Prof’s Lawsuit Alleges He Was Fired for Calling Handout on Microaggressions ‘Garbage’
“Don’t leave garbage lying around”
The progressive agenda must not be questioned or ridiculed in any way.
The College Fix reports:
Public university fired professor for calling microaggressions handout ‘garbage’: lawsuit
The University of North Texas fired a full-time math professor for the weighty crime of disagreeing with fliers on “microaggressions,” according to a First Amendment lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court.
Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Nathaniel Hiers alleges the taxpayer-funded institution rescinded his spring contract “without notice” for making a joke. UNT retaliated against him, engaged in content- and viewpoint-based discrimination, and attempted to compel speech from him.
When Hiers noticed “a stack of fliers” on microaggressions in the department faculty lounge in November, he read them and found the ideas wanting. Then he wrote “Don’t leave garbage lying around” in jest on a chalkboard, with arrows pointing to the fliers (above), according to the suit.
The fliers come from the University of New Hampshire’s ADVANCE program to support female faculty in STEM disciplines, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.
The first two pages focus on “gender microaggressions” and appear to have been compiled internally at UNH from various internet sources. The last two attribute their content to a 2010 work by the main popularizer of the microaggressions concept, Columbia psychologist Derald Wing Sue, who has publicly criticized colleges for using his research in “punitive” ways.
The fliers claimed that certain phrases are microaggressions that “propagate the ‘myth of meritocracy’ and promote ‘color blindness.’” They include “America is a melting pot,” “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” and “America is the land of opportunity.”
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Disclosing the truth in a Politically Correct academic setting now results in career capital punishment. Academic administrators are even more leftist than their faculty members. The only way to try to achieve fairness and free speech is to sue them and make them personally responsible for forcing students and faculty to endorse their politics.
I hope the verdict is for the prof, and is huge!
The professor should learn the difference between garbage and trash.