Word: jeffriesism
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Dr. Leonard Jeffries, the embattled City University of New York (CUNY) professor recently under fire for alleged anti-Semitic remarks, has accepted an invitation from three Black student groups to speak at Harvard next week.
Jeffries became the focus of controversy last summer when videotapes of a lecture containing his theories on a racist conspiracy led by Jewish members of the media were made public.
Last fall, as I sat in my office at The Crimson, a reporter, J. Eliot Morgan `92, came to report that his audio tapes had been seized by his interviewee, City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries. Morgan's life had been threatened, and he was scared. Jeffries's...
This confusion is typical of the modern debate about free speech in the university. As in the case of Douglas Hann at Brown University, with whom Jeffries has been unfairly compared, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the distinction between speech and action.
Hann was permanently expelled last year for violating Brown's hate speech code, which prohibited "demeaning actions" directed against "a group or class of persons" based on their "race, religion, or sexual orientation." Hann's shouted racist and anti-semitic epithets outside a dorm. In this case, holding and expressing...