Word: jeffriesism
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Jeffries can think whatever he wants. He can also say whatever he wants, within constitutional limits. But New York State need not and should not pay him to say it. We tend not to think that public education should encourage students to wipe whites off the face of the earth...
This may seem ridiculously self-evident, but last Monday (before news of Jeffries's vicious treatment of Morgan became public), CUNY's board of trustees voted to renew his appointment as department chair for eight more months. They did not censure him. They did not fire him. In effect, they...
JEFFRIES CAN ONLY IRRITATE racial wounds badly in need of healing. His message of division can only lead those who listen to him--many of them inner-city Blacks still desperate for truly equal representation--to violent conflicts with others.
Jeffries's power to incite hatred, his anti-Semitism and his anti-gay attitudes should be recognized as hateful non-scholarship, not defended under the grounds of academic freedom. They should be protected by law but not by public salary. (His treatment of Morgan, of course, should not be protected...
CUNY should take away Jeffries's state-supported bully pulpit. He should be fired.