UCLA professor suspended, labeled a racist because he refused to grade black students more leniently

John Sexton Sep 30, 2021

In the wake of the death of George Floyd last year, a student in professor Gordon Klein’s class on tax principles at the UCLA Anderson School of Management sent an email asking that Klein go easy on black students when grading the upcoming final. Klein notes that the student who wrote the email was not black.............

It’s at this point that professor Klein made a mistake or, at the least, did something he now recognizes was naïve in the current environment. Instead of tap-dancing around the issue of giving in to the demand for unequal treatment based on race (as he was aware other professors were talking about doing), he wrote a response 20 minutes later which suggested the idea of treating students this way was at odds with MLK’s dream of a society where treatment of people was not based on race. It’s worth noting that the student who had sent the intial letter was one Klein knew from a previous class so they had something of a friendly relationship. Here’s the full text of Klein’s response:.............

Not long after his response, the student who’d sent the first email apologized: ................

Klein assumed that would be the end of it. Instead, part of the exchange wound up being posted online and screenshots were sent around including to Professor Brett Trueman, the head of the school’s Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Trueman called the letter “inexcusable.” By that evening students were calling Klein a racist and demanding his resignation..............Over the next week, Klein received death threats on his voicemail and police officers were eventually stationed outside his house. The school’s dean responded to the situation not by defending Klein but by suspending him and banning him from campus...................Now Klein is suing the UC system for breach of contract, for violating his right to privacy, for placing him in a false light, for retaliation and for negligent interference with his consulting business. The complaint doesn’t list a specific amount sought for each of the causes of action but just says the amount will be proven at trial...........To Read More...

Our Group's Take - The sheer level of insanity displayed by Universities these days is horrifying. I'm glad he's suing, and hope he wins a huge settlement.

My Take - The fact is academia has been buckling under to these misfit radicals since the 1960's with Black Panther types threatening the professor's lives, along with the anti-Vietnam crowd storming their offices.  Ohio's governor Rhodes, long dead, has been consistently criticized for sending the national guard to Kent State University to put an end to the riots there, which were absolutely violent.  They opened fire on a crowd and killed some young people. 

It turned out a large number of those young demonstrators weren't even students at Kent, or elsewhere if I remember correctly, and one young girl that was killed was a runaway from home.  The end result was that ended campus riots at American universities.  

Now these university administrations are filled with these kinds of misfits, and it's high time we stopped funding them, ended student loans, started taxing them, including their endowment funds, which in many cases runs into the billions of dollars, and started a program of aggressive legal action over this kind of thing and over what they're teaching the students, including suing these misfit left wing professors personally.   

I hate that kind of thing, but the fact of the matter is that's been the modus operandi of the left for decades, and it works, ergo, that's what needs to be done.  Along with a program to fight every lawsuit the left puts into play that destroys the traditional and foundational values of America, waters down real education, real history and panders to leftist insanity promoting socialism