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OU apologizes over professor's reading from historical document that uses 'N-word'
https://www.tulsaworld.com ^ | Feb 24, 2020 | The Oklahoman

Posted on 02/25/2020 8:09:53 AM PST by BackRoads775

OKLAHOMA CITY — The University of Oklahoma released a statement Monday after a history teacher read during class from a historical document that used a racial slur.

Interim OU President Joseph Harroz said the faculty member read from a historical document that “repeatedly” used the N-word. He said the professor issued a “trigger warning” before reading but agreed that the word never should have been used.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: education; history; nword; oklahoma; snowflake; triggered; triggerwarning; whiteguilt
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To: BackRoads775

It shouldn’t be long before professors and others will be apologizing for saying the “J” word. One day it will be illegal to utter the name above all names, Jesus Christ.

I wonder if Mexicans will have to change their names to Joe or something?


41 posted on 02/25/2020 8:46:25 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: MeganC

>>>The word is ‘nigger’ and I refuse to be censored from using the word. But when black people stop using it in casual conversation then so will I.<<<

Unless they are in Chicago . . .


42 posted on 02/25/2020 8:47:30 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: antidemoncrat

Are white people allowed to sing rap songs that use the n-word?

What about white hispanics?

What about almost white hispanics?

What do the Race Judges proclaim about that?


43 posted on 02/25/2020 8:48:22 AM PST by samtheman (FReepers all do want Bernie to get the dem nomination, right? (Just to be clear))
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To: MeganC
The word is ‘nigger’ and I refuse to be censored from using the word. But when black people stop using it in casual conversation then so will I.

AMEN, brother!
44 posted on 02/25/2020 8:50:22 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Crap! There goes this week-end’s showing of Blazing Saddles


45 posted on 02/25/2020 8:50:50 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: MeganC

Indeed it seems to be a problem only when non blacks use it it’s a all or nothing deal.


46 posted on 02/25/2020 8:52:39 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: FairfaxVA

Have we raised an entire generation of “snowflakes” that can’t avoid being “triggered” when reading an historical document?


47 posted on 02/25/2020 9:00:40 AM PST by gbscott
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To: BackRoads775
Did the professor call anyone a nigger? No, he was reading someone else's words calling someone a nigger. There is a difference. The word is all over older literature; not just Twain but Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner. Sometimes the use seems unnecessary, but other times it's used to lend authenticity and even to make a point about how dehumanizing it and all slurs are. Who is the one thoroughly-decent character in Huckleberry Finn? None other than Nigger Jim. When Huck claimed to be Tom Sawyer and told Tom's aunt the made up the story about the steamboat boiler blowing up and noting "a nigger got killed" and the aunt said, " thank goodness no one got hurt, " what was Twain's point there? The cleaned-up versions lose quite a bit of impact.
48 posted on 02/25/2020 9:01:44 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: BackRoads775

NONSENSE!!!


49 posted on 02/25/2020 9:02:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: BackRoads775

Should just say schwarzer instead.

With a Yiddish accent.

While flipping off the class.


50 posted on 02/25/2020 9:06:24 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BackRoads775

The ‘historic document’ was the lyric sheet for NWA’s first album.


51 posted on 02/25/2020 9:06:28 AM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

That’s Hey Zeus.


52 posted on 02/25/2020 9:07:29 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: BackRoads775

I’ll take ‘what are kids that are to immature and ignorant to be in a university’ for $1000 Alex.


53 posted on 02/25/2020 9:08:32 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: gbscott

“ Have we raised an entire generation of “snowflakes” that can’t avoid being “triggered” when reading an historical document?”

That seems to be the plan. In our day, “suck it up, buttercup”, would be an appropriate response to one claiming to be “triggered” or offended.


54 posted on 02/25/2020 9:12:51 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BackRoads775

How can these people live their lives if they constantly collapse at the sight or sound of a nasty word?

Can they really run a nation? Can they send men into battle if they are this squeamish about literature?

The Dems are hoisted on their own petards, they dumbed down the schools, sold outrage, and created a true army of zombies who have no knowledge of history but think that Bernie’s policies are reasonable solutions.

Socialism destroys, it cannot build, it can only steal.

Now deal with that socialist nightmare.


55 posted on 02/25/2020 9:12:52 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: dennisw

It’s “their special word”. You and I are not permitted to use it out-loud even if we are reading from a piece of literature where the term is used, or a historical document.


56 posted on 02/25/2020 9:19:26 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: PGR88
"Shakespeare. Macbeth. Scene 4 Act 3"

AAAHHH!
Hot potato,
Off his drawers,
Pluck to make amends!
AAAHHH!

57 posted on 02/25/2020 9:22:24 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: BackRoads775

Mighty white of OU to do that.


58 posted on 02/25/2020 9:24:05 AM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: BackRoads775

What was the “historical document,” an old Democrat Party platform paper?


59 posted on 02/25/2020 9:25:23 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: BackRoads775

Shouldn’t those documents, along with any books, be permanently distroyed.
Like the civil war monuments.

Perhaps the could be burned?
Call it project 451


60 posted on 02/25/2020 9:27:00 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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