Thanks for the plain-language explanations! They are really helpful.
What these instructors engaged it wasn't just pedagogically poor in quality, wasn't just academically unethical, it was illegally racist; it was harassment and abuse of young, inexperienced, trusting white students who had a reasonable expectation of being treated respectfully. The instructors were trying to teach them that they have character flaws specifically because they are white, and intentionally humiliating them when they resisted the attempt.
All you have to do is reconsider it with the races switched, and the offense becomes obvious.
The unspoken assumption they make, of course, is that corrective racism against white people doesn't count as racism under civil rights laws. Alas, they're wrong, as SCOTUS has made clear.
The students subjected to this have every right to sue the instructors and their university for violating their civil rights. I hope they are filing Federal complaints with OCR right now.
I don't disagree. At the same time, from my own experience, I can tell you that the legal protections that should be providing the appropriate checks for this kind of behavior are not functioning properly. Some of that is due to the American Bar Association, a monopoly accreditor, requiring the same sort of 'education' for all young law students. This has been reshaping the judiciary for the past 20 years or more.
There are other legal choke points that have hampered other types of enforcement as well. I've been a part of filing several OCR complaints on similar grounds, and I have yet to see traction from that avenue.
The bottom line is that our existing law is meaningless if we don't have enforcement.
If the school doesn’t immediately terminate the employees and seek out-of-court settlement they are going to be subject to steep penalties of the students have a good lawyer.
It’s not just an IRB issue, which is informed consent.
That's how it should work, but for a lot of reasons, our court systems and other enforcement branches aren't functioning as they should. That's what I've found in my situation, as have many other counseling students who have spoken out. The supports aren't there. Even filing a lawsuit is often cost-prohibitive much of the time, or gets dismissed by a biased judiciary, as happened in the Zack dePietro case. I helped go over the evidence Zack was presenting. That should have been an easy case to win.
Struggle session
Indeed. It's indoctrination on a large scale.
Exactly.
Thanks for the plain-language explanations! They are really helpful.
What these instructors engaged it wasn't just pedagogically poor in quality, wasn't just academically unethical, it was illegally racist; it was harassment and abuse of young, inexperienced, trusting white students who had a reasonable expectation of being treated respectfully. The instructors were trying to teach them that they have character flaws specifically because they are white, and intentionally humiliating them when they resisted the attempt.
All you have to do is reconsider it with the races switched, and the offense becomes obvious.
The unspoken assumption they make, of course, is that corrective racism against white people doesn't count as racism under civil rights laws. Alas, they're wrong, as SCOTUS has made clear.
The students subjected to this have every right to sue the instructors and their university for violating their civil rights. I hope they are filing Federal complaints with OCR right now.
I don't disagree. At the same time, from my own experience, I can tell you that the legal protections that should be providing the appropriate checks for this kind of behavior are not functioning properly. Some of that is due to the American Bar Association, a monopoly accreditor, requiring the same sort of 'education' for all young law students. This has been reshaping the judiciary for the past 20 years or more.
There are other legal choke points that have hampered other types of enforcement as well. I've been a part of filing several OCR complaints on similar grounds, and I have yet to see traction from that avenue.
The bottom line is that our existing law is meaningless if we don't have enforcement.
Spectacularly illegal.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/10-3604/10-3604-2012-12-03.html
If the school doesn’t immediately terminate the employees and seek out-of-court settlement they are going to be subject to steep penalties of the students have a good lawyer.
It’s not just an IRB issue, which is informed consent.
It’s like a delusional compulsion.
That's how it should work, but for a lot of reasons, our court systems and other enforcement branches aren't functioning as they should. That's what I've found in my situation, as have many other counseling students who have spoken out. The supports aren't there. Even filing a lawsuit is often cost-prohibitive much of the time, or gets dismissed by a biased judiciary, as happened in the Zack dePietro case. I helped go over the evidence Zack was presenting. That should have been an easy case to win.
What do you suggest as a remedy?