Word: kilson
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PROFESSOR of Government Martin Kilson played a moral trump card yesterday. In a letter to the editor, Kilson took issue with a column in which my editorial page colleague Matthew Joseph argued that Jesse Jackson lacks elective experience necessary to be president of the United States. Kilson labelled Joseph's views "neoracist...
Orenstein, however, is a bit too polite in characterizing Matthew Joseph's putdown of Jackson as "condescending." I prefer characterizing it as neo-racist. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...There are all kinds of intellectual and rhetorical strategies to introduce candor and intelligence and acuteness to a certain issue," says Kilson. "And then you hope it flies...
...Kilson, who teaches a course on ethnicity in American society, says he often uses the derogatory language to which minorities have traditionally been subjected as a way of making his point in the classroom. "I will use that language--wop or dago or nigger or kike--to make the point," he says. "Language that might shock the pedagogical discourse about the issue...
Sometimes the process of communication between the professor and students breaks down when sensitive issues are raised. And instructors say that to some extent these disputes are inevitable as non-traditional fields become integrated into the classroom. "That happens when you open doors," Kilson says. "You can't have omelettes unless you break eggs...