A professor at Georgetown University’s law school
recently lost her job because she was recorded commenting on the academic
performance of black students in her classes.
Specifically, she said such students were “just plain at the bottom”.
Alas, the candid, private comment to a fellow staffer was
not subject to serious consideration of its accuracy. Rather, it was condemned as
“insensitive”. And, of course, in today’s
left-wing academia, adherence to sensitivity
trumps encouragement of honest assessment.
In the old days, before “progressive” ideology took hold
on the Left, the “cancel” remark might have generated the following intelligent
queries: (1) was the assessment accurate?
(2) if so, what explains the poor performance and (3) what can be done to
remedy the situation?
Instead, large segments of American society seem so obsessed with not giving offense that they
pattern their behavior after the crowd viewing the naked emperor parading his
“new” clothes in Hans Christian Andersen”s famous fable.
Seldom, these days, do we hear from the child in the
crowd giving voice to the obvious.
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