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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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To: nonliberal
I hate Duke with a passion. That school can burn to the ground and I would drive across the country with marshmallows.

I'll bring the graham crackers and chocolate.

41 posted on 05/18/2015 9:58:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The "legacy of slavery" is not an excuse for inexcusable behavior. --Thomas Sowell)
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To: ifinnegan

I agree, that did sound rather disjointed.

Actually, I am so tired of this racial break-down nonsense, that I don’t care if he listed ‘the Whites’ or not. I don’t have a problem with equal time, so if he had done it, it would have been fine with me.

Not trying to pass judgement on your suggestion because I think it makes sense.


42 posted on 05/18/2015 10:44:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’ll bring bananas.


43 posted on 05/18/2015 10:52:58 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank you for the correction notification. Interesting...


44 posted on 05/18/2015 1:58:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Albion Wilde

OMGosh! That’s weirdly funny. How about this part....

“Joseph and Keana say they will never shop at Walmart again.”

Wonder how that’s working for them?


45 posted on 05/18/2015 4:43:54 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: MagnoliaB

Yeah, that’ll show Walmart!


46 posted on 05/18/2015 6:38:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The "legacy of slavery" is not an excuse for inexcusable behavior. --Thomas Sowell)
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To: DoughtyOne

I share view.

I was pointing out what they call the optics.


47 posted on 05/19/2015 8:32:41 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan
It sounds strange to write “the Blacks” rather than just blacks.

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

"The Blacks" is said quite a bit here on FR. And it does sound strange.

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.




48 posted on 05/23/2015 10:50:40 PM PDT by rdb3 (THY KINGDOM COME!)
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