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I'm sorry to see Hough writing trash like that. He was one of the more sober minded sovietologists back in the day...and one of the more sober "transitologists" in the 90s. I'm not sure how he can be so resistant to the facts of inmer city underdevelopment given his focus on public policy... > 18 мая 2015 г., в 8:57, Louis Proyect via Marxism > <[email protected]> написал(а): > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > For the last week, many in academe have been debating comments made on > Twitter by Saida Grundy, a new faculty member at Boston University, in which > she said, “Why is white america [sic] so reluctant to identify white college > males as a problem population?” Amid the debate, some have speculated about > what would happen if a white professor made generalizations about black > students. Would such a person immediately lose his job, or would he suffer no > more than some criticism? > > It turns out that as Grundy was facing scrutiny, many students and academics > at Duke University were finding and becoming appalled by comments posted to a > New York Times discussion board by a Duke political science professor, Jerry > Hough. > > In response to a New York Times editorial about racism's lingering impact on > Baltimore, Hough rejected the analysis. After talking about political trends > regarding issues of urban poverty, he wrote: "I am a professor at Duke > University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name > that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a > strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The > amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the > intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost nonexistent because of the > ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white. It was appropriate that a > Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state [sic]. > King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X. > > full: > https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/18/duke-professors-comments-black-students-anger-many > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shalva.eliava%40outlook.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
