Modern Educayshun
Why Hacker News recommends it
It is cited as a comedic parody of diversity and inclusion initiatives in threads on those topics.
What it is
Neel Kolhatkar's satirical short film parodies modern education and political correctness. It shows how obsession with inclusive speech makes plain communication difficult.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Cites calvinbhai · 2017-12 · on “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'
Cites MrBlueIncognito · 2022-04 · on “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.
Cites TacticalCoder · 2024-10 · on “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]
Cites TacticalCoder · 2026-04 · on “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 "patri
Critical eva1984 · 2016-05 · on “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]