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Craig Butcher's avatar

Well, it's out in the open now.

Either Trump or DeSantis, America is joining up with the axis of evil.

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Shawn's avatar

The only thing I have to take issue with today is Mona's piece. Are we really, really, taking the position that 'yeah, a professor proclaiming that some of their students are subhumans, but that shouldn't cost them their job?' That's the arguement? It's not even me trying to make her look worse than she is, Mona CITES a bunch of her racist comments!

"If Wax is fired for repellent sentiments alone, the protections of tenure will be badly weakened."

Ah, yes. Sentiments alone! Sentiments like:

ā€œNon-Western people feel a ... tremendous amount of resentment and shame.ā€ ā€œOn average, Blacks have lower cognitive ability than whites.ā€ ā€œAmerica will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.ā€

Those are real quotes! Those are things she has said! We're not talking about micro-agressions are something, we're talking about beliefs that you would expect to find at a klan rally. At what point does a university have to go 'yeah, your beliefs are not consistent with our values and you're no longer worthy of employment here?'

Again, these are not mild beliefs! These are not quotes pulled from two decades ago, she's said these things in the past few years!

If you said these things stocking shelves at Target, you would be fired on the spot. I do not understand this impulse that says we can't get rid of people like her just because she's a professor of law. How exactly, by the way, is she expected to do her job fairly and treat students she teaches properly, when she believes that a great many of them are less than human and physically incapable of learning from her?

You wouldn't accept these viewpoints from anyone else, and there's no 'refuting' her speech here. Her job is to teach people and treat them fairly, not espouse about how they are unworthy of being part of the country she was born into.

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