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CT: You know where you got that shirt from, and it damn sure wasn't the men's dept

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I was showing a scene yesterday from Robin Hood: Men in Tights and not a single one of my students had ever even heard of Dave Chappelle
 
This moment is almost as shocking to me as in 2012 when not a single one of my students had ever held a newspaper.
 
wakephan09 said:
This moment is almost as shocking to me as in 2012 when not a single one of my students had ever held a newspaper.
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was honestly a little shocked this semester when three people in my mass comm class of 40 said they had ever picked up the campus paper
 
wakephan09 said:
I was showing a scene yesterday from Robin Hood: Men in Tights and not a single one of my students had ever even heard of Dave Chappelle
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and I remember freshman year at Wake that campus was silent on Chappelle's Show nights, everyone was watching. p sure it was season 2 because I recall everyone doing Rick James and Lil' John impressions.
 
BarcaDeac said:
and I remember freshman year at Wake that campus was silent on Chappelle's Show nights, everyone was watching. p sure it was season 2 because I recall everyone doing Rick James and Lil' John impressions.
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The impact of that dude just walking away and not taking the giant fucking pile of money to sell out is an awesome example.

He was so fucking huge when he pumped the brakes.
 
wfudkn said:
What were you using from MiT in class?
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The "men in tights" song. Talking about how our conceptions of what is funny change over time, especially based on our attention to social issues. The secret twist (every good class has one!) was then for a student to notice Chapelle and point to his recent Netflix controversy. But nope
 
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What kory said, yes, but also I think a decade ago was even a different time. That class in particular was all first-generation and English language learners so I'm thinking their familial and cultural backgrounds also had something to do with it.

But like, a newspaper! My mind was blown. Though I can't remember the last time I held one either. A dozen of y'all even do the NYT crossword on your phones!
 
TenaciousKory said:
late millennials and zoomers generally don't sub to newspapers, don't want to carry them around, and don't like the environmental impact of daily print is what they've told me
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I get not subscribing to the paper, but for an entire class to never have held a single newspaper in 2012 is bananas
 
gotta start talking to the youngins about their media consumption habits
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
I get not subscribing to the paper, but for an entire class to never have held a single newspaper in 2012 is bananas
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yeah, not 2021...2012. That's impossible to believe. Didn't you teach like 14-15 year olds? The internet barely existed when they were born.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
long, but on my to-read list (from 2013): https://believermag.com/if-he-hollers-let-him-go/
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Chappelle didn’t seem to understand that these rumors of drugs and insanity, though paternalistic, were just the result of disbelief and curiosity. Like Salinger’s retreat from fame, Chappelle’s departure demanded an explanation: how could any human being have the willpower, the chutzpah, the determination to refuse the amount of money rumored to be Chappelle’s next paycheck: fifty million dollars. Say it with me now. Fifty. Million. Dollars. When the dust settled, and Chappelle had done interviews with Oprah and James Lipton in an attempt to recover his image and tell his story, two things became immediately apparent: Dave Chappelle is without a doubt his generation’s smartest comic, and the hole he left in comedy is so great that even ten years later very few people can accept the reason he later gave for leaving fame and fortune behind: he wanted to find a simpler way of life.
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They never even touched a free one at a restaurant or whatever? Or grabbed a stack for lighting firewood?
 
Read above my suspicions about why that was the case. I still ask every time I teach this particular class and haven't had quite so surprising a response since.

I also posted about this the very day it happened in 2012 and have mentioned it on here several times since then. Really life-changing moment for me
 
maybe the story is being exaggerated from "none of my students has ever read a physical newspaper"
 
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