Posted on 05/15/2021 11:36:42 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
St. John’s professor allegedly fired for reading racial slur from Mark Twain book
In a twist worthy of Mark Twain himself, a St. John’s University professor has been fired for reading a passage containing the N-word from Twain’s anti-slavery novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” in her “Literature of Satire” class.
Hannah Berliner Fischthal, an adjunct instructor at the Catholic college in Queens for 20 years, uttered the N-word once during a remote class Feb. 10 — after she first explained to students the context of the word and said she hoped it would not offend anyone.
“Mark Twain was one of the first American writers to use actual dialect,” Fischthal said. “His use of the ‘N-word’ is used only in dialogues as it could have actually been spoken in the south before the civil war, when the story takes place.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Pudd’nhead Nation”
Sorry - this is BS.
These infantile and socially retarded students (and that’s what they are) along with the limp wristed and yellow bellied school leadership help NO ONE and just hasten this civilization to collapse.
This teacher is a hero.
I bet the teacher didn’t learn a thing and still supports BLM and the left. Even bet she’d be like one of those people being shot yelling “long live Stalin!”.
It’s an ANTI SLAVERY BOOK!!!
...she was “horrified” by the case of another SJU adjunct instructor, Richard Taylor. Taylor was fired earlier this year when students complained that he was racist because of questions he posed during a lesson involving slavery.
“I never thought that would happen to me,” said Fischthal, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. “I’m one of the last people who should be accused of racism. I know where it leads and I know where it ends. In every class I teach the evils of stereotyping.”
She has taught at a university in Queens, NY for 20 years and she was "unaware of how racial politics have exploded at universities around the country." She may be a great teacher, but she is out of touch and certainly not situationally aware. How could she NOT be aware when her college was fired earlier this year? She could benefit from joining FR.
It almost seems like the university wanted to get rid of her and was looking for any excuse and this convenient one dropped in their lap.
The kids are brainwashed- programmed- to fall all to pieces over anything and everything- it’s the parents that are braindead for not teaching their kids how to be touch and not let words hurt them
Garden variety post 9/11 narcissistic children who feel sorry for black people and treat non-existent racism like it’s their first beer. It’s beyond boring!
She sounds like a educated person who handled a work of literature appropriately. But these days, who wants that kind of person teaching at a university? /s
While that may be true, I don't see any evidence of this from the article. In fact, since she was OK with using the N-word in a proper academic setting, I think it points to the opposite conclusion. A "non-Person Of Color" BLM supporter would die before they did that.
Simple solution.
Don’t waste thousands upon thousands of dollars obtaining a completely worthless liberal arts degree.
” Universities “ should be downsizing dramatically, or closing their socialist doors altogether.
Technology has made most college degrees completely obsolete.
Pudd’n head on Thursdays.
My goodness. What a bunch of babies.
You have got to read the original Uncle Remus stuff by Joel Chandler. It is a beautiful slice of history! Without a doubt.
I am not being sarcastic, or silly. This is the TRUTH.
I was never able to attend college, but we covered a lot of Mark Twain’s work in the 8th grade (1966). It was required reading.
So much for the Free Speech quad in front of the student union. /s
These “students” should not be in college.
Doesn't matter. Mr. Clemens was of a race other than minority, which makes him, to coin a phrase the daughter of Holocaust survivors would understand, Honkenrein.
Unfortunately the professor is a useful idiot who has become no longer useful. No one ever told her that the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution, and she is no longer of the revolution.
Totally off-topic, but I wonder why her middle name would be jelly-doughnut. It would be like naming one's ethnic-Japanese daughter Mariko Creampan Tanaka.
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