[freespirited]

“There’s a whole industry out there seizing on the opportunity to pillory a group of faculty members as leftist, racist, elitist, avant-garde Marxist people,” says Dr. William Chafe

The shoe fits, doc. Wear it.

[hsalaw]

Duke’s African and African American studies department chose to take a stand

I read the whole article with this question in mind: what kind of a job can you get in the real world with a degree in "African and African American studies"? Teaching at Duke, apparently.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Many fear the real fallout for Duke’s AAAS department is that potential new faculty will go elsewhere. If there is any justice in this world, it would be that no student with an ounce of self-respect would attend Duke, and on parent would spend one dime on an "education" at Duke for their children until the entire "gang of 88" had been rendered unemployed and terminally unemployable.

[JerseyJohn61]

Moonbats are never held accountable for pulling the pin on
a grenade and walking away. We need to keep tossing those
damn pineapples back at them....JJ61

[TYVets]

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

[tsomer]

While Johnson has never made outwardly racist comments, those who follow his blog are suspected of besieging professors with racist, personal and menacing rants.

Post hoc ergo...

And I'll bet she's the type of journalist who denounces cultural conservatives for associating rap music with killing, mayhem, etc.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Chafe penned an article in the Duke Chronicle last March trying to give context to White-on-Black violence — but he says he was misinterpreted.

He wrote: “At some point in the past or present, White males have ‘had their way’ with Black women. White slave masters were the initial perpetrators of sexual assault on Black women.”

What an asshole.

What would the nation say if a "White History" professor reacted to the legal fallout from a rowdy hip hop party where a white girl was allegedly manhandled by several black males by saying that 'negroes have typically been animalistic in their sexuality towards white women since the time they were picking cotton'?

No wonder he's getting death threats. People like this shouldn't have jobs.

[PzLdr]

Replace the six black teachers who left with ten black teachers. I can see that they're so concerned about racism.

[ko_kyi]

“We had a long discussion about what the word ‘regret’ means, and philosophy professors weighed in and we had detailed discussions in terms of the epistemology of specific words,” says Baker. “If you talk to 80 different college professors, you’ll have 80 different opinions.”

That's comedy gold. It was easy to write the hit piece, but when the reason for it was shown to be false, they had to sit around for hours defining words.

[L.N. Smithee]

Later on that summer, Dr. Karla Holloway, an endowed professor of English and law at Duke, published an article in The Scholar & Feminist Online that accused the lacrosse players of flouting their privilege at the expense of Black women.

“At Duke University this past spring, the bodies left to the trauma of a campus brought to its knees by members of Duke University’s lacrosse team were African-American and women,” she wrote.

“The lacrosse team’s notion of who was in service of whom and the presumption of privilege that their elite sport’s performance had earned seemed their entitlement to behaving badly and without concern for consequence.”

Oh, brrrrother...those have got to be the most incomprehensible sentences ever written by someone described as an English and law scholar!

[Candor7]

I was fortunate to have been educated by conservative University faculty members who refused to comment on political and social push button issues of the day, from 1967 until 1977.

Looking back, they always said ," What do YOU think? And why do you think it?"

Theirs was the wisdom of men and women who had seen the rise and fall of Hitler,and had witnessed the politics of the Dreyfus affair, antisemitism, and Auschwitz. Many had served in the forces which liberated Europe from fascism.

This present generation of colleges faculty in their majority educate by espousing their personal causes and effectively blind their students to the understanding of all sides of an issue.

The Duke 88 have made their own epistemology , applied it, and now must suffer the slings and arrows of those whom they held in both contempt and ignorance through it.

They have no one to blame except themselves.

[Lancey Howard]

Many fear the real fallout for Duke’s AAAS department is that potential new faculty will go elsewhere.

This makes no sense. The whole purpose of AAAS is to offer employment to people who majored in.... AAAS.

[kcvl]

Dr. Chafe is the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. He is the author of "Civilities and Civil Rights," the authoritative book on race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, NC. Duke historians William Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad co-direct the Behind the Veil project which documents African American Life in the Jim Crow South. This project represents an effort to correct historical misrepresentations of African American experiences during the period of legal segregation in the U.S. The project, a collaborative research effort, does this by encouraging scholars to listen to the voices of those who survived an era of profound racial oppression.

[philetus]

group of 88
consumed with bigoted hate
a century late

[ApplegateRanch]

AAAS needs more money...lot's more and should recieve it.

Any student against the American Association for Abundant Sex has screw loose.

[FormerACLUmember]

The Duke 88 slandered and ruined the lives of 3 innocent young men.

These vermin will be sued personally for millions in damages. And deserve finacial ruin for their evil, unrepentant criminal behavior.

[carumba]

They are creating a wonderful straw person to attack...

(Sigh,) I remember when it was OK to say straw man and save the syllable and ambiguity.

[farmer18th]

It makes you ponder the parallels between Duke Faculty and Global Warming Faculty.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Members of the Group of 88 say they have received hundreds of e-mails, many of which were racist and threatening in tone.

Which is exactly what their ad was, "racist and threatening in tone."

[kidd]

To the group of 88:

Signatures mean something.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were willing to give up everything for their cause. When an individual signs a mortgage, they are financially committed to that document, or lose everything.

Don't dilute what you did, or try to change its meaning. You thought you were being brave little liberals when you put on your display of outrage to the public. Now its time for you to lose everything.

Well, you stuck your neck out. Now you deserve a societal guillotine.

Each and every one of you should be fired.
Duke Alumni should withhold contributions until each and every one of you racists have been removed from the University.
Each and every one of you should give up teaching.
Every University in the country should realize that your actions are irresponsible and that you have no business professing your twisted opinions to our youth.
College applicants should be informed of your presence on any campus, so that they can make the correct choice for their future.

Signatures mean something. Pay up.

[Tzimisce]

Well we shouldn't judge people by race and we know all white people do. I mean, whites hate people who don't look like them. It's just ingrained in their dna.