White professor says the N-word three times in class, gets put on paid leave

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A Pennsylvania professor is under school investigation after he was caught on video saying the N-word three times in a class.

Gary Shank, a professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, was put on paid leave Friday, local ABC affiliate WTAE reported. Hours earlier, a Duquesne student posted video of him saying the N-word. (Warning: video contains explicit content)

“When I was a young man, that was a very commonly used word. You know what Brazil nuts are, right?” Shank asked his class. “When I was a kid, people called them [N-word] toes.”

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[Grokenstein]

1. Oh, well, that makes it okay, then! /sarcasm

Bet he knows all sorts of vile slurs that used to be commonly used words!

"Paid leave." Fuck that noise.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

2. I love Brazil Nuts and if you give me a can of opened mixed nuts, you'll not have any left!

Yeah, but I haven't called them 'what we did as kids'... well, since around 1965 or 1966.

We also had a ditty which I'll of course change....

Two Little Rednecks lying in bed,
One turned over and the other said,
I see your hiney all white and shiney,
When it wiggles, it gives me the giggles.

Put away childish things, especially from the 1960s.

[delisen]

7. Never heard these as a child

I never heard either of these as a child or the third example he gave .

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

8. Alabama... nuff said. N/t

[Igel]

9. Never heard the "rich" example as a kid.

Learned the word "Brazil nuts" from the container. Not a word that my mother ever used. They were always the "toe" variant.

My father never used either of them. As far as I know, he never actually referred to the inedible little things that i'd leave at the bottom of the can of mixed nuts.


Maryland.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. A year from now he will be a white nationalist hero in the new white country.

But Hillary gave a speech once

[milestogo]

4. Unless the actual content of the class included the history of racial slurs in America

I can't think of any reason to mention that. Looks like an excuse to say what is on his mind.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I don't know...

... about the video. From what's there in the OP, it seems like an unnecessary comment. On the other hand, I've been in classrooms where the word is used. Appropriately, I think... but one discussion was how The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would read with the word removed. Some say it would still be as great a novel.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Fuck this guy.