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Georgetown, American college devoted to the culture of cancellation

2021-06-02T21:51:41.837Z


INVESTIGATION - The slightest "language gap" of a professor allows certain activists to nail him to the pillory and ruin his career. Believing themselves to be persecuted, American minorities take power on campuses. Social networks reinforce a pack mentality.


Washington correspondent

At the end of one of her classes at Georgetown University Law School in Washington DC last February, Professor Sandra Sellers chats with a colleague, David Batson. Due to a pandemic, the course was held via Zoom video conferencing software and the two professors remained connected after the students had already left.

"You know what?

Sellers said to his colleague,

I hate to say that, but I end up having this angst every semester, because a lot of my students with the lowest grades are black. ” “It happens almost every semester,”

she continues.

And it's always the same, someone will tell me: “Oh, come on!

You know, you have some really good ones too. ”

But there are also generally some who are quite simply at the bottom of the rankings. "

Batson doesn't respond, but nods.

No one is logged in anymore, but the system continues to record their conversation.

Access to the video is however

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Source: lefigaro

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