<p>After the death of George Floyd in May 2020 by a cop who has since been convicted of murder, students across the country began seeking out professors who didn’t share their specific views and trying to get them fired or punished, part of what’s known as “cancel culture.”</p>
<p>“In the weeks and months after the death of George Floyd a vicious and malicious cancel culture purge swept academia, with professors who expressed views not in complete sync with radical campus opinion being subjected to firings and attempted firings, harassment and intimidation, and defamation,” <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/ucla-prof-gordon-klein-sues-after-suspension-and-smears-for-refusing-preferential-exam-treatment-for-black-students/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=6d77d0f6-ae1c-4ad4-af51-4d05b4deceaf">wrote</a> William A. Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law, who has been the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cornell-students-now-boycotting-course-taught-by-law-professor-critical-of-black-lives-matter-tactics">attempted victim</a> of cancel culture himself.</p>
<p>In June 2020, not long after Floyd’s death, a group of students sent an email to UCLA accounting professor Gordon Klein, asking him to institute a “‘no-harm’ final exam that could only benefit students’ grades, and for shortened exams and extended deadlines for final assignments and projects,” Inside Higher Ed <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/04/professor-resigns-after-criticizing-protesters-and-another-faces-calls-his">reported</a>.</p>
<p>As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucla-students-want-two-professors-fired-because-they-didnt-accommodate-student-feelings">reported</a>, the students requested all of these accommodations due to recent “traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter.”</p>
<p>“We believe that remaining neutral in times of injustice brings power to the oppressor and therefore staying silent is not an option,” the students added.</p>
<p>The students insisted they did not make the request as “a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-black students” but rather to “ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with black students in our major.”</p>
<p>The students were using the May 25 death of Floyd and the resulting riots across the country to get leniency in class. Professor Klein did not accept their arguments and responded in an email that gained him the ire of students.</p>
<p>“Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,” Klein wrote back to the students.</p>
<p>“Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?” he asked them. “How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only?”</p>
<p>Klein went on to ask about students who “may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian?”</p>
<p>“What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?” he asked.</p>
<p>Klein also suggested “a white student from [Minneapolis] might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not. My TA is from Minneapolis, so if you don’t know, I can probably ask her.”</p>
<p>Klein ended his email with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. about not evaluating people based on the color of their skin.</p>
<p>Klein was eventually suspended and denounced by UCLA. It later reinstated him, but as Jacobson noted, “not before his reputation and career were severely damaged.”</p>
<p>Klein is now suing, alleging he was punished for treating students equally, as required by California law. He also alleges that UCLA’s Anderson School of Management disregarded a broader UCLA directive <em>not</em> to punish him over student complaints. Klein also alleged that the incident caused him to lose clients where he was paid to be an expert witness.</p>
<p>Klein wrote that he “brings this action not only to redress the wrongful conduct he has endured but also to protect academic freedom.”</p>

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