Ethics

Hentoff on the Madness of Brandeis

By Ed Brayton

Nat Hentoff, the only sane person the Worldnutdaily has writing for them, devotes a column to a story I've been following at Brandeis University.

For years, I have reported on many cases of college and university administrators infected with "political correctness," punishing students and faculty members for allegedly prejudicial and otherwise "offensive" remarks - as if there were a constitutional right not to be offended. I have now found the most outrageous case of all.

At Brandeis University in Massachusetts, professor Donald Hindley - on the faculty for 48 years - teaches a course on Latin American politics. Last fall, he described how Mexican migrants to the United States used to be discriminatorily called "wetbacks." An anonymous student complained to the administration, accusing Hindley of using prejudicial language - the first complaint against him in 48 years.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 04, 2008 (boomark / email).