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Human Rights Watch Parts With General Counsel for [Racial Slur] Use During Columbia Class
New York Post ^ | April 15, 2021 | Selim Algar

Posted on 04/15/2021 5:37:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The international advocacy group Human Rights Watch parted ways with its general counsel last week after she repeatedly used the N-word during a class she teaches at Columbia University.

Dinah PoKempner, an adjunct professor, used the term 11 times in half a minute while recounting a conversation to students during an April 1 Zoom session, the Columbia Spectator reported.

The decorated attorney, who is white, was discussing legal implications of hate speech at the time, according to the report. During the lesson, PoKempner relayed an anecdote that included dialogue between a Ku Klux Klan member and a lawyer associate of hers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: columbia; homofascists; hrc; hrw; humanrightswatch; hypocrisy; omarshakir; racialclurs; racistomarshakir

1 posted on 04/15/2021 5:37:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

>>During the lesson, PoKempner relayed an anecdote that included dialogue between a Ku Klux Klan member and a lawyer associate of hers.

Do these people even exist and is there a transcript of their original conversation?


2 posted on 04/15/2021 5:40:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: nickcarraway

Where did the lawyer associate claim to have found this Klan member. The Klan pretty much went away when the feds withdrew funding.


3 posted on 04/15/2021 5:41:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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PoKempner

Okay, I'll bite. What the $##%&*!! is a PoKempner?

The poor cousin of a RichKempner?

I'm going out on a limb and guessing that no one before 5 minutes ago (historically speaking) has ever been named PoKempner.

And for good reason.

4 posted on 04/15/2021 6:00:49 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: nickcarraway

Same old crap. Use of the world’s greatest profanity.


5 posted on 04/15/2021 6:09:29 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: nickcarraway

I don't know if you'd want to be in Dinah's kitchen.

Likely a little loud and unpleasant in there.

6 posted on 04/15/2021 6:22:23 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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"The Klan pretty much went away when the feds withdrew funding."

The day after their leader, H.B., died...

7 posted on 04/15/2021 7:28:26 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Samuel Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: nickcarraway

Hypocrites.


8 posted on 04/15/2021 10:15:30 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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