Share this page!

Richard W. Painter Profile picture
Twitter logo
6 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ridiculous. After being reprimanded for using racist slurs in class a professor- encouraged by "academic freedom" jihadists around the Country- persists. Did any of these people ask students how they feel about it?
campustimes.org/2021/12/05/pro… via @campustimes
This defense of using the n-word in class is indefensible.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/11/u…
"After class, Taylor filed a bias-related incident report and dropped the course."
Great learning experience for a Black student. The professor should be ashamed.
Some people's idea of "academic freedom" is that professors can say anything they want in the classroom and continue to get paid while students have to continue to pay tuition and put up with it. Who's the paying customer? Any other business run this way would be bankrupt.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Richard W. Painter

Richard W. Painter Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @RWPUSA

Richard W. Painter Profile picture
3 Dec
Amazing. Former DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark to plead the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. It's truly pathetic that DOJ sank so low that DOJ attorneys fear criminal prosecution.

Jan. 6 panel faces new test as first witness pleads the Fifth news.yahoo.com/jan-6-panel-fa…
U.S. House January 6 Committee Deposition of Jeffrey Clark (who refused to answer) “We wanted to ask him about interaction with a man named John Lott, who worked at the Department of Justice and wrote a memo that involved some allegations of voter fraud.”
docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ…
Bottom line: Jeffrey Clark will plead the Fifth. He was dealing with another DOJ lawyer (presumably @JohnRLottJr, also known for empirical studies on guns saying what the NRA wants to hear). Lott was working on a memo on "election fraud." All of these guys should get subpoenaed.
Read 6 tweets
Richard W. Painter Profile picture
29 Nov
I don't see a threat to academic freedom from administrators trying to force a consensus on the Rittenhouse verdict. What I do see is the NRA and its allies in politics and academia trying to force a consensus on laws that allow a 17 year old to use an AR-15 at a protest rally.
Do our politicians not see anything wrong with the law allowing a 17 year old to bring an AR-15 to a protest rally? No wonder students on college campuses, particularly in urban areas, are scared for their lives. That's the real "academic freedom" issue. The time to act is now.
It's about time college students ask their professors and administrators why campuses, particularly in urban areas, are becoming war zones. I discussed part of the problem here in 2012. It's only gotten worse.
nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opi…
Read 4 tweets
Richard W. Painter Profile picture
19 Nov
Two of the dumbest political and economic philosophies in the history of civilization are Marxism and unregulated capitalism. Failure to regulate banks is a sure way to cause a collapse that puts Marxists or other authoritarians in control.
Confirm her.
finance.yahoo.com/news/senators-…
I have yet to meet an intelligent person in America who believes in either Marxism or unregulated capitalism. Our capitalist economy will thrive if we find the middle ground and stay there. Saule Omarova should be confirmed for OCC.
If I saw a shred of sympathy for Marxist economics or philosophy in any of the many publications Saule Omarova has written in the United States, I would have strongly opposed her nomination to the OCC.
It's simply not there. The Senate GOP is telling a boldfaced lie!
Shameful!
Read 5 tweets
Richard W. Painter Profile picture
18 Nov
The University of Chicago for decades has lived in an intellectual bubble, indulging in abstract theory while crime overtakes the surrounding community. Better policing is a solution, but so are racial justice, affordable housing, and economic opportunity.
wgntv.com/news/chicago-n…
The solution is NOT the U. of Chicago law professors telling law deans to be silent about racism and the killing of George Floyd and other unarmed Black men. Reforming policing is essential to fighting crime, and all community leaders need to be part of the conversation.
Here's an idea: How about U. Chicago academics stop whining about "cancel culture" and people being too "woke" and instead focus on sky rocketing crime, racism, lack of housing and limited economic opportunity in the surrounding neighborhood.
chicagobusiness.com/education/univ…
Read 4 tweets
Richard W. Painter Profile picture
4 Nov
Why does the University of Minnesota have higher in-state tuition than flagship campuses in surrounding states?
Let's start with a bought election to the Board of Regents.
We need a new legislature and a new governor. Voters have had enough!
startribune.com/lawmakers-rege…
Card games in an academic program? How about lower tuition, less spending and letting students play cards on their own?
startribune.com/bridge-playing…
U. of Minnesota tuition is over three times tuition in 2000. How many families (other than families of politicians and PAC donors) do you know who make three times what they made in 2000?
Tuition is 12 times more than in 1980.
Time to boot the politicians.
ohe.state.mn.us/dPg.cfm?pageID…
Read 4 tweets
Richard W. Painter Profile picture
2 Nov
Attn. law professors:
Earn $1000 honorarium and trip to Squaw Creek ski resort. Learn all about free market economics and evils of government regulation. Let the corporate donors foot the bill!
There's an even fancier program too -- but that's for judges.
masonlec.org/events/worksho…
"public choice, including interest group theory, rent-seeking, rent-extraction, agency capture, bureaucracy and constitutional economics, regulatory competition, the political theory of loopholes, Bootleggers and Baptists phenomena, and public choice of the judiciary."
Bootleggers and Baptists is a theory about opposing groups supporting regulation that benefits them but not the public. E.g. Prohibition. Then we can compare all government regulation to Prohibition.
But let's not talk about abortion. That might upset the right wing donors.
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @RWPUSA has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @RWPUSA!

Read all threads by @RWPUSA

:(