this wonderful 7-minutes short satirical movie aptly named "Modern Educayshun" (the realisator plays the main character): ▶ this video I don't know if there's much else to do than laugh about this entire madness of a movement. What disgust me really the most is that those very same who've been trying to portrait heterosexual white men in the west as "patriarchal" and responsible for all evils (vs women, vs men of colors, etc.) are the very same who are turning a complete blind eye on the actual patriarchal societies that do the most horrible things one can imagine. For a reality check, for example: there are 230 million woman that have undergone forced female genital mutilation. And if rounded about 0% of those have been done by white men from the west. And because people have nothing to answer to that, they'll downvote. So yeah: my advice would be... Do like me: pick your fights.

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@TacticalCoder2024 · in “Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?”

I'm pretty sure proper grammar and spelling would already gain you quite some points. An indian-australian's semi-recent take on modern "educayshun": ▶ this video

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@MrBlueIncognito2022 · in “Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken”

▶ this video A short-film/parody on how an extreme obsession with inclusive speech makes it impossible to communicate clearly without consequences.

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@calvinbhai2017 · in “I don’t want to be the pink elephant in the room”

Dear Mallika, Many thanks for writing this article! Totally echoes my thoughts. fwiw, as an Indian male engineer in US, I initially was very enthusiastically thinking "lets go out of our way to support the pink elephants" and later was surprised when some of my peers (female engineers from India in US or of Indian origin) showed utter disinterest in being part of many of these women centric meetups/conferences. They were more enthusiastic to go to conferences that successfully enforced a 'No Asshole Rule' on attendees, followed by attending conferences without 'all male' speakers, than conferences of any other type. (I thought the feedback I received was an outlier, but it is good to know I'm not alone). Hope such articles bring positive changes to improve diversity organically and address the pink elephant syndrome. This article reminded me of this video "Modern Educayshun" (by an Aussie Comedian of Indian origin) ▶ this video . Feels like the video makes a similar point.

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@eva19842016 · in “How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity”

I think I probably guessed which company this is. But this doesn't smell right. Feels like a real-world version of this video: ▶ this video

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