About a month ago, a Law professor at University of Wisconsin/Madison, Leonard Kaplan, said in class certain things about the Hmong ethnic minority in Wisconsin. The Hmong are a people from Vietnam who live a primitive lifestyle but who opposed the Communists in the Vietnam war. To escape persecution by the Communists, many were given refuge in the USA -- where they have shown their gratitude by becoming a highly criminal group.
Kaplan was initially reported by someone who was not at the lecture of making some sweeping and derogatory statments about the Hmong. For a Jewish law professor to make sweeping and derogatory statemnents about another racial group does of course greatly strain credibility and the accusations were subsequently withdrawn. But around a month has now gone by and no-one so far seems willing to summarize what he did say. One has to suspect that he simply mentioned some undeniable truths. But whatever he said is still "racism"!
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Making ANY statements about ethnic minorities is probably "racist" these days. Maybe Kaplan referred to this notorious case.
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The article you cite is out of date (March 1st). Professor Kaplan posted a detailed pdf of a letter describing the whole situation.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.channel3000.com/download/2007/0306/11183313.pdf
Evidently the Hmong were angry at the Prof. for things he didn't say and other things taken out of context.
ReplyDeleteThey were angered by a report from a person who was not present at the class where all this came up.
It works like this:
First the denunciations
Then the retribution
Once that is done you can have any facts you like (which will be ignored)
The Commies had this down with their "self criticism" routines.
The left is still the left.
BTW I was re-reading my Hayek and found that what we are going through with the leftist university is nothing new. They had problems with those guys during WW2.