Sunday, March 21, 2021
Canceled for not calling her out: Second Georgetown Law professor resigns after 'failing to correct' colleague who was fired for saying black students are 'plain bottom of her class' in leaked Zoom call
A second Georgetown Law professor has left the prestigious university after he participated in a Zoom call where his colleague made derogatory remarks about black students.
David Batson was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conversation with Professor Sandra Sellers that went viral last week.
On Saturday Georgetown confirmed to WTOP that Batson had submitted his resignation to the dean of the university's law school, Bill Treanor.
Sellers, 62, was fired after video showed her complaining to Batson about how black students were predominantly at the bottom of her class - while Batson stayed quiet.
The interaction happened at the conclusion of a negotiations class around February 21, which was being recorded so that students could watch it later, according to the Washington Post.
The professors had stayed on Zoom to discuss the students after they left and where unaware that it was still recording. It was online for two weeks until students noticed the conversation between Sellers and Batson at the end and reported it to the school on March 8.
'They were a bit jumbled. It's like let me reason through that, what you just said,' Sellers said of a student's performance, who the Black Law Students Association claims is the only black person in the class.
'You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester, that a lot of my lower ones are blacks,' the adjunct professor of mediation and negotiation continued.
'It happens almost every semester, and it's like, oh, come on. You know, we get some really good ones but there also usually some of them that are just plain at the bottom,' Sellers concluded.
Batson, also a mediation law expert, did not initially respond but simply looked down and nodded in the short 43-second clip, which was allegedly leaked to social media by a student.
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UK: School of African Studies university boss is facing calls to quit after he used the N-word
The director of the School of Oriental and African Studies is facing mounting calls to quit after he used the N-word during a video call with students.
Adam Habib had been discussing students' concerns about lecturers historically using the slur without repercussions despite complaints from black students that had been 'ignored' by the university in London.
The 56-year-old, who is of Indian descent, said during the webinar on Thursday: 'The issue around that... firstly, on the n*****, somebody making that allegation, then bring it to me. 'I don't know the case, this is the first I've heard of it.'
One of his students then cut him off to state: 'Adam, that's not acceptable to be saying that in a meeting.'
Another student said that they had taken offence to its use before Mr Habib replied: 'You do? Well, I don't actually. I come from a part of the world where we actually do use the word... The context matters.'
But one of his students once again added: 'You're not a black man, you cannot use that word. You have not faced the trauma and oppression of black bodies what we go through 24/7 for the last 500 years.
Shortly after the meeting Mr Habib took to social media with a 17-part thread in an attempt to justify his use of the slur before accusing critics of attempting to 'politicise the issue'.
The director, who was born in South Africa and appointed as SOAS director in January 2021, wrote: 'The question is why is it that after this apology, some are still politicising the issue?'
Students at the university have since set up a petition calling for the removal, resignation or dismissal of Mr Habib within 31 days.
It states that his actions are 'emblematic of the experience that black students go through at SOAS' and accuses the university of failing to address black students' concerns.
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Whats become of Freedom of Speech? now is it offensive to little snowflakes?
C.S. Lewis observed that it is IMPOSSIBLE to experience other people's suffering. That we can sympathize and perhaps even empathize, but the actual suffering is theirs and theirs alone. No person experiences more than his or her own personal suffering, no matter how much they may try and argue otherwise.
We now have people who claim the suffering of "400 years of oppression" as their own suffering. Forgetting, for the moment, that the Jews can claim well over 2500 years of oppression and suffering as their own, or that there are other ethnic groups who have been oppressed nearly as long or longer, what does that actually mean?
Jordan Peterson points out that EVERYONE is oppressed by something. Meghan Markle, a millionaire and princess, whined to Oprah Winfrey, a billionaire, about her "oppression," and the media lapped up these dubious tales of woe as if she were being kept chained in a shack on a cotton plantation in 1840 in the Deep South, whipped daily for the offense of her skin color.
This is the ludicrous outcome of a cultist movement that allows for no redemption and no forgiveness. Nothing will ever be enough to expunge the "suffering" of people who live every day infinitely better off than even the richest "oppressor" of 150 years ago.
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