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发信人: TFollowerII (铿锵声中见制造业复兴), 信区: USANews
标 题: 芝加哥教授不干了，因为LGBT学生把学校由学术变成了白色恐怖的纳粹战场
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 27 08:58:43 2017, 美东)
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/07/21/chicago-professor-resigns-after-being-attacked-by-a-small-group-of-militant-lgbt-students/
Chicago professor resigns after being attacked by a small group of ‘
militant LGBT students’
One Chicago art professor resigned from his post earlier this month after a
“small cadre of militant LGBT students with an authoritarian agenda”
continually accused him of “racism” and “homophobia.”
The Art Institute of Chicago, professor Michael Bonesteel told the Chicago
Reader, “feels more like a police state than a place where academic freedom
and the open exchange of ideas is valued.”
Ultimately, Bonesteel, who had been teaching at the institute for nearly 15
years, decided to leave the school after two separate student-involved
incidents that happened in the span of three days last December.
The first incident occurred Dec. 12, when Bonesteel was leading a discussion
about Chicago artist Henry Darger, whose artwork often depicted young girls
with male genitalia. He mentioned the popular theory that Darger’s work
might be the result of childhood sexual abuse — an idea that apparently
frustrated one transgender student.
“The student said there was no proof that Darger was sexually abused, and
therefore, I was wrong in proposing the theory,” Bonesteel said, noting
that he agreed there is no definitive proof, but pointing out that it is a
common theory among art scholars.
Though Dean of Faculty Lisa Wainwright ultimately decided that the
transgender student’s complaint was unfounded, Bonesteel met with a school
diversity counselor and, following the counselor’s advice, apologized for
his “insensitivity,” admitting he “should have treated the subject with
more delicacy.”
Then, just two days later, the second problem cropped up. During a similar
discussion session in another class, according to Bonesteel, a student went
off on a “long diatribe about perceived anti-Semitic attitudes” of Gerard
Jones, the author of a book assigned to the class. The student proceeded to
complain about the institute’s treatment of transgender and minority
students and then accused Bonesteel specifically of “racism and homophobia.”
The same student also complained about a lack of trigger warning during a
discussion of an implied rape in another assigned text.
When the student complained about the interaction, Bonesteel said,
Wainwright “ultimately ‘determined that it is more likely than not that
your conduct in relation to this student constituted harassment based on
gender-identity in violation of the School’s Policy Against Discrimination,
Harassment and Retaliation.’”
Several months later, another student who witnessed the entire ordeal issued
a complaint to administration, claiming to have been “troubled by the
incident.”
As a result of the two incidents and three student complaints, Bonesteel
said he was told by administration he would no longer be teaching courses on
comics, where the two interactions occurred. And his hours for the 2017-
2018 school year were slashed so much that he no longer qualified for health
insurance benefits.
Bonesteel told the Reader he “could have lived with” making adjustments to
his courses, but to be “labeled discriminatory and charged with sexual
harassment because I got into a heated debate with a hostile student who
happened to be transgender … seems entirely unfair.
“Then, to be punished by refusing to let me teach three comics courses, in
which I had invested 12 years of time and effort and love, and in the
process take away my insurance benefits,” he continued, “these were the
conditions that I found unacceptable.”
In his resignation letter, the longtime art scholar, who called the
institute a “toxic environment,” wrote that he believed the entire
situation to be “an abuse of Title IX protections.”
The Chicago school, it should be noted, tells an entirely different story.
Institute spokeswoman Bree Witt told The College Fix this week that
Bonesteel “chose to leave the school.”
In a separate statement, Wainwright claimed the school never “infringed on
[Bonesteel’s] academic freedom” because doing so would be “anathema to
our pedagogy.” |
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