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Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in class
NY Post ^ | 12/11/21 | Conor Skelding and Kerry J. Byrne

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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To: GaltAdonis

He went woke the went broke.


21 posted on 12/11/2021 2:58:26 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: workerbee

His mistake was to grovel.


22 posted on 12/11/2021 2:59:16 PM PST by glorgau
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To: workerbee

My feeling is everyone should be fired who uses phrases like “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion.”


23 posted on 12/11/2021 2:59:22 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: workerbee
What would Professor Kingsfield do?

-PJ

24 posted on 12/11/2021 3:00:07 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: workerbee

So they all look the same wouldn’t go over for him? Ha ha ah aha ahha I just love when the racist woke diversity and equality idiots go after their own, pass the popcorn please! These days its more entertaining than watching this crap on tv


25 posted on 12/11/2021 3:02:31 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: workerbee

IIRC, the disastrous Chinese Cultural Revolution began with student denunciations of professors; all of whom were members of the communist party. Past great deeds were no protection.


26 posted on 12/11/2021 3:04:03 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: workerbee

If it was only so easy to fire the idiot in the WH.


27 posted on 12/11/2021 3:04:08 PM PST by xp38
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To: workerbee

They all sound alike to me too 🤪


28 posted on 12/11/2021 3:04:15 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Gosh, I loved that series.


29 posted on 12/11/2021 3:05:26 PM PST by lilypad
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To: workerbee

30 posted on 12/11/2021 3:06:35 PM PST by moovova
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To: workerbee

Even though Woke, one can be cancelled to become broke.

The Revolution tends to eat many of its own.


31 posted on 12/11/2021 3:08:35 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: workerbee

Never apologize, especially over something so silly.


32 posted on 12/11/2021 3:08:59 PM PST by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It depends. For example, if you were dating, and confused her with her sister, I could see problems.


33 posted on 12/11/2021 3:09:30 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: workerbee

The students were Juan and Jamal. But, to be fair, they do look very much alike. Once you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Jamal.


34 posted on 12/11/2021 3:09:45 PM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: workerbee

Was it this guy?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw


35 posted on 12/11/2021 3:09:55 PM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: workerbee

The very fact he sent a NINE PAGE APOLOGY (without being asked) speaks volumes about his understanding of how the game is played.


Yeah, that was pretty weird. However, he should probably have been counseled, not fired. Unless there was some other reason.


36 posted on 12/11/2021 3:10:21 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: WashingtonSource

No apology.

Sue for big time damages.

Playing offense wins.

Playing defense loses.


37 posted on 12/11/2021 3:11:21 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: workerbee

Ha!!

He spent his “entire life working on issues of justice, equality, and inclusion.”

That glorious career and five bucks will get you a Starbucks latte.


38 posted on 12/11/2021 3:12:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only if you slept with both and got their names confused at the wrong moment.


39 posted on 12/11/2021 3:15:07 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Do we value what the Founding Fathers gave us enough to fight for it?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"He spent his “entire life working on issues of justice, equality, and inclusion.”"

There's his problem... He shoulda been working on equity and CRT.

40 posted on 12/11/2021 3:16:38 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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