08-23-2023, 10:11 PM
I think it sounds like hypocritical whining because you expect student audience members to be better behaved than the speaker they pepped with questions.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023...ition.html
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/07/stanford...le-duncan/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...839426.php
In contrast, I actually have a very specific memory of Professor Martinez who was asked a very silly and ideologically charged question by an undergraduate student auditing her lecture one day. But instead of calling that student an "appalling idiot," Professor Martinez calmly and professionally explained that an equal application of a discriminatory law did not magically make that law non-discriminatory.
If anything, I wish that version of Professor Martinez had been in charge all those years later. She might not have given in to the disingenuous media portrayal so many of you have eaten up about this "fiasco."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023...ition.html
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/07/stanford...le-duncan/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...839426.php
In contrast, I actually have a very specific memory of Professor Martinez who was asked a very silly and ideologically charged question by an undergraduate student auditing her lecture one day. But instead of calling that student an "appalling idiot," Professor Martinez calmly and professionally explained that an equal application of a discriminatory law did not magically make that law non-discriminatory.
If anything, I wish that version of Professor Martinez had been in charge all those years later. She might not have given in to the disingenuous media portrayal so many of you have eaten up about this "fiasco."

