Posted on 02/03/2008 1:34:05 AM PST by forkinsocket
BOSTON—A longtime Brandeis University professor says he has been the victim of "vindictive persecution" by school administrators after he was found in violation of the university's nondiscrimination policy for describing a racist word in one of his classes.
Politics professor Donald Hindley, who has taught at the Waltham school for 47 years, had a monitor placed in his classroom and was asked to undergo sensitivity training after he told students in his Latin American politics class last semester that Mexican migrants are sometimes referred to pejoratively as "wetbacks," according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which is aiding his case.
A student complained to the administration, according to the foundation, which in October found that Hindley had made "statements in class that were inappropriate, racial, and discriminatory."
Hindley also received a letter from Provost Marty Krauss in which he was threatened with termination and told a monitor would observe his classes until Krauss determined he was "able to conduct (himself) appropriately in the classroom."
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education claims that Hindley's free speech rights were violated and his academic freedom was encroached.
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Political Correctness has already rewritten our fairy tales, and then they rewrote history. Now they’re trying to rewrite modern history, current events, and umm... the English language.
What a bad, bad, man.
“Political Correctness has already rewritten our fairy tales, and then they rewrote history. Now they’re trying to rewrite modern history, current events, and umm... the English language.”
Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.
A so-called “tolerance troupe” came to a local high school and used the “N” word from the stage to promote “tolerance.”
They angered a lot of students and the principal didn’t give a rip, because they were promoting “tolerance.”
“Brandeis professor under fire for description of racial epithet”
The headline is misleading. At this point it’s more accurate to say that Brandeis is under fire for violating a professor’s free speech rights.
What he said is true, when I was a kid in Texas, we did not know the term undocumented worker, so the term wetback was used in private conversations.
Last time I looked at a map, Mexico was considered part of Latin American, though the Mexican border seems to have moved north as of late
I wonder if he would be under such scrutiny if he referred to Native Floridians pejoratively as "crackers"
Mexico is in North America.
If describing a pejorative is considered so offensive then the college better start burning all the dictionaries in the library and prohibit them on campus. Not to mention the books where pejoratives are used.
Given a bit more power, the Provost of Brandeis, Mary Krauss, would be the type of person sending the untermensch to the gas chambers.
I wonder if there would have been an uproar and sentencing to sensitivity training if the professor had referred to “paddy wagons” during his tenure?
Mexico is in North America.
Yes, Mexico is in North American but it's considered part of Latin American.
In most common contemporary usage, Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail:, most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Source: Wikipedia
You are being politically correct by not stating that the term nigger was used. You are promoting the same line of reasoning that has a professor jammed up because he said that the term wetback is sometimes used to describe illegal Latino aliens.
If you are fearful of giving a factual rendering of what was said you are supporting political correctness.
Right on. You wrote "Latin American" and I was thinking Central Amreica. (Too early, need more coffee.)
You use an unreliable source.
Welcome to the USSA, comrade. You must learn to love Big Sister.
Political Correctness has already rewritten our fairy tales, and then they rewrote history. Now they’re trying to rewrite modern history, current events, and umm... the English language.
Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
PC ~ written before the inculcation in american academia!!!!
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