How is this different from "McCarthyism" OR Looks whose PC Culture cam back to bite him in the ass
Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in
class
A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the
names of two black students in class, according to a report.
Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer
Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his
Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being
asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and
inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.
“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused
that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29
article in the Fordham Observer. “I have done my best to validate and reassure
the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do
with race.”
He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two
students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s
work.
Several students said Trogan’s bizarre overreaction, rather than
making a simple apology, made matters worse for him.
The email was “a little excessive,” one of the two black
students, freshman Chantal Sims, told the Observer. “We were not actually that
upset about him mixing up our names. It was more so the random things he would
throw into the response.”
In the email, he urged any students upset by the incident to
complain to the school. “Depending on your response to the officials above, I
may — or may not — be your professor in class next week. It’s all up to you,”
he wrote.
Sims told the paper Trogan’s email stressed “everything he has
done for minorities.”
He was fired Oct. 29, the paper reported.
“Trogan was a nice teacher for the 5 classes that I had him for,
but he never attempted to get to know me personally (in a 14 person class),”
wrote one newspaper commenter who claimed to be in the Composition II class. “I
don’t think he deserved to get fired, but his response to a small issue was
what blew the entire thing up.”
Fordham spokesman Bob Howe told The Post the school “takes
personnel matters very seriously,” but claimed “media representations regarding
this issue do not reflect the facts in Dr. Trogan’s case.” He refused to
elaborate.
Trogan was a popular instructor, according to dozens of reviews
on Rate My Professor.
“He doesn’t quite let on how much he knows and what he’s
accomplished, but he is quite brilliant but humble and not stuck up,” a former
student wrote.
Neither Trogan, his union nor Sims returned messages. The second
student, who has remained anonymous, declined to comment to The Post through an
intermediary.
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