Gordon Klein undervisar i företagsekonomi (bokföring för att vara extra specifik) vid UCLA i Los Angeles. Härom dagen stängdes han av för att ha vägrat särbehandla mörkhyade studenter när han rättade tentorna:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sessments.html
Klein svarade på dessa krav via e-post:
Relevant att notera är att universitetet stängt av honom mot bakgrund av att han vägrat ställa upp på krav som...
A) inte ställts av universitetet självt.
B) inte ställts av mörkhyade studenter.
Det är alltså ett gäng icke-mörkhyade studenter som begärt särbehandling för mörkhyade studenter, vilket Klien vägrat gå med på. Att hela kursen hålls online och Klein inte ens har någon möjlighet att veta vilken hudfärg kursdeltagarna har är ännu en intressant detalj i sammanhanget.
Att diskutera:
Borde professor Klein få lämna sin post efter den påstått rasistiska manifestationen? Eller är det i själva verket universitetet som borde stå i skamvrån för att ha tagit parti för en lynchmobbs orimliga krav? Hade Martin Luther King fel när han drömde om en värld där hans barn skulle betygsättas, inte utifrån sin hudfärg utan från innehållet i de inlämnade provsvaren?
Övriga reflektioner kring ämnet är välkomna i den mån de rör händelsen i fråga.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sessments.html
Citat:
A professor at the University of California in Los Angeles has been suspended and placed under police protection after he rejected his non-black students' appeals for him to be lenient with his black students.
Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for 39 years, was suspended by the university for three weeks beginning on June 25.
...
The students wrote that, in light of recent 'traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter'.
They continued: 'We believe that remaining neutral in times of injustice brings power to the oppressor and therefore staying silent is not an option.'
They wrote, according to Inside Higher Education, that theirs was 'not a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students, but rather an ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major'.
Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for 39 years, was suspended by the university for three weeks beginning on June 25.
...
The students wrote that, in light of recent 'traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter'.
They continued: 'We believe that remaining neutral in times of injustice brings power to the oppressor and therefore staying silent is not an option.'
They wrote, according to Inside Higher Education, that theirs was 'not a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students, but rather an ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major'.
Klein svarade på dessa krav via e-post:
Citat:
Klein wrote back and declined their request, composing an email that some students felt was mocking them.
'Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,' he wrote.
'Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we've been having online classes only?
'Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?'
Klein asked the students whether any of them - black or otherwise - were from Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by police on May 25, sparking a wave of protests.
'I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well,' he wrote.
'I am thinking that a white student from there might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they're racist even if they are not.
...
he ended with a quote from Martin Luther King.
'One last thing strikes me: Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the "color of their skin,"' he wrote.
'Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK's admonition? Thanks, G. Klein.'
'Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,' he wrote.
'Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we've been having online classes only?
'Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?'
Klein asked the students whether any of them - black or otherwise - were from Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by police on May 25, sparking a wave of protests.
'I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well,' he wrote.
'I am thinking that a white student from there might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they're racist even if they are not.
...
he ended with a quote from Martin Luther King.
'One last thing strikes me: Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the "color of their skin,"' he wrote.
'Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK's admonition? Thanks, G. Klein.'
Relevant att notera är att universitetet stängt av honom mot bakgrund av att han vägrat ställa upp på krav som...
A) inte ställts av universitetet självt.
B) inte ställts av mörkhyade studenter.
Det är alltså ett gäng icke-mörkhyade studenter som begärt särbehandling för mörkhyade studenter, vilket Klien vägrat gå med på. Att hela kursen hålls online och Klein inte ens har någon möjlighet att veta vilken hudfärg kursdeltagarna har är ännu en intressant detalj i sammanhanget.
Att diskutera:
Borde professor Klein få lämna sin post efter den påstått rasistiska manifestationen? Eller är det i själva verket universitetet som borde stå i skamvrån för att ha tagit parti för en lynchmobbs orimliga krav? Hade Martin Luther King fel när han drömde om en värld där hans barn skulle betygsättas, inte utifrån sin hudfärg utan från innehållet i de inlämnade provsvaren?
Övriga reflektioner kring ämnet är välkomna i den mån de rör händelsen i fråga.
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