Do tweets get TOS and First Amendment protections, much less academic freedom protection at John Silber's and Bill Bennett's old haunts
And the next school year will begin with the usual population of reactionary undergraduates so secure in their "conservative" logic that they will become the James O'Keefes for the next generation. So many problems with "whiteness", so little time, and untenured female professors who are POC don't understand the lifelong oppression of "college aged white males" at a university that costs $62,000 a year.
Critics say a newly-hired Boston University professor has crossed the line with recent tweets bashing whites, but the school says it’s simply free speech.
“White masculinity isn’t a problem for america’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for america’s colleges,” Saida Grundy, an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, tweeted in March.
The tweets were first noticed by student Nick Pappas, who posted them on his website “SoCawlege.com” and questioned how Grundy could be able to teach a diverse classroom given the racial hostility in her tweets.
“You have to teach college aged white males eventually, no?... this seems like you are unqualified to grade their work as you clearly demonstrate some kind of special bias against them,” he wrote.
As a Campus Correspondent, Nick Pappas exposes liberal bias and abuses at colleges across the state of Massachusetts. Nick is a junior at UMass Amherst. He is enrolled in the Isenberg School of Management, and has written for other publications such as the Daily Collegian, Turning Point USA, and more.
Eghteen students at Arizona State University are enrolled in a new, controversial English class called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.” The course is meant to empower students to examine the idea of “Whiteness” as a concept, rather than just skin color — an approach that’s been popular with researchers and academics since the late ’90s.
But not surprisingly, the name of the course has raised brows and gotten some negative knee jerk reactions — most notably from Fox News. The network’s Fox and Friends show ran a segment Friday titled “Trouble with Schools,” criticizing Arizona State University for attacking white people — even though assistant professor Lee Bebout, who teaches the class, identifies as white.
Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who has not seen a syllabus nor been able to reach Bebout for comment, referred to the curriculum as “quite unfair, and wrong, and pointed.”
5:39 PM PT: @saigrundy of course has received a flurry of racist tweets essentially proving her innocuous point - actually not the best thing for her first full-time job and particularly at a place like BU - although perhaps it's intentional since her research is on middle-class black male hegemony