Maoist "Re-education": After Campus Uproar, Princeton Proposes to Fire Tenured Professor (salary, healthcare)

[jbgusa]

After Campus Uproar, Princeton Proposes to Fire Tenured Professor (link).
Here's some background. Several years ago, Professor Joshua Katz (link to bio) was suspended for one year without pay because of an incident with a female student. " Excerpt:

Originally Posted by New York Times

But with attention focused on Dr. Katz, the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, began an investigation of sexual harassment accusations against him. It culminated in a lengthy report in February 2021 about his sexual relationship with the undergraduate.
Princeton already knew about her. The university had started an investigation after it learned of the relationship in late 2017, about ten years after it happened, and Dr. Katz confessed to a consensual affair. He was quietly suspended without pay for a year.

In July 2020, when the U.S. was roiled by protests concerning the Minneapolis murder of George Floyd, Professor Katz penned this essay, A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor. The essay was triggered by a “Faculty Letter” which started off:

Originally Posted by Letter to Administration of Princeton

Anti-Blackness is foundational to America. It plays a role in where we live and where we are welcome. It influences the level of healthcare we receive. It determines the degree of risk we are assumed to pose in contexts from retail to lending and beyond. It informs the expectations and tactics of law-enforcement. Anti-Black racism has hamstrung our political process. It is rampant in even our most “progressive” communities. And it plays a powerful role at institutions like Princeton, despite declared values of diversity and inclusion.

Professor Katz's essay states, in relevant part:

But then there are dozens of proposals that, if implemented, would lead to civil war on campus and erode even further public confidence in how elite institutions of higher education operate. Some examples: “Reward the invisible work done by faculty of color with course relief and summer salary” and “Faculty of color hired at the junior level should be guaranteed one additional semester of sabbatical” and “Provide additional human resources for the support of junior faculty of color.” Let’s leave aside who qualifies as “of color,” though this is not a trivial point. It boggles my mind that anyone would advocate giving people—extraordinarily privileged people already, let me point out: Princeton professors—extra perks for no reason other than their pigmentation.
“Establish a core distribution requirement focused on the history and legacy of racism in the country and on the campus.” There would be wisdom in this time of disunity in suggesting (not, in my view, requiring) that students take courses in American history and constitutionalism, both of which almost inevitably consider slavery and race, but that is not the same thing. Not incidentally, if you believe anti-blackness to be foundational, it is not a stretch to imagine that you will teach the 1619 Project as dogma.

Basically, Professor Katz is being fired because of incorrect thought. This reeks of Maoist China, not the America I love. I have saved Professor Katz's bio on my blogs, in the likeley event it is taken down. DM me for a copy.

[uggabugga]

in history books, they should call this the democrat struggle sessions.

The Disgraceful Firing of Joshua T. Katz
Joshua Katz knew it was dangerous to go public with his objections to a Princeton faculty letter, but he did so because his conscience demanded it. For this, he has paid an intolerable price.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

in history books, they should call this the democrat struggle sessions.

The Disgraceful Firing of Joshua T. Katz
Joshua Katz knew it was dangerous to go public with his objections to a Princeton faculty letter, but he did so because his conscience demanded it. For this, he has paid an intolerable price.

No kidding. It is now a firing, no longer "proposed." Two of the suggestions from the "open letter" Professor Katz criticized (link):

14. Acknowledge on the homepage that the University is sited on indigenous land, as many Canadian universities do. Such a statement cannot be relegated to a special page about “inclusive Princeton.” The statement on our homepage should explicitly acknowledge that this land is unceded, as follows: “We acknowledge that the land of this University is the unceded traditional territory of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation.” This corrects the current statement, which does not include this important fact about how founders of the University settled on this land.

15. Remove questions about misdemeanors and felony convictions from admissions applications, and all applications to work and/or study at Princeton. In recognition that mass incarceration and predatory policing not only menace the safety of all people of color at the University and their families but also hinder our community's progress towards racial justice, heed the Princeton Faculty Call to Action to Divest from Private Prison and Detention Corporations.

Now, would you want your son or daughter living in a dorm with violent convicted felons? Or is that "white privilege"?