Posted on 10/10/2020 5:27:05 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Instagram account falsely claimed he tried to justify slavery
Global trade has saved countless lives from famine. It has also harmed countless lives through slavery, abuse and disease.
For helping his students think critically about the tradeoffs in the “Columbian Exchange,” Richard Taylor has been deemed to violate St. John’s University’s “Bias, Discrimination, and Harassment” policy.
The adjunct professor of history, a Marine Corps reserveman and former New York City cop, will learn his fate in a meeting with interim Dean Gina Florio on Friday, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The civil liberties group demanded Taylor’s exoneration and return to the classroom “immediately,” in a letter to President Conrado Gempesaw Thursday.
Also a Ph.D. history candidate at St. John’s, Taylor (above) made seven references to slavery and five to “abuse of indigenous populations” in his 46-slide PowerPoint presentation on “trade and biodiversity” Sept. 7. According to FIRE:
The penultimate slide is titled “Negatives to Globalization,” and the enslavement of millions is listed as one of those negatives. The next, and final, slide is the discussion prompt: “Do the positives justify the negatives?”...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Theory: The prof is not a prof of “color”.
I love when the left eats their own. Biodiversity? Yeah, that's the first thing I think of when it comes to trade, NOT. Let them cancel each other out until none of them are left. It applies on so many levels ... shooting in Chicago for instance.
Orwell was only 16 years off!
O.M.G.! Someone who is actually TEACHING! So, of course he needs to be canceled, his students of a 1,000 genders might actually learn something WORTHWHILE!
16? How so?
There is no place in education for feelings (with the possible exception of, the arts)
As with much that is wrong with society today it can be traced back to the 1960s; this obsession with feelings.
Relying on feelings to make a decision will steer you wrong 90% of the time. Rational thinking has been sidelined in education to the detriment of all of society.
The Left has done this intentionally because they know that they can easily manipulate people, especially the young by resorting to emotional arguments.
The emotional arguments of fairness and claims of injustice have the Left’s go to arguments for decades and it has helped them succeed in bringing chaos to our nation and the world.
Keep good records
The Pope certainly seems to think that the “positives” of global enslavement outweigh the negatives.
His book, “2004,” obviously.
Ooops... make that 36! Either fat fingers or that fact that I graduated from Louisiana Tech!
His book, “2004,” obviously.
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Ah, the sequel to “1984”.
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