School: "Cancelled!"
Posted on 12/11/2021 2:43:33 PM PST by workerbee
A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the names of two black students in class, according to a report.
Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.
“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29 article in the Fordham Observer. “I have done my best to validate and reassure the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do with race.”
He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s work.
Several students said Trogan’s bizarre overreaction, rather than making a simple apology, made matters worse for him.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I confused a White woman I knew in college with her sister once. Does that make me a bad person?
Jeez…. I sometimes mix up the names of my kids when calling to them. Fortunately I haven’t been “fired” from the family for that.
I work in a police station. I still get some of the cops mixed up and I’ve been there for almost 2 years.
So, would it have been racist if he simply and honestly said most black people look alike to him?
This is ridiculous.
The communist thought police will eat their own just as quickly as a “real” American...
Glad to see this happen...
He got a taste of the medicine that he otherwise supports...
I have an Italian surname and my profs at University sometimes butcher it, but I’m still cool. I wont throw a hissy fit over this minor issue. I did think about burying these clowns in the joisy’ woods sometimes..
Nine pages...I’ll bet he was a horrible lecturer.
issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,
uh oh another faux pas
the tyrants want equity not equality
Of course it is.
The very fact he sent a NINE PAGE APOLOGY (without being asked) speaks volumes about his understanding of how the game is played.
As I said, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Oh look, even the vaunted Academia has its share of really stupid people who ended up with PhDs.....
This is an insane over-reaction. He should sue the university.
Sounds like how a good “Dear Penthouse” story begins
I remember once 25+ years ago, I had class and the professor called a black student by the name “Mr Anderson,” but “Mr Anderson” was a different black student enrolled in a different course taught by the same professor. The mis-named student said, “Anderson is the morning black guy. I’m the afternoon black guy.” Everyone laughed. No one was fired. Different times.
Good.....The inane genuflecting azkisser ought to get fired.
the two students arrived to class late
I guess they were on different time. Maybe it was cloudy and the sundial was not evident.
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