Jan 23, 2008

Academic Freedom and bad words

A Brandeis professor has been found "guilty of racial harassment" after he uttered the word "wetbacks" in his Latin American Politics course. The professor used the term wetbacks when explaining to his class "that Mexican migrants in the United States are sometimes referred to pejoratively as 'wetbacks.'"

Brandeis students and professors who disagree with this violation of academic freedom should all get together and simultaneously use the word "wetbacks" in some non-offensive sentence and then dare the university to punish them all.