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.”
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Where in the article does it indicate that?
Woke: how morons do literature.
-PJ
Petards hoisted by their owners.
JFK called himself a jelly doughnut when he included the "ein" in front; had he simply said, "Ich bin Berliner", he would have said what he wanted to say.
It’s open season on adjunct professors at St. John’s. This is the second kill scored by the Cultural Revolution. It started when the got the Redmen.
Liberals have started to adopt that word as acceptable for them to say.
Agreed. STEM schools, vocation training, or, if you feel compelled to study the humanities, a great books program.
“It was unnecessary and very painful to hear,” the student wrote in the email seen by The Post.
She, of course. The bane of our existence is the young liberal white female on perpetual Karen duty across society.
Puddin’ head Jones- third base!
Someone should check this complaining student’s music list, see if any offending rap songs are included. If so, summarily dismissed from the U with no refund.
She should have either sang or rapped it when she said it. Perfectly acceptable in the land of the hypocraps!
I think there were American authors before Twain who used dialect in their writings, but none of them are nearly as famous as he is.
Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!
No doubt whatsoever it’s a Karen. A word is so incredibly painful for her to hear that she feels the need to leave class and write an email, yet I would bet my life savings she hasn’t made one single solitary complaint about this racist Critical race theory crap being taught to school kids. These people are utter brain dead morons who should be told to go to hell, who the hell are they to censor history?? History is from where we LEARN, and they want to bury it because THEY deem it is offensive? Who the hell are they??
The word is a trap for Whitey. Only for Whitey.
It’s an ANTI SLAVERY BOOK!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So is “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
When my son was young - 5 maybe, I started reading Mark Twain stuff to him. When we first came to the word nigger I told him that was how they talked back then, but today it is a slur and not something you should use.
I told him we could use the original term, but that it might be better to use something else so you don’t get used to hearing it and thinking it was okay to say today. I can’t recall if he decided on using slave or black instead.
And yeah - to ban books that are anti-racist, anti-slavery and showing that whites and blacks can be friends over the use of one word that was true and common back then. Crazy!
Administrative bloat, aka centralized data collection and planning, is the cause of death of many formerly sound operations. Computerization seems to be speeding up and enabling bureaucratic obesity rather than reducing it. Like American healthcare, the field of education has acquired a bad case of organizational diabetes.
Mark Twain was a white man, with white hair, white mustache, wearing white clothes, white shoes, and a white hat.
And a good bourbon
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