UPDATED! Fired for Saying "N Word" NOT the "N" Word
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Academics are being fired and suspended for having serious discussions about the use of the "N Word".
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| 0:00.0 | Would you believe that Slate magazine, known for its controversial stands, has just indefinitely |
| 0:08.0 | suspended? |
| 0:09.0 | Fired? |
| 0:10.0 | A podcaster for having a debate with a colleague on a messaging platform into office as to |
| 0:19.4 | whether and when it is ever appropriate for a white person to use the N-word in discussing |
| 0:28.0 | racial issues. |
| 0:30.0 | Fired for having a debate and a discussion and told that it's not proper for white people |
| 0:37.7 | even to debate this issue. |
| 0:39.7 | You're going to hear why that's just wrong under this way. |
| 0:46.4 | Sensation regarding matters of race is becoming worse and worse and worse. |
| 0:51.7 | Yesterday we discussed two adjunct professors who were fired from a very distinguished, very |
| 0:58.3 | top law school, Georgetown Law School, for having a discussion on Zoom, a private discussion |
| 1:06.6 | regarding grades and African-Americans and bemoaning the fact that African-Americans don't |
| 1:13.4 | do as well as white counterparts in grading. |
| 1:20.2 | They were fired. |
| 1:22.0 | One was actually fired. |
| 1:23.6 | The other was pressured to resign because of a discussion about the issue and an admission |
| 1:29.8 | by the teacher that she felt terrible about it that it drove her crazy and that she had |
| 1:35.1 | all kinds of difficulties and she maybe hoped we can do better and she got fired. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, today the news comes out, a New York Times report, that Slate magazine, which is known |
| 1:47.8 | for covering controversial issues and controversial ways, has now indefinitely suspended, a euphemism |
| 1:55.1 | for fired, indefinitely suspended one of its major podcasters for debating with colleagues |
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