Hahaahaha.
Also known as 'retard'.
Posted on 04/15/2021 10:31:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Shown in a now-deleted video on a Columbia student’s Twitter account, Professor Dinah PoKempner, who appears to be white, used the n-word multiple times in her International Human Rights Law class.
The video showed Professor PoKempner’s Zoom box with her name attached in the lower left-hand corner with her using the slur continuously. PoKempner also mimicked a stutter and aspects of AAVE-speech. She appeared to be quoting something, as she paused and said “and then he said,” before launching into another 30 seconds of repeating the slur.
PoKempner is an adjunct professor at the University’s Institute for Human Rights. PoKempner is also general counsel of the prominent non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, on the website of which her profile appears to have been removed.
We at Bwog condemn racism in all forms. We’re including the video below this post as a record of Professor PoKempner’s behavior.
Bwog has reached out to Columbia Communications for comment and to see if immediate action will be taken regarding PoKempner’s behavior. The response we received directed us to the University Faculty Handbook, under “student grievances against professors.”
“The University seeks to provide a learning environment that promotes intellectual inquiry and analytical thinking. In pursuit of those goals and the objectives of their courses, faculty may find it necessary to engage their students in discussions about issues that are contentious and emotionally charged, to respond critically to students’ reasoning, and to challenge them to reexamine deeply held beliefs. This is an important part of the faculty’s responsibility to their students and the educational mission of the University, but it must be done with civility, tolerance, and respect for ideas that differ from their own.
When students feel that one of their professors has not met that requirement, they are encouraged to resolve the problems directly with the faculty member but may instead turn to several offices for assistance. They may also seek a formal hearing of their complaints against the faculty member under the grievance procedures of their school. Each school has its own procedures for evaluating student complaints about the conduct of their instructors. These are posted on the school’s web site and may also be obtained by contacting the office of its dean. Faculty with questions about those procedures should also contact their dean.”
SNIP
What is AAVE-speech?
“bwog” has a slur in it. Do the black supremacists know this?
Maybe she was freestyle rapping, and trying to act less white?
I’m waiting to find that out too.
The AAVEs and the AAVE nots.
African American Vernacular English
I think if you are quoting someone else there shouldn’t be such an uproar over it. If they want us to acknowledge our history, and if our history is racist, then those racist slurs (against every race!) were used. We can’t pretend it didn’t exist or tear it down like they were statues.
I used to play in a local poker game. They played the Dr. Dre Chronic Album in the background. It is full of racist and misogynistic slurs and everyone would rap along with the album but almost everyone didn’t say that word. Just paused, then resumed the rest of the lyrics. Looking back it was pretty comical but people were sensitive to it 20 years ago.
In the good old days it was just called Ebonics.
Agreed. There’s no reason to be niggardly about quoting pop culture.
Hahaahaha.
Also known as 'retard'.
Prof was just trying to be “less white”, that’s all.
/ snerk
What/who the hell is “bwog”? Who chose their name for them, the late Dem. Sen. Robert “KlanKeagle” Byrd”?
If BWOG thinks that this quoting from what someone else wrote (if used in teaching a class) is bad, then they will have to fire every teacher who ever read or assigned anything by James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones (aka Comrade Amiri Baraka), Rev. Louis Farrakhan, WEB Du Bois, possibly Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, etc.
Yeah, right!
Oh no! Not a racial slur! And then the world stopped turning.
Sounds like a bunch of Columbia people have a severe free helicopter ride deficiency...
aka Dain-Bramaged Dindu Speak
This, obviously progressive, professor did not realize that the use of the word by a white person is bad Macumba. Progressives often think they are excused because they are “down with the cause.” Don Imus learned otherwise. Corporations that donated millions to BLM still got looted. Beware of bad mojo, Bwana.
Doesn6t she know you can’t call a spade a spade anymore? Its been that way for 20-30 years and got worse in 2008... Suddenly a whole race of people couldn’t even think the same words they heard at every traffic light, every 7-11 , blaring out of the car next to them. Its only racist when the wrong color person says ut.. so when can I sue cracker barrel??
African American Vernacular English
This what they call not finishing high school
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