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Former LSU Law Professor Jason Kilborn Suspended for redacted slurs in law school exam
Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:26 pm
Not sure how I missed this one when it first came through a couple of years ago. I searched around here and couldn't find anything.
Jason Kilborn was probably the single best professor I had at LSU Law back in the early 2000s. Looks like he moved on from LSU and joined the University of Illinois Chicago, where he is a tenured professor. The long and short of it is:
Like I said, Jason was far and away my best professor, and he was/is incredibly passionate. I remember talking to him out behind the Law Center when he went off on a tirade against the School and its administration. He clearly had zero fricks to give.
Any of you fellow lawyers from LSU take Jason or have more insight into this deal with the UIC?
ETA: LINK
Jason Kilborn was probably the single best professor I had at LSU Law back in the early 2000s. Looks like he moved on from LSU and joined the University of Illinois Chicago, where he is a tenured professor. The long and short of it is:
quote:The school raised this and a couple of other complaints when suspending Jason from teaching:
UIC suspended and launched an investigation into Kilborn after he posed a hypothetical question — which he has asked in previous years — using redacted references to two slurs, in a December 2020 law school exam. The question about employment discrimination referenced a plaintiff being called “a ‘n____’ and ‘b____’ (profane expressions for African Americans and women)” as evidence of discrimination.
quote:Kilborn is fighting back, with The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) filing suit on his behalf against UIC.
Kilborn reached a resolution with UIC in July, in which he agreed to alert the dean before responding to student complaints about racial issues and to audio-record his classes. Kilborn welcomed both of these stipulations in order to protect himself against spurious complaints, and had already decided to take those actions independently. As part of that resolution, Kilborn and UIC ultimately reached an understanding that Kilborn would not have to attend sensitivity training.
However, in November, under pressure from UIC’s Black Law Students Association and Jesse Jackson, UIC reneged on its agreement with Kilborn and is now requiring him to participate in months-long “training on classroom conversations that address racism” and compelling him to write reflection papers before he can return to the classroom. In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question
Like I said, Jason was far and away my best professor, and he was/is incredibly passionate. I remember talking to him out behind the Law Center when he went off on a tirade against the School and its administration. He clearly had zero fricks to give.
Any of you fellow lawyers from LSU take Jason or have more insight into this deal with the UIC?
ETA: LINK
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 8:29 pm
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Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:38 pm to FCP
quote:Can you say that?
UIC reneged
Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:39 pm to FCP
When my teen daughter was about 8 years old, we had a discussion about "bad words." I explained that words are neither good nor bad by themselves, but they can BECOME bad if you use them to attack or hurt another person, and the same word would not be "bad" if used in a constructive way.
My second-grader understood the distinction. Apparently, the administration at a major law school struggles to grasp the same concept.
My second-grader understood the distinction. Apparently, the administration at a major law school struggles to grasp the same concept.
quote:They had better still be paying him. To do otherwise would be n!ggardly in the extreme.
The school ... suspend(ed) Jason from teaching:
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:48 pm to FCP
This is pathetic. So are they complaining about the n word only?
Posted on 2/14/23 at 8:57 pm to FCP
He’s a top notch lawyer. His secured transactions book was very helpful to me in studying for the bar exam and learning security device law.
If this triggers the students, how can they litigate or defend an employment discrimination case?
If this triggers the students, how can they litigate or defend an employment discrimination case?
Posted on 2/14/23 at 9:03 pm to FCP
You happened to just stumble upon this because of your personal connection with the professor. Imagine how many, many other incidents like this have been discreetly playing out in the shadows.
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 2/14/23 at 9:21 pm to FCP
Kilborn is a liberal and part of his defense was that he could use the word on exams because he is so sympathetic to employment bias litigation.
I love it when liberals eat their own. Enjoy the fruits of your labor law Jason!
I love it when liberals eat their own. Enjoy the fruits of your labor law Jason!
Posted on 2/14/23 at 9:23 pm to Drizzt
Kilborn is going to be like that based professor from Evergreen State going forward. We may see him on Tucker’s show soon.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 9:27 pm to FCP
Wait, the words were redacted and posed in a relevant hypothetical?
WTF.
WTF.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 9:47 pm to FCP
I hope none of these students enter the actual practice of law. There are some ugly real life fact patterns to deal with, including lawsuits involving the use of bad, mean, nasty words that apparently cripple them.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 2:10 am to Havoc
quote:It gets better. Or worse, I guess:
Wait, the words were redacted and posed in a relevant hypothetical?WTF.
quote:The item above came from a private email sent to the student body by the administration and which was copied and posted online by Joseph Shen, a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). LINK
[Prof. Kilborn] [d]id violate the harassment aspect of the same Policy. This conclusion was not based on a single incident, but on his conduct considered in cumulative fashion and in context. The conduct included: (1) Using the word “cockroaches,” which was not directed to Black students, but in context, could have been perceived as directed towards racial minority plaintiffs; (2) Using the term “lynching,” although apologizing immediately for it; (3) Using African American Vernacular English [AVE] when referring to lyrics of an African American rapper; (4) Using racially charged language (the redacted terms “‘n____’ and ‘b____’…”) in an exam question;... and (5) Responding to concerns about the exam with insensitive, chastising, and arguably threatening comments in January 2021, including using the term “homicidal” during a four-hour Zoom meeting with a student.
The bizarre thing about this ordeal is that it was fully resolved. Jason agreed to the school's request that he record his lectures and to exercise restraint when addressing student grade disputes. Then, several months later, the administration heard complaints from minority groups and Jesse Jackson and chose to renege on the agreement. Now, in addition to the agreed steps, they demanded Jason attend a months-long sensitivity training class before being allowed to return to teaching.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:29 am to FCP
The pernicious power that the ego and envy-based butthurt whiners like the grifting Jesse Jackson now exert on rational reality and real Justice is reaching the ‘red line’ limits. Society is headed toward dysfunction and collapse, and the weak/*inferior* people who serve their envy-based delusion will be at the fore of the die off line. One would and could only believe this if able to witness irl. Would be interesting to hear Kilborn come on this Board and defend his beliefs in race-based egalitarianism. We’ll, not egalitarianism, but some deformed version of it. Lord have mercy.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:41 am to FCP
So a bunch of greedy assholes are going after another a-hole?
You lawyers are something else.
You lawyers are something else.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:47 am to FCP
quote:
under pressure from UIC’s Black Law Students Association and Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson said he was scared to run into young black men on a dark street corner. Maybe he needs to take a lap on deciding who is a racist.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:56 am to FCP
This is getting old
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:57 am to BengalOnTheBay
I’m not defending Jesse, but since when do we equate rational thought with racism?
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:58 am to FCP
I heard all the complaining students just got nominated to the federal bench by Biden.
Here's one of them:
Tell me about Article V How about Article II
Here's one of them:
Tell me about Article V How about Article II
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:11 am to FCP
Sounds like UIC are the reneggers here.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:33 am to Eli Goldfinger
Team Retardzana is pathetic
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:37 am to FCP
Wow, I used to think AA were a strong resilient group. Nahh, they are so fragile that words send them into fits of hysteria and wailing. Weak, very weak.
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