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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
(5,721 posts)Bet he knows all sorts of vile slurs that used to be commonly used words!
"Paid leave." Fuck that noise.
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)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
(6,042 posts)I never heard either of these as a child or the third example he gave .
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)Igel
(35,274 posts)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
(31,106 posts)But Hillary gave a speech once
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I can't think of any reason to mention that. Looks like an excuse to say what is on his mind.
Mike Nelson
(9,944 posts)... 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.