Syracuse Professor Put on Leave
for Calling COVID ‘Wuhan Flu’
American Spectator,
by
Bill Phillips
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
8/28/2020 9:50:12 AM
This week, many college students and professors will begin classroom instruction for the first time since March. One Syracuse University professor, however, has already been asked to leave campus for his rhetoric regarding COVID-19 on a class syllabus. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr. Jon Zubieta distributed a Chemistry 411 syllabus that referred to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan Flu” and the “Chinese Communist Party Virus.” Most syllabi now have a reference section dedicated to addressing social distancing, mask requirements, and other COVID-related issues in the classroom. Syracuse students immediately took to social media, labeling the professor as xenophobic and demanding that he be immediately disciplined.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/28/2020 9:55:12 AM (No. 523622)
Students these days are activists for communism. They need to let the college administration administrate and they need to study and get the heck out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sanspeur 8/28/2020 9:56:45 AM (No. 523625)
have him replace Dr Fauci !! A truth seeker in science ! quelle horreur !
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sanspeur 8/28/2020 9:58:09 AM (No. 523627)
bring him to replace dr f of woo-ville . A truth seeker in science . Quelle horreur !
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/28/2020 10:10:06 AM (No. 523644)
Wuhan flu is the correct naming convention, which has always been to name the disease after where it first appeared.
Wuhan flu, Chinese flu, either is ACCURATE.
But, truth is no defense against the hating thugs of academia these days.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/28/2020 10:27:12 AM (No. 523668)
Freedom of speech isn't the only issue involved here. Universities in the US have become significantly dependent on China financially, both through direct contributions via Chinese front organizations and also through a growing number of foreign student enrollments (which pay a large premium over in-state tuitions). The university administrations are increasingly dependent financially and will take measures to protect that flow of needed revenue.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 8/28/2020 10:41:14 AM (No. 523696)
Tenure doesn't protect speech that Leftists don't like. Most professors know this. BTW, people in China refer to the disease as "The Wuhan." Also, last winter the alphabet news readers referred to it as the China virus, the Wuhan coronavirus, and so on. It was OK until the ChiComs said "knock it off."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 8/28/2020 10:41:43 AM (No. 523698)
Sue the university for everything they've got. Make em have to sell the Carrier Dome to pay for the settlement.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 8/28/2020 10:44:07 AM (No. 523703)
Mr. Lin Wood, you have a call on hold.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/28/2020 10:44:17 AM (No. 523705)
I have a slightly different take on this. As much as I agree with the professor’s point of view, his language was politically inflammatory for a classroom setting. If we object to the Marxists behaving this way, we must abide by the same rules. No politics in the classroom.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 8/28/2020 10:46:46 AM (No. 523709)
It's Kung-Flu... and don't you forget it! LOL
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We had a Chinese high school stay with us for the last school year. In February, I asked her what they were calling the virus in China. She said they simply call it "Wuhan"... saying, for example, "He has Wuhan."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/28/2020 11:02:53 AM (No. 523738)
University education has jumped the shark.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/28/2020 12:03:20 PM (No. 523821)
Sue the crap out of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Polecat49 8/28/2020 12:11:43 PM (No. 523830)
The most STUPID comunists or demoncRATS of the STUPID now run the so-called syracuse university. They in effect say "To H-ll with the Constitution of the United States", AND that they wish to follow the ways of ANTI-American, HATE the American People ? professors ?.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/28/2020 1:01:00 PM (No. 523874)
On our wedding day back in December of 1980, hubby and I both were suffering from Bangkok flu. Guess where it originated? Sickest I’ve been in my adult life.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
SALady 8/28/2020 1:02:12 PM (No. 523876)
Lie-beral professors call for the torture and death of conservatives and President Trump and his family, and the colleges just say "free speech" and refuse to do anything.
But this professor speaks the truth, and is kicked off of campus and loses his job.
Hypocrisy at it's most blatant!!!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/28/2020 1:22:09 PM (No. 523894)
#9; I respectfully disagree. You don't fight enforced censorship by censoring more people. Political Science, anyone?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/28/2020 3:27:51 PM (No. 524025)
#15, Bangkok flu on your honeymoon? the joke writes itself.
Will Syracuse University fire a History professor if he talks about the Spanish Flu of 1917? How about Lyme disease? Or Rocky Mountain spotted fever? German Measles?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ocho reales 8/28/2020 5:40:09 PM (No. 524112)
As a Syracuse University graduate they will no longer receive an annual gift from me. This baloney has got to stop. Alums have it in their power with their donations and endowments to make their displeasure felt.
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Professor, you have used derogatory language when describing the origin if the pandemic. AND we have found out that your great grandmother was 1/2 Jewish. Pack your bags and get in the train.