This story is full of people lacking in perspective and common sense. The students who were offended should have accepted his apology and moved on. Their obsession with the minor violation of norms is silly. In modern culture what he did was inappropriate, but no one is seriously making the case that this is part a desire of movement to demean black people or normalize their status as second class citizens.
The students are fortunate to have a professor this accomplished and should toughen up a slight amount. I have no idea if he was aware of how this would be received and didn’t care. Or if he was unaware and this was an honest mistake. Either way, his apology should end the matter.
The people asserting that this is in some meaningful way similar to Mao’s cultural revolution are equally deserving of scorn.They ways in which this differs from the cultural revolution so out number it’s similarities that that seriously making that comparison undercuts their credibility and robs force from the reasonable parts of their argument.
Small consolation to Mr. Sheng, but hopefully the tide will turn.
The other day an SF landlord who owns Brentwood Country Mart, a local Country Mart in Montecito was excoriated as racist for denying a lease extension to a Mexican style food restaurant owned by some very nice people some have characterized as "non-white" The SF landlord is Jewish and used to work for Ted Kennedy. He is an a**, but his racism remains ill-defined. The owners of the restaurant look and sound white to me, have white sounding sur names, but as long time local residents they have Mexican ancestors in their past, not that it should matter, but are 1/16 "non-white" for the purposes of this internecine squabble because some liberal people like the food and like the prices. The landlord is a racist because he owns commercial property and the lease is up on a restaurant that serves a type of food known as Mexican. Personally I think the food is guilty of cultural appropriation because, its mediocre food from a can.
At this point, apologies over nontroveries only fan the flames for these grievance mongering woke leftists, both students and faculty. No apology is ever sufficient for them. Professor Sheng is morally in a sound position to tell them to go pound sand. Maybe in the future, those who find themselves in the same position as Bright Sheng, can think twice before issuing a fruitless groveling apology to the mob.
This story is full of people lacking in perspective and common sense. The students who were offended should have accepted his apology and moved on. Their obsession with the minor violation of norms is silly. In modern culture what he did was inappropriate, but no one is seriously making the case that this is part a desire of movement to demean black people or normalize their status as second class citizens.
The students are fortunate to have a professor this accomplished and should toughen up a slight amount. I have no idea if he was aware of how this would be received and didn’t care. Or if he was unaware and this was an honest mistake. Either way, his apology should end the matter.
The people asserting that this is in some meaningful way similar to Mao’s cultural revolution are equally deserving of scorn.They ways in which this differs from the cultural revolution so out number it’s similarities that that seriously making that comparison undercuts their credibility and robs force from the reasonable parts of their argument.
Small consolation to Mr. Sheng, but hopefully the tide will turn.
The other day an SF landlord who owns Brentwood Country Mart, a local Country Mart in Montecito was excoriated as racist for denying a lease extension to a Mexican style food restaurant owned by some very nice people some have characterized as "non-white" The SF landlord is Jewish and used to work for Ted Kennedy. He is an a**, but his racism remains ill-defined. The owners of the restaurant look and sound white to me, have white sounding sur names, but as long time local residents they have Mexican ancestors in their past, not that it should matter, but are 1/16 "non-white" for the purposes of this internecine squabble because some liberal people like the food and like the prices. The landlord is a racist because he owns commercial property and the lease is up on a restaurant that serves a type of food known as Mexican. Personally I think the food is guilty of cultural appropriation because, its mediocre food from a can.
At this point, apologies over nontroveries only fan the flames for these grievance mongering woke leftists, both students and faculty. No apology is ever sufficient for them. Professor Sheng is morally in a sound position to tell them to go pound sand. Maybe in the future, those who find themselves in the same position as Bright Sheng, can think twice before issuing a fruitless groveling apology to the mob.