Georgetown Law professor
caught complaining about
black students on Zoom: video
New York Post,
by
Joshua Rhett Miller
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/11/2021 11:08:31 AM
A white Georgetown Law professor belittled black students during a Zoom call with a colleague, saying they “usually” perform “just plain at the bottom” of her classes, according to video posted online this week. The brief clip, posted to Twitter Wednesday, shows an adjunct professor of law identified by the Georgetown Black Law Students Association as Sandra Sellers and another faculty member, David Batson, having what they believed was a private discussion about a class they jointly taught. “I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks,” Sellers said. “Happens almost every semester.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 3/11/2021 11:11:50 AM (No. 720695)
Sometimes the truth hurts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Norway 3/11/2021 11:15:16 AM (No. 720698)
Affirmative Action admissions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gam 3/11/2021 11:23:02 AM (No. 720706)
It seems she is saying it upsets her that the black students aren't doing better. Perhaps she is seeking a way to help them rather than having them flunk out or br graduated without the skill they need to be successful.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/11/2021 11:23:22 AM (No. 720707)
She will be canceled for having 'impure thoughts'. The first (and greater) one was thinking there is 'privacy' in her conversation. It would have prevented the second one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/11/2021 11:30:14 AM (No. 720713)
It's just disgusting that this woman would blurt out the truth like that!
Next thing you know - - she'll be saying that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage of violent crimes. Let's have none of that!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TJ54 3/11/2021 11:30:37 AM (No. 720714)
The Obama story continues
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janjan 3/11/2021 11:34:04 AM (No. 720717)
This isn’t racist if it’s true. The real issue here is that black people cannot be criticized. It’s considered ‘abhorrent’. If she is fired, and she probably will be, it will do nothing to eliminate racism. It will make it worse.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
marbles 3/11/2021 11:40:30 AM (No. 720721)
The left has so destroyed free speech that anything negative re race or religion is " hate speech " Free speech is just that, free speech. It does not guarantee that someone won't be offended. muslim used to be the # 1 protected class but it's swung back to the black and alphabet people.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/11/2021 11:42:37 AM (No. 720722)
She'll be fired forthwith for stating the unvarnished truth about the results of affirmative action admissions - minority students who do badly in top universities because they don't have the skills necessary to succeed. This skills mismatch is what causes many to drop out of top universities.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sully 3/11/2021 11:48:40 AM (No. 720731)
It sounds like she is frustrated that some students are low achieving and don't belong in her class at one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. She says that these students are not adequate bc they have no communications skills, not bc they are black. Their inadequacies are not due to their race, according to her, as some others of that race are able to succeed.
She does recognize the race of her students, but they have asked to re recognized for their race vis a vis admission set asides and a students association based on race.
I sympathize with this prof and detect no racial malice in her words or intent.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 3/11/2021 11:51:04 AM (No. 720734)
Another liberal showing her true self.
I wonder how often she has supported the professional harassment of people who have expressed the same concern about their students?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
moebellini3 3/11/2021 11:59:13 AM (No. 720739)
That's it fire someone from telling the truth. Note she said having this angst. Angst is not belittling, its a kind of sorrow or worry she felt for them. Its not her fault, its the systems fault for pushing them through school even though the grades aren't there. Its the same thing with crime. They commit most of the violent crimes including murder in our country, yet you can't talk about it or you're a racist. Time for this country to grow up because this cancel culture and political correctness is destroying us.....Got it,,,,
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SALady 3/11/2021 12:27:21 PM (No. 720758)
While she spoke the truth, to do so over electronic media was suicide in these "woke" days!!!
There is no such thing as privacy or security when it comes to electronic media!!! Anyone who assumes otherwise will pay dearly for their naïve assumptions. If she were smart, she would resign and disappear before they can crucify her!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 3/11/2021 12:28:15 PM (No. 720759)
“We are responding with the utmost seriousness to this situation,” Treanor said. “I have watched a video of this conversation and find the content to be abhorrent. It includes conduct that has no place in our educational community. We must ensure that all students are treated fairly and evaluated on their merits.”
If Georgetown Law School treats all students fairly and evaluated on their merits (including grades that fairly reflect the work) far fewer would be graduating. The many undeserved diplomas will continue because the overarching concern is to keep the tuition money flowing in.
Students in the U.S. are awarded graduate school degrees although their work product is barely high school quality, especially writing. Heaven help us if this is happening in our medical schools.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LesUNo 3/11/2021 12:31:39 PM (No. 720762)
Was she to pretend otherwise? Apparently so. We are no longer permitted to “notice”.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/11/2021 12:48:47 PM (No. 720780)
ROTFLAMO! A white female turbo liberal, Law school professor gets caught. I hope the Woke do to her what they do to conservatives. Maybe she will finally realize Wokeness if an unforgiving mistress. And a law professor! That's the ultimate facist indoctrination facility in the US now. Braww, ha, ha ha...
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If she were making sure her black students were at the bottom, that would be racist. If she was gloating or proud of the fact her black students underperform, that would be racist. Noticing they're at the bottom isn't racist. Aren't we being told all the time by Dems and the MSM (I know, same thing...) that blacks are getting substandard education and aren't able to succeed when competing with whites? She says the same thing and is fired?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 3/11/2021 1:22:35 PM (No. 720825)
Truth is no longer permitted.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Luandir 3/11/2021 1:36:49 PM (No. 720844)
Big Brother is watching.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/11/2021 1:52:35 PM (No. 720858)
I guess they should just be graduated and be given a law degree. Problem is, the only place they could get a job would be with the government. Qualifications have been thrown overboard there.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jasmine 3/11/2021 2:36:07 PM (No. 720881)
I disagree with the premise of the reporter, who first notes the professor is WHITE, and then accuses her of "belittling" students. That's not what I see.
The professor is not judging the character of her black students. She's concerned by consistently low performance. No matter what group is under-performing, one would expect professors to be troubled by that, and to discuss the issue with colleagues. Are they all seeing the same thing? What can be done about it? What would her critics have her do? Not care about those students and just go about her business?
When my sons were in law school, I understood them to say they used a code or some other ID system, so that when their law professors graded or evaluated their work, they wouldn't know which student produced that work. I assumed that was done to ensure the WORK was evaluated, and not the student. Maybe someone here knows more about that.
Anyway, I wonder about the reporters and the students, and their immediately jumping to conclude the professor is "racist." I'm starting to think the word has been so overused, it's primarily a way to provoke emotion and and anger, rather than carefully thinking through what other explanation that "racism" might there be for the professor's expressed concern...?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
dmzrn 3/11/2021 3:11:07 PM (No. 720908)
File under: "The Truth Hurts"
In the early 70's I worked at a teaching hospital in D.C. and had the burden of working with two A-A interns, one of which was not very bright, and the other was lazy--couldn't be bothered to get out of bed at night when on call. Affirmative action has lowered many bars.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/11/2021 3:20:17 PM (No. 720922)
and there won't be a school that will touch her when she gets axed.
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Make a statement of fact, even expressing the frustration about that fact (likely in the context of being pressured to advance students who are unqualified and probably shouldn't even be in class) and the call goes out to have you fired. Marxism in action, we asked for it, we got it.