Retired Law Prof Asks ABA to Censure Law School for Suspending Prof Over Use of ‘N’ Word
“using a racial epithet in a context that was neither gratuitous nor directed at an individual as a slur”
This happened at Emory University. The suspended prof used the ‘N’ word in context, while teaching.
The Daily Report has the story:
ABA Asked to Censure Emory for Suspending Law Prof Over Racial Slur
A retired law professor has called on the American Bar Association and the American Association of University Professors to censure Emory University and place it on academic probation over its treatment of a law professor for his utterance of a racial slur.
In defending suspended Emory law professor Paul Zwier, professor emeritus William Carney asked that the university be disciplined after he said the law school and university administrators punished the law professor—and violated his academic freedom—for using a racial epithet in a context that was neither gratuitous nor directed at an individual as a slur.
Carney also included lengthy exhibits with his letter documenting Zwier’s own account of how he used the slur in a torts class while discussing an offensive battery civil case. The professor later used a variation of the slur in a private conversation with a black student, who had called for his resignation, during which Zwier shared that he had been called a “n—-r lover” when he was young because of his parents’ support for civil rights, Carney’s letter said. …
In calling for Emory to be put on academic probation, Carney noted that, when the law school dean sent an open letter to the Emory law community last August condemning Zwier and later suspended him, “There was no discussion of the context or teaching purpose of the use of the word.” “It is clear that Professor Zwier used the ‘N word’ in a teaching context, discussing how cultural changes have made the use of certain words potentially actionable without physical context,” Carney said.
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It is apparent that the following “N” words are appropriate in describing the schools position:
Ninnys
Nincompoops
Nitwits
Is “Ne’er-do-wells” a single word for these purposes.
Back in the 60s, I broke up a fight between two Negro/African-American/Whatever term is in vogue TODAY. The setting was in an elementary school.
When I asked who started it and why, one student pointed to the other and said, “He called me BLACK!”
So, what label shall we use tomorrow?
It seems that, with each passing day, the Left’s goose-stepping, jackbooted perpetual/contrived grievance brigade plumbs new depths of infantile and utterly doctrinaire totalitarianism.