Fordham Professor Loses Job For Confusing Names of 2 Black Students

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UTExan
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fordham-professor-loses-job-for-misnaming-black-student/ar-AARlF42?li=BBnbfcL

…and the students weren't even upset.

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" A professor of English at Fordham University was fired for confusing the names of two black students after one arrived to his class late."

"Christopher Trogan taught a composition class at Fordham until he was suspended by the New York City Catholic university two days after he accidentally called the student the wrong name. "

" But the students, the Observer reported, believed that he misnamed them because of their race and raised the issue with Trogan, who promptly sent an email to the entire class apologizing for the mix-up."

"But two days later, on Sept. 26, Trojan, who did not have tenure at the university, was placed on administrative leave over the incident. And a month later, on Oct. 25, he was fired."

"The Fordham Observer quoted a number of students of Trogan's, including those involved in the name mix-up, who believed the decision to fire him was excessive."
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Maroon Dawn
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So per these same universities:

Everything must be seen through the lens of race and to deny a racial component of anything is racist and to claim colorblindness is EXTRA racist….

But we also have to pretend we don't see that two students are black and those are their names

Double Plus Good Think
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HartWorm93
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Excessive? What did they think would happen?
YouBet
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Good god that is ridiculous. Great way to cause people to completely disassociate with black people out of sheer fear of their livelihood.

Thanks again Democrats for sowing such racial discord.
AgsWin2011
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Damn sometimes I call my kids by each others names. Sometimes I even call them by the dogs name. Guess I should just kill myself.
Mega Lops
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Clown world. Honk honk.
jopatura
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https://fordhamobserver.com/66231/news/questions-remain-after-sudden-termination-of-english-professor/

If you read the original article from Fordham, it seems more like he was a bat**** loon over the whole thing. I could see the school taking the opportunity to get rid of crazy, especially since once he finished up this year he'd be locked into tenure and union protection.
Muy
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Liberals and CM's, this is all on you.
medwriter
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Heismenberg said:

Damn sometimes I call my kids by each others names. Sometimes I even call them by the dogs name. Guess I should just kill myself.
Don't forget to live play it on twitter or instagram!

You know this is in jest, of course. Sadly, these days one can never be too sure, everyone is out to take the shortcut to success or monetize their nonsense.
hbtheduce
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I celebrate and welcome the collapse of the university system in its current form.
HollywoodBQ
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The MSN article is so well written that they misname the Professor.
Trogan vs. Trojan

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But the students, the Observer reported, believed that he misnamed them because of their race and raised the issue with Trogan, who promptly sent an email to the entire class apologizing for the mix-up.

But two days later, on Sept. 26, Trojan, who did not have tenure at the university, was placed on administrative leave over the incident. And a month later, on Oct. 25, he was fired.
And the best part is that he accuser / complainer gets to remain anonymous so we can't even judge if this mis-naming was reasonable.

We also don't know what the student was called versus what name they preferred to be called by.
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