Princeton professor under fire for using n-word during lecture

NY Post ^ | February 9, 2018 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[EinNYC]

An anthropology professor at Princeton University allegedly used the n-word multiple times during a lecture this week, prompting several students to walk out and an expletive-laced in-class confrontation.

Several students told The Daily Princetonian that professor Lawrence Rosen used the word “n—-r” when asking a question Tuesday during his anthropology 212 course, “Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy and Pornography.”

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

In that context, he would have to say the word. Nobody ever says, “You’re an n-word.”

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The kids at Princeton are actually taking out loans or spending Mom and Dad’s money for this? During my travels when I was at that age, I got my education in the subject from the writings on men’s room stalls at rest areas and truck stops. I even saw some of it scrawled on the walls of Johnny Appleseed’s cabin in Fort Wayne.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks EinNYC. Wow, talk about missin' the point, eh?

[EinNYC]

It was not used as an epithet. It wasn’t directed at anyone. It even compared the use of the work with physical violence. He wasn’t encouraging its use or diminishing the impact that the word has.

The professor was having what was supposed to be a clinical discussion about the impact of hate words. He was not hurling epithets at students. It was equivalent to an anatomy professor using words like "breast", "penis", etc. Would HE be accused of sexual harassment? I doubt it. The vocabulary used by the anatomy professor would be perfectly in line as the correct names for those parts, and the vocabulary used by the Princeton professor was perfectly in line as an example of a hate word. The students who reacted were exceedingly immature, oversheltered, not-ready-for-college snowflakes, undoubtedly the scions of libtard parents who don't have better uses for their money.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Grievance-collectors.....

[SFConservative]

Did you notice at the end of the story how the chairwoman of the anthropology department, in her defense of Professor Rosen, blamed this incident on Trump?

“Rosen has used the same example year after year. This is the first year he got the response he did from the students. This is diagnostic of the level of overt anti-black racism in the country today. Anti-American and anti-Semitic examples did not upset the students, but an example of racism did. This did not happen when Obama was president, when the example seemed less real and seemed to have less power.”

[ViLaLuz]

“black people are free to use the word NIGGER while everyone else is rendered into a second-class citizen.”

Ironically the word “nigger” was originally defined as “second class citizen.”