Un-Safety School

In a recent op-ed piece, Nat Hentoff reminds us why he’s the kind of leftie Jewish icon Heeb should be profiling. Apparently, Brandeis University, named after a reasonably prominent defender of free speech, threatened a professor with termination for using the term "wetbacks" in class. The fact that the Professor Donald Hindley used it in a perfectly reasonable context (explaining that it was a derogatory term applied to Mexican migrants) didn’t seem to hold much sway with Brandeis Prexy Jehuda Reinharz and other university muckety mucks, who made Professor Hindley–with nearly fived decades on the faculty–take a "sensitivity training course." While Brandeis may be rolling over in his grave, Jewdar couldn’t be prouder of President Reinharz, whose steadfast stupidity in the face of common sense serves as a powerful rejoinder to the antisemitic stereotype that all Jews are intellectually gifted.

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jewdar

The Tel Aviv-born, Milwaukee-bred Jewdar has a bachelors' from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters from NYU, and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, where he spent two years as an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division. He's the co-author of "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies", the Humor Editor of Heeb Magazine, and a watcher of TV. Smarter than most funny people, funnier than most smart people, he lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and two sons.

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  1. mrnhghts

    No, Jewdar. If someone uses a derogatory term — even in historical and educational context, this is a wonderful opportunity for the rest of us in the group to out do each other in expressing exasperation and anger at racism generally by screaming at the

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