By Premiere Networks
May 14, 2021
TODD: So it s quite likely that the. Well, I don t know if it s quite. It s likely. But the Supreme Court s gonna hear a case on the most offensive word, and this would be ground on which, I would hope, we d not tread. But they re trying to discover, as John Roberts court sometimes does, just brand-new aspects of the Constitution that no one s ever seen. It s the magic Roberts asterisk.
I hope that doesn t happen.
They re trying to figure out if having a really offensive word for instance, the N-word or a slur/racial slur scrawled onto the wall of an employer is grounds for employees to sue for hostile work environment. And one would assume that if someone scrawled something on the wall that it was left there for months, that is a different issue than if someone so-called something on the wall that was left there until, well, someone reported it; it was taken down.
Hannah Berliner Fischthal, an adjunct professor at St. John s University, was fired two and a half months after an incident during a remote class where she read an excerpt from Pudd nhead Wilson.
In a twist worthy of Mark Twain himself, a St. John’s University professor has been fired for reading a passage containing the N-word from Twain’s anti-slavery novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” in her “Literature of Satire” class.
The White House on Thursday announced the nomination of Catherine Lhamon to serve as an assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education, the same job she held in the Obama era when she pushed the #MeToo agenda on college campuses.