https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...onger-teaching
Cliffs:
- A black drama student told a visiting professor at Coastal Carolina University (CCU) that she wanted to meet "nonwhite students". The professor complied with the request, and wrote a name of their nonwhite students on a whiteboard.
- The teacher didn't erase the whiteboard. Other students came in later and came to the very rational and totally sane conclusion that this was a list of nonwhite students to target in some way (lol).
- An "investigation" ensued, and instead of just explaining the truth and being done with it, everyone apologized to the offended students. The department head apologized. The visiting professor (who had done absolutely nothing wrong) apologized, writing, "No matter the good intention. ... I still want you to know I’m an idiot and I am sorry."
- One of the drama professors in the e-mail chain -- the lone conservative in the drama department at CCU -- thought this was all ridiculous. Steve Earnest, who is white and 62, wrote in a department-wide e-mail, "Sorry but I don’t think it’s a big deal. I'm just sad people get their feelings hurt so easily. And they are going into Theatre?"
- Everyone freaked out and demanded his resignation. He was then fired from teaching by the woke drama department and given bullshit background administrative jobs.
- There are further demands to fire him completely
Apparently there was a Title IX complaint against him for another incident. What horrible, awful thing did he do that time?
On Instagram, he wrote, "Sorry, not attractive", as a comment on this video where a student flipped off the camera:
https://instagram.com/p/CHrDetIF451/
Why was there a Title IX complaint? Because he said "not attractive", and that was supposedly about the girl's race -- not that she's flipping off the camera for no reason.
Anyway, the school kept pressuring him to take early retirement. He refused to do so, and in fact claimed that his rights to free speech, due process, and academic freedom were being violated.
He ultimately won his appeal, and he's going to be back to teaching in January 2022.
Keep in mind that everyone agrees at this point that the whiteboard thing was a complete misunderstanding. Earnest wasn't even involved in that incident -- he was only commenting that these students needed to toughen up, given the rigors and frequent rejections in the world of theater. For that, they want him fired.
See next post for some lol excerpts from the article.