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Used letters “N” and “B” on exam hypo about employment discrimination, leading to campaign to fire him. The FIRE notes: “In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials [UIC tried to force on Kilborn] include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question.”
Jason Kilborn is a law professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago Law School. In late December 2021, I wrote a detailed report about The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Of Prof. Jason Kilborn by U. Illinois-Chicago John Marshall Law School:
Not all of academia is mean-spirited, vindictive, and vicious. But enough of it is that the term “cancel culture” — a concept most associated with campuses — has penetrated the broader culture. The University of Illinois-Chicago John Marshall School of Law is a prime example of all of the above pathologies, an institution that is psychologically torturing a professor just because it thinks it can.
Each incident of higher ed abuse is unique, and the treatment of Kilborn involved uniquely vindictive, malicious, and cruel conduct by students and administrators. Please read my prior post for the gory details. The short version is that Prof. Kilborn used the “n” and “b” words on an exam as part of a hypothetical about employment discrimination. Not the words themselves, but literally the letters “n” and “b”, something he had done for years.
