Posted on 03/16/2021 6:53:45 AM PDT by karpov
Cancellation has become so frequent that there’s a tendency to note the latest example perfunctorily and move on, hoping you’re not the next victim.
Last week’s termination of Professor Sandra Sellers of Georgetown Law School bears more than a perfunctory mention. In what she thought was a private conversation with a fellow faculty member after a virtual class, Sellers said, after discussing the performance of a black student in her mediation class:
You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester, that a lot of my lower ones are blacks. It happens almost every semester, and it’s like oh, come on. You know, we get some really good ones but there also are usually some of them that are just plain at the bottom.
Unbeknownst to the professors, the conversation was still being recorded and was uploaded, along with the rest of the class, into a digital database with the appropriately dystopian name Panopto. A few weeks later, the Georgetown Black Law Students Association became aware of the conversation and immediately began calling for Professor Sellers’s head. BLSA claimed:
These racist statements reveal not only Sellers’ beliefs about black students in her classes, but also how her racist thoughts have translated to racist actions. Professor Sellers’ bias has impacted the grades of black students in her classes historically, in her own words.
That, to put it conservatively, is a heckuva lot to glean from Sellers’ statements. Nonetheless, Georgetown fired Professor Sellers, put the other professor on leave, and engaged in the customary ritual abasement to try to get this to go away.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Accusations of grade lowering, stated without proof - yet the university caved immediately.
Let’s be honest. Reality itself is racist.;-)
I like how you think.
You vil think the way we tell you, and you vil repeat what we say (in public).
I don’t see anything wrong with her statement. She didn’t say her black students were stupid or lazy, just the FACT that many of them are at the bottom of the curve, a fact that is repeated by many leftists as justification for reparations.
Thinking is also racist. I just let my mind wander until it stumbles onto something.;-)
This guy is a clear thinker.
Good article.
It would help to know the full context of the remarks.
Black person: “Black people are under-performing. Therefore, we are owed reparations.”
White person: “I agree that Black people are under-performing.”
Black person: “How dare you say such a racist thing! I will destroy you.”
Here’s a bit more context:
‘”’They were a bit jumbled. It’s like let me reason through that, what you just said,” Sellers was heard saying about the Black students. After remarking that Black students had always been the ‘lower ones’, she added, “It happens almost every semester, and it’s like, oh, come on. You know, we get some really good ones but there also usually some of them that are just plain at the bottom.”’ - https://meaww.com/sandra-sellers-georgetown-law-professor-racist-comments-black-students-plain-bottom
Hate speech = liberal blasphemy
That doesn’t explain how they got onto the topic to begin with. Why talking about black students at the bottom and not white students at the bottom? I’m assuming that she has bad students of both races.
Anything blacks don’t like is racist. Anything whites excel in is racist. Anything blacks fail at is racist and can’t be permitted. Also, men can be women if they choose to be. Unless we come to terms with the truth, our society is doomed.
It seems like Sellers started with the particular statements of a particular student, who was black, and then made a broader observation about black students in her classes. I guess her thoughtcrime was to notice that the particular student was black; Georgetown Law has not explained, asserting only that her remarks were "reprehensible" (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/a-message-to-the-georgetown-law-community/).
The government itself is racist. They collect crime statistics and break them down by race. It’s racist to even point out the differences.
Yep, like we’ve said here for years, facts be rayciss!
TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
Reality is that which, when you manipulate data about it, doesn’t change.
I have always found that liberals say those things. Because they are liberal, they think it will be perceived as something good.
Conservatives usually know better than to go there.
John McCain was at the bottom portion of his class.....
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