SIU professor's reading assignment causes uproar

Belleville News-Democrat ^ | May 4, 2005 | Associated Press

[Adder]

The letter said history teachers must "clearly distinguish between documents that illustrate racism in the American past and present-day racist propaganda."

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"What we did was to exercise our free speech by basically criticizing his teaching methods," she said. "It's significant that people who spoke against racism on a college campus have been subjected to this kind of attack."

Sorry, jerks, the job of historians is NOT to show or highlight rascism...its to report accurately what happened.
Lately you all have done a pi$$ poor job of that.And God forbid anyone doubt your carefully crafted anti-American word by showing anything other than your rigid dogma.

The prof you attacked exercised his right to free speech and you felt justified in speaking oput. But you don't like it very much when you get criticized for it. HA HA!
In other words..."OOOOO...you can't attack US!"
It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

[jordan8]

As I've said before, modern leftism is composed almost exclusively of anti-white racism. What the professors (all women, btw) really object to is the facts about anti-white racial violence coming out at all, not the accuracy of the piece. The entire system in academia, the press, and the government is dedicated to suppressing those facts. And if that suppression doesn't amount to openly supporting that violence then it will do until such support comes along.

[untenured]

History professor Jonathan Bean, a self-proclaimed "libertarian conservative," claims he is the victim of public attacks by a history department filled with professors who hold political views opposite his.

I have gingerly moved into racial issues in my classes more and more in recent years. I talk about the social beneifts of marriage and the costs of out-of-wedlock birth, and marriage's utter decline among black Americans. I also talk about statistical discrimination (the person who rejects a resume in part because it's got a "black-sounding" name on it, e.g.) and whether it's the result of prejudice. I even try to get students to think about whether antidiscrimination laws are immoral, and whether they serve the notion of a color-blind society (and, indeed, whether students, despite their rhetoric, really want a color-blind, post-tribal society). I do it all Socratically, and try not to be dogmatic about it.

So far, I have had no trouble, but that's not to say I won't. I keep expecting to hear from the professional victimology movement any day now.