Good day all. I’ve written many times about the Colleges and Universities in the united States and how they’ve become nothing more than Marxist political reeducation centers. One of the things that these “Centers of higher learning” do is punish anyone who refuses to toe the totalitarian line. For instructors, this means being fired.
This has been going on for some time now, and over the last few years, students and faculty members who have been punished “Wrongthink” have started fighting back in court. Now a suspended UCLA professor has been told by the courts that he can proceed with his suit. Here are the details from the Daily Wire:
A University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor who was suspended after refusing to grade black students more leniently in the wake of George Floyd’s death can continue with his lawsuit, a judge ruled late last month.
Apparently, some of the precious snowflakes felt that convicted felon George Floyd, who overdosed on Fentanyl, should be mourned and that they should have to bother with little things like studying, classwork and tests. The professor told them no. For this, he was called a racist and suspended from his position by UCLA.
As The Daily Wire reported, the students requested all of these accommodations due to 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.”
“We believe that remaining neutral in times of injustice brings power to the oppressor and therefore staying silent is not an option,” the students added.
The students insisted they did not make the request as “a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students” but rather to “ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major.”
Is it any wonder that people refer to these useless twits as “Precious Snowflakes?” They are a pack of lazy, worthless losers who think that everyone owes them something. They cannot grasp that no one cares about them and that in the real world, if you don’t get your tasks done, you may not have a job or be able to eat.
The students were using the May 25 death of Floyd and the resulting riots across the country to get leniency in class. Professor Klein did not accept their arguments and responded in an email that gained him the ire of students.
“Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,” Klein wrote back to the students.
“Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?” he asked them. “How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only?”
Talk about poking the moonbats! These are what passes for fighting words for the precious snowflakes, and it didn’t stop there.
Klein went on to ask about students who “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?” he asked.
Klein also suggested “a white student from [Minneapolis] might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not. My TA is from Minneapolis, so if you don’t know, I can probably ask her.”
Klein ended his email with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. about not evaluating people based on the color of their skin.
That last bit, quoting from Martin Luther King Jr. is how most Americans prefer to act with others. They look at the individual and how that person acts, and don’t consider the skin color. Progressives, who are incapable of logical thought or considering the individual are all about their “Feewings” and “Microaggressions.” The whining horde went after Professor Klein and, as usual, the cowards that make up most university administrations caved right in.
Klein was eventually suspended and denounced by UCLA. It later reinstated him, but as Cornell professor William Jacobson noted, “not before his reputation and career were severely damaged.”
And this is when the lawyers were called in.
Klein is now suing, alleging he was punished for treating students equally, as required by California law. He also alleges that UCLA’s Anderson School of Management disregarded a broader UCLA directive not to punish him over student complaints. Klein also alleged that the incident caused him to lose clients where he was paid to be an expert witness.
I find it interesting that it was a smaller “school” within UCLA that went after Professor Klein, and that UCLA itself apparently told them to back off. I smell another Oberlin College here. In this case, it’s a faculty member and not an outside company/group that is taking action. In any case, UCLA asked that the lawsuit be dismissed because…reasons.
On March 30, 2022, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Jay Ford III ruled against UCLA when it attempted to have Klein’s lawsuit dismissed. Ford ruled that Klein provided sufficient evidence to “support judgment in his favor” for several of his claims. The lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in April 2023.
I wonder why this has to wait another year before it goes to trial? It looks a lot like the old “Justice delayed is justice denied” thing to me, for both sides. Perhaps the discovery process is still on going? In any case, from what little I know, (And it’s not much), if this does go to trial, I’d say there is a fair chance that UCLA is going to get it in the shorts. Unlike Oberlin College, they can take a multi-million dollar hit. Their reputation however, is another matter. We shall see what happens.
Thatisall
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