Inside Higher Education has a great article regarding a Professor who sued his students and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock after being falsely accused of racism. Sounds just like the sort of crazy nonsense that is wrong with Universities these days. Also sounds like the sort of battles that Republicans better get ready to fight considering Obama’s methods, and his allies quick use of racism charges to silence dissent.
Another accusation against him was that — in the same time frame when he had criticized affirmative action — he was insensitive in passing out “a basic grammar worksheet” to the class and telling students to focus more on their writing. There was no accusation that he focused on the black students, only that he raised this issue shortly after he has been critical of affirmative action. On this charge, Peltz noted that faculty members had been urged by the state Bar to focus more on writing issues because some law students were in danger of failing the Bar exam due to poor writing skills. While defending his intent, Peltz pledged in his new memo to never again offer the writing tips “lest I again be maligned for trying to improve student writing.” What You Can’t Win in Court :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs
Read the comments and be shocked to learn just how grades are awarded in the new age.
Affirmative action is racism.
Amazing he that wasn’t fired or perhaps he is tenured. Reverse racism, or affirmative action simply is racism and creates hatred, not fairness. I was fired by the Chairman because I refused to pass a black student who did not attend class or do any work; the Chair wanted him passed for racial quota purposes, so the Chair changed my grade of F to passing, thereby discriminating against all the other students. I didn’t care what race, ethnicity, age, sex, or attitude a student had, only that they were able to learn the material no matter what I had to do to help them to pass standard tests pursuant to obtaining a professional license. What the Chair did was wrong, to the students and to the profession.
As for your own perception, what race do you think I am? Do you assume that I am white?
You’re likely wrong; I am Native American.
Dan, Dr. at Ball State University,
Well I am feeling all warm and fuzzy knowing that grades are just handed out to meet quotas. What we are seeing here is the destruction of nearly 2500 years of experience regarding basic ideas, truth matters, honor matters, actually knowing the material matters. You know having idiot lawyers may not be such a dangerous thing, hell it might be a plus since having idiots abounding in law might move the worship of them down a notch or two, but imagine that same grading method being used with a heart surgeon. Gosh, do you feel a thrill going up your leg! Speaking of thrills running up my leg…
Now we have a Black President who uses the same sort of tactics, hurling racism charges at those who stand in his way, well my gosh it just doesn’t get any better than that eh? Exactly how would the University view a group of students calling themselves the White Law Students Association? Would the University allow them to ruin careers of women studies professors? Dissent in the United States just moved into the hate speech category. If it is wrong to have a White Law Students Law Association why is it right to have a black one? Would Reverend King think all this color running around as victims a good thing?
The question is can any Republican overcome their fear of being branded a racist to fight back? Perhaps we can take a cue from the Queen of Denmark.
The Queen of Denmark said it best “A counterbalance has to be found, and one has to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on you. For there are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”
She was defending her right to stand up to Islam’s attempt to overwhelm Europe. We might take a cue from her as those would debase our civilization by eliminating standards try to destroy our nation in order to steal success. Hint success is not given, nor taken, it is earned. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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