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Princeton professor under fire for using n-word during lecture
NY Post ^ | February 9, 2018 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 02/09/2018 9:17:50 AM PST by EinNYC

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It's snowing in Princeton, even on a clear day. The students who walked out of this lecture don't belong at Princeton. One wonders if they were admitted on the basis of some stupid "diversity" quota. A great university can rightfully expect a modicum of common courtesy, to say nothing of some open-mindedness, from its students. The course is ABOUT hate speech, blasphemy and pornography. The students signed up to take the course. Did they expect the professor to read them Grimm's fairy tales from a book while they sat in a circle on rugs on the floor? Moreover, not only did one or more of the students get up and walk out, which by itself is rudeness incarnate, but then they returned and confronted the prof with expletive-laced speech. Clearly, those infants don't belong in any sort of college, let alone Princeton. Kingsborough Community College might be more their style.
1 posted on 02/09/2018 9:17:50 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

It was also about pornography. Would they gripe if a nude woman’s or man’s picture appeared on the chalkboard or screen?


2 posted on 02/09/2018 9:20:35 AM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: EinNYC

Wait.

University students are shocked a professor used the “N-word” in a course called, “Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy and Pornography”?????

SNOWFLAKES.


3 posted on 02/09/2018 9:24:11 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: EinNYC

It seems the Snowflakes are not happy regardless of the situation surrounding the course. That said, why does Princeton think the world needs a course on hate speech, blasphemy, and pornography?


4 posted on 02/09/2018 9:26:06 AM PST by econjack
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To: EinNYC

I guessed before I looked at the photo, and I was wrong.


5 posted on 02/09/2018 9:31:56 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: EinNYC

Funny thing is that that word is used all the time in the black community. Mothers call their misbehaving children that. And men call each other that in jest. A man may call a black “low life” one. Or comedians like Chris Rock will do a whole routine on that word alone.

So, its really only offensive if white people say it. But white people were saying it without offense taken for hundreds of years. Hollywood changed its meaning in the 60s and 70s. It was not that derogatory before then.


6 posted on 02/09/2018 9:32:35 AM PST by poinq
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A college professor was known to curse in class. In protest all the female students decided to leave the next time he cursed.

The professor got word of the protest so at the next class he said “Have you heard about the boat load of whores that went to Africa?”. All the girls started filing out. He said “Hang on, ladies. The boat doesn’t leave till 4:30.”


7 posted on 02/09/2018 9:33:23 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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Watched Tarantino’s weak opus “Jackie Brown” last night.

He seems to have been going for the “n-word” record books


8 posted on 02/09/2018 9:39:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Terry Mross

Post of the thread!


9 posted on 02/09/2018 9:41:31 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: EinNYC

They probably don’t own Richard Pryor’s record: “That N-—r is crazy.”


10 posted on 02/09/2018 9:41:49 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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I personally object to the undeniably racist insult to Free Speech the proposes that only black people are free to use the word NIGGER while everyone else is rendered into a second-class citizen.

It’s not a word I will ever use as an epithet but I will absolutely insist on using it when speaking about it. If black people can use it then so can I.


11 posted on 02/09/2018 9:42:34 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: EinNYC

A stroll through Princeton today reveals the Sh!thole it’s become, mainly because of the ragtag, doper, snowflakes and their affirmative action fellow “students.”


12 posted on 02/09/2018 9:45:55 AM PST by Salvey
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To: BenLurkin

That movie is a parody of the black movies of the early 70’s. TV shows and movies used the word all the time back then. Even Baretta and shows like that used it on primetime regular network TV.


13 posted on 02/09/2018 9:50:49 AM PST by poinq
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To: ealgeone

I heard that 30 years ago and it’s still funny.


14 posted on 02/09/2018 9:51:08 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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Many white progressives believe they have license to use this word because they are “down with the struggle.” They are mistaken. The word carries powerful mojo. In this secular world some things never fade.


15 posted on 02/09/2018 9:53:18 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: Terry Mross

Many white progressives believe they have license to use this word because they are “down with the struggle.” They are mistaken. The word carries powerful mojo. In this secular world some things never fade.


16 posted on 02/09/2018 9:53:19 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: EinNYC

He asked the question “What is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a nigger?”

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.

I guess he got the answer to his question though...


17 posted on 02/09/2018 10:04:45 AM PST by sipow
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To: EinNYC

The great uniter obama said ‘nigger’ on national television. What’s the big deal?


18 posted on 02/09/2018 10:24:27 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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You noticed.

There is NO CRIME in words. “Hate” Speech is a phony, Jesse Jackson shakedown, an Orwellian conceit.

When I hear grown adults say “N-word”, instead of using “nigger” during intellectual conversation, they sound like children afraid of a spanking.

Our only hope is that Trump continues to speak without politically correct doublethink. And that the citizens slowly gain the courage to stop doublethinking before speaking themselves.


19 posted on 02/09/2018 10:43:19 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: EinNYC

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...”


20 posted on 02/09/2018 10:46:49 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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