Ridiculous nonsense to couch this as racist, and the knee jerk censorship of these institutions is encouraging the nutters to shutdown more speech they don't agree with.
> I believe Professor Gunter’s YouTube video uses data misleadingly, though the real source of the visceral reaction many students have had to his arguments probably comes from his language and rhetoric.
> If his first slide had said “U.S. Census Data Suggests Poverty Rates are Declining for Black Americans,” instead of “Poverty is Not a Matter of Race,” frankly, I doubt we would even be talking about this. So the first takeaway is: how you frame arguments and the language you use matters.
Criticism is one thing, but once you start calling someone a racist then you're no longer interested in changing their mind. It's not a reasoned argument, it's an emotional one. The only thing it can be used for is firing up a mob or destroying a career.
So, what's your reasoned argument, and what was your goal in making such an incorrect blanket statement?
The article says only that 'some students' called him racist. How do you infer that that means the large majority of those who criticize him are doing so for groupthink reasons?
