The title of a recent Weekly Standard article reads:
Professor Uses 'N-Word,' Student Shouts 'F-You,' 'Free Speech' Class Canceled at Princeton.
I would write it like this:
Professor mentions N-word [no inverted commas], Student Shouts 'F-You,' [correct use of inverted commas for quotation], 'Free Speech' Class Cancelled at Princeton [correct use of inverted commas as sneer quotes].
Pedantry aside, the real problem is in the following paragraph:
Last week Prof. Rosen received national attention for using the N-word in this class on freedom of expression. Some students walked out and protested the term’s use. One report, cited in Princeton’s main campus newspaper, says that Rosen asked, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a n****r?” And when Rosen was met with disagreement of his use of the N-word, and on his continued use of the term in the academic setting, he said, he would use it, “if I think it’s necessary.”
Rosen didn't use the N-word, he mentioned it. Rosen was talking about the word 'nigger' and asking whether it would be worse for a white man to punch a black man or to apply the word 'nigger' to him. That is a perfectly legitimate question and there is nothing racist about it.
There is also nothing racist about my mentioning of the word in question in the second-to-last sentence. I am talking about the word in the way I would be talking about it were I to say that it is disyllabic and consists of six letters. I am not applying it to anyone.
Which is worse, to punch a Jew (without provocation) or to apply 'kike' to him? Does it make one an anti-Semite to ask this question? Obviously not.
Read the rest to fully savor how the Left has destroyed the universities. If you are thinking of an academic career in a non-STEM field you may want to think twice.
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