Posted on 06/15/2020 8:40:08 AM PDT by Zenyatta
In the war for social justice, academic freedom is an early casualty.
Consider the plight of UCLA Accounting Professor Gordon Klein.
A student sent Klein an email, screenshots of which were reviewed by Inside Higher Ed, that asked for "no-harm" grading for the final exam. (That term means counting a grade only if it improves a student's overall course grade.) The student also asked for shorter exams and extended deadlines for black students who attended protests after the death of George Floyd.
Inside Higher Ed described the email as "a request from students who identified themselves as nonblack allies of their black peers."
Klein wrote back that he "gives black students special treatment" and then asked for the names of black classmates; he had been conducting class online and wasn't sure about students' ethnicity.
Klein also wondered if some white students, say those from Minneapolis, might be traumatized and in need of an edge as well. And what of students of mixed race? He questioned how he could give a "no-harm" test when the final exam is the only exam of the semester. And he wondered how Martin Luther King Jr. might have reacted to the suggestion that students be evaluated based on the "color of their skin."
A complaint was lodged. On June 3, UCLA suspended Klein until June 24 to give administrators time to consider the complaint. Anderson School of Management Dean Antonio Bernardo wrote that it appeared Klein had "disregard for our core principles, including an abuse of power."
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That ship sailed a long time ago.
My babble is just as important if not more important then your well reasoned and researched opinion - Stacey White (ok she didn’t say that exactly... but she would.
You see the times when the world went into intellectual darkness and followed nonsense through history.
Academics claimed it was because of superstition or a sacking of the area by brainless savages.
I suspect it was and is mans hubris - that the intellectuals in the respective times made an ouroboros out of their own logic and imploded.
Might also explain the Tower of Babel...
This conflict will escalate. Many more will suffer before it is resolved.
Yes, this is why the academics are the first sent to the gulags.
The interesting plot, will be to watch their organizers try and reign them in, when they come knocking at their palace doors.
I lurk on their forums and see what their leaders are saying...they are pissed that the Democrats have not totally embraced defunding the police and just want to paper over the issue with some changes to guidelines.
They are going to tear down the DNC and establishment completely. The communists hate them almost as much as they hate us.
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