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Duke University Professor on Leave After Racist Online Comments Spark Outrage [Racist?]
Slate ^ | May 17, 2015 | Daniel Politi

Posted on 05/17/2015 11:15:51 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

A Duke University professor has reportedly been placed on leave after posting racist comments online that included talk of “the blacks” and “the Asians.” Jerry Hough commented on a New York Times editorial titled “How Racism Doomed Baltimore”

...The key question,though,according to Hough, “is whether my comments were largely accurate. In writing me, no one has said I was wrong, just racist.”

....full comments in the New York Times:

This editorial is what is wrong. The Democrats are an alliance of Westchester and Harlem,of Montgomery County and intercity Baltimore. Westchester and Montgomery get a Citigroup asset stimulus policy that triples the market. The blacks get a decline in wages after inflation.

But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white. The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.

In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word "colored." The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.

So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn't feel sorry for themselves,but worked doubly hard.

I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.

It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state. King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; US: New York
KEYWORDS: achievement; asians; assimilation; education; jerryhough; pc; racism; theblacks; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 05/17/2015 11:15:52 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When I saw the guy was put on leave, I knew it wasn’t a Black professor.

Checked it out. I was right.


2 posted on 05/17/2015 11:19:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Standing O for that man!


3 posted on 05/17/2015 11:22:37 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: DoughtyOne

So, what exactly was “noxious and offensive” about his comments? Maybe the mayor really IS a fine public servant! Good thing he did not start talking about bell curves...of course if he had said the mayor has curves like a bell, well that might be in poor taste! /sarcasm;)


4 posted on 05/17/2015 11:27:44 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: abb

More shenanigans from Duke.


5 posted on 05/17/2015 11:28:42 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Slate has two wings

Both are Left wings

6 posted on 05/17/2015 11:33:44 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: Frank_2001

The big problem as I see it, was that he used the terms “Blacks” and “Asians” as he made some blanket statements.

It was a bit disjointed, but he made some interesting points. I think they were somewhat accurate, at least worthy of consideration.

People are hyper sensitive about race these days. I don’t think people should be mean using racial terms, but there are a variety of concepts and ideas that should be aired.

It might make some people uncomfortable, but in all honesty, Blacks need to hear some things said these days.

They seem to think Whites are the only ones who need to listen. Boy are they wrong.


7 posted on 05/17/2015 11:42:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I don’t see anything wrong with his comments. Duke is looking silly over this.


8 posted on 05/17/2015 11:45:11 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott
The Left MUST keep the "racist" ball in the air. It's coloring (if I may say that w/o being called racist) everything that they do - it's their campaigning "squirrel" and they will continue to beat that drum (if I may saty that w/o being called racist) - ratchet up the shamming and blaming.

Ronald Reagan doesn’t live here anymore: Why it’s high time liberals stop tiptoeing around race

9 posted on 05/17/2015 11:56:35 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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>> So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves,but worked doubly hard.

The color depth in the US will likely contract as South American labor supplants the Black minority by virtue of ambition and fertility.


10 posted on 05/17/2015 11:58:42 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Other than dividing people over things like race, the democrats have nothing to offer.


11 posted on 05/18/2015 12:00:41 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Realtalk must be punished severely.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


12 posted on 05/18/2015 12:09:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Brian Moore was an exemplary cop. Let his conduct be the example for Baltimore police to follow.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And this is while race isn’t discussed in America Mr. Holder!


13 posted on 05/18/2015 12:48:28 AM PDT by dila813
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To: DoughtyOne

It sounds strange to write “the Blacks” rather than just blacks.

He ought have included a “the whites” in in somewhere.


14 posted on 05/18/2015 12:51:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I thought Holder et al wanted to have a national conversation on race? I guess it is a conversations where there are certain things you are not allowed to say.


15 posted on 05/18/2015 1:00:00 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I call that “Vicious Truthing.”


16 posted on 05/18/2015 1:21:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There are far worse things in the world than racism.


17 posted on 05/18/2015 1:22:17 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Frank_2001

What was noxious and offensive? The truth he spoke.

Using “blacks” or “Asians” isn’t racist, perhaps adding “the” in front of each brings up connotations of “the gays” or similar - difficult to tell. All I know is I will not use hyphenated American under any circumstance.

The real bugaboo here is truth hurts, these cries of “racism” are their only available defense. Had he really wanted to be racist, there are many other words out there that could have been used. We’ll next see the use of “they, them, and their” being called racist. Why? because the don’t want the truth spoken, period.

This country is becoming a nation of moral and ethical cowards who stoop to tactics like this when they just don’t like reality. Were the situation reversed you wouldn’t see them [there I go with it] out there castigating one of their own for using “white” in a negative context -even if it was appended with “mother f@cker”.

Free speech notwithstanding, when you effectively ban words, you create a constantly changing lexicon that creates even more division. Ban words? Next comes books, then book burning..................you know the rest..


18 posted on 05/18/2015 1:35:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ifinnegan

“........’I don’t know if you will find anyone to agree with me,’ he said in an email to The News & Observer. ‘Anyone who says anything is a racist and ignorant as I was called by a colleague. The question is whether you want to get involved in the harassment and few do. I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.’

Duke spokesman Michael Schoenfeld distanced the university from the professor’s comments, but also pointed out academic freedom provisions in Duke’s Faculty Handbook.

‘The point I was raising was why the Asians who were oppressed did so well and are integrating so well, and the blacks are not doing as well,’ Hough wrote in the email.

He added that his comment was not expressed as he hoped it would be.

‘There were typos in my outrage towards [the editorial] and I could have been more careful (though hard in the space limits),’ he wrote.”...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3085508/Professor-comments-African-Americans-misunderstood.html


19 posted on 05/18/2015 1:35:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: equaviator

Somehow, with all this protection against words, I am reminded of India, where cows are sacred and allowed to do as they please.


20 posted on 05/18/2015 1:36:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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