Posted on 05/17/2015 11:15:51 PM PDT by 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.
Standing O for that man!
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;)
More shenanigans from Duke.
Both are Left wings
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.
I don’t see anything wrong with his comments. Duke is looking silly over this.
Ronald Reagan doesnt live here anymore: Why its high time liberals stop tiptoeing around race
>> 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.
Other than dividing people over things like race, the democrats have nothing to offer.
Realtalk must be punished severely.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
And this is while race isn’t discussed in America Mr. Holder!
It sounds strange to write “the Blacks” rather than just blacks.
He ought have included a “the whites” in in somewhere.
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.
I call that “Vicious Truthing.”
There are far worse things in the world than racism.
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..
“........’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.”...
Somehow, with all this protection against words, I am reminded of India, where cows are sacred and allowed to do as they please.
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