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Professor Gordon Klein at UCLA is suing the school after they put him on involuntary leave and allegedly threatening to fire him because he refuses to grade Black students more lenient than Whites evidently believing both groups of students have the same intellectual abilities and should be treated equally.
Klein has taught at UCLA for 40 years and is at the Anderson School of Management. He has taught 15 courses and has been a guest on CNBC and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
“Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers,” wrote Klein in an op-ed on Bari Weiss’s “Common Sense” newsletter on Substack.
“Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers,” wrote Klein in an op-ed on Bari Weiss’s “Common Sense” newsletter on Substack.
The dean of UCLA’s business school, who apparently believes that Blacks are intellectually inferior and should be given a break with grading, launched an investigation into Klein’s actions. He put him on leave and attempted to terminate him, according to Klein.
Although Klein was reinstated after three weeks, the highly publicized situation over the matter his negatively impacted on his consultancy practice and led him to lose out on lucrative expert witness contracts, which had comprised the bulk of his income, according to the suit.
Klein also alleges in the suit that he “suffered severe emotional distress, trauma and physical ailments” as a result of the school’s actions.
Klein also alleges in the suit that he “suffered severe emotional distress, trauma and physical ailments” as a result of the school’s actions.
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This all began June 2, 2020 on the heels of the George Floyd case, just eight days after George Floyd died under the knee of then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
Floyd had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a village of Hillary Clinton supporters.
Klein was reinstated three weeks after being put on leave.
An unidentified unaware racist White student e-mailed Professor Klein and asked for a “no harm” final for Black students — meaning poor grades wouldn’t be counted — because the anonymous unaware racist White student believed that Black students would not do as well on the exam.
An unidentified unaware racist White student e-mailed Professor Klein and asked for a “no harm” final for Black students — meaning poor grades wouldn’t be counted — because the anonymous unaware racist White student believed that Black students would not do as well on the exam.
The email added, “[It’s] not a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students, but rather an ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major.”
In the op-ed, Klein wrote that he was “shocked” by the proposal, which he found “deeply patronizing and offensive” to Black students.
Klein shot back with a sarcastic reply, which critics slammed as racist. Antonio Bernardo, the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, allegedly tried to have Klein fired because he too believes that Black students need to be graded according to their skin color.
“Are there any students that may be of mixed parentages, such as half Black half-Asian?” Klein wrote in his reply. “What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?
“Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they are probably especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a White student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not.”
In the op-ed, Klein wrote that he was “shocked” by the proposal, which he found “deeply patronizing and offensive” to Black students.
Klein shot back with a sarcastic reply, which critics slammed as racist. Antonio Bernardo, the dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, allegedly tried to have Klein fired because he too believes that Black students need to be graded according to their skin color.
“Are there any students that may be of mixed parentages, such as half Black half-Asian?” Klein wrote in his reply. “What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?
“Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they are probably especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a White student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not.”
The response, which was posted to social media, ignited a firestorm, and a petition demanding his termination garnered more than 20,000 signatures by people who don't see the racism in their beliefs.
Klein is alleging breach of contract and other claims and is suing the school for unspecified damages “not only to redress the wrongful conduct he has endured but also to protect academic freedom.”
UCLA did not respond to the media's request for comment and still sucks when it comes to wokeness.
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