CHICAGO (JTA) — A university in Chicago has removed a faculty member from a course after a marketing assignment included a question on whether the Holocaust happened.
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National Louis University is investigating the incident, NBC Chicago reported.
The assignment was designed to spot bad survey questions and to fix them, according to Inside Higher Education.
The question on the assignment on double negatives asked: “Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?”
One of the assignment’s suggested corrections to the question was: “Do you doubt that the Holocaust actually happened or not?”
The university said in a statement: “Every day, we strive to create a community where everyone is empowered to live their full authentic selves. We are taking this incident seriously. We do not tolerate discrimination in any form and have a no retaliation policy for individuals who file claims of discrimination. We are currently investigating and will determine the appropriate course of action once our investigation is complete.”
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and author of “Denying the Holocaust” and “Antisemitism: Here and Now,” told Inside Higher Education that the first question appears to be the one that was asked in a 1992 Roper poll for the American Jewish Committee. Because of its poor wording, the poll indicated that there was a high number of Holocaust deniers. The reworded question turned up many few deniers in the poll two years later.
Lipstadt said using that question on an assignment today was not a “wise choice on the professor’s part.” The question seems to suggests that the issue “is open to debate, which it is not.”
There was a similar situation in a high school near Ft. Lauderdale, involving the Principal; that school had many Jewish students.
Years ago, that piece of garbage, Pat Buchanan, (who ran for President more than once) defended Nazi war criminals in the USA who were facing deportation. He was against the Office of Special Investigations, which investigated Nazis living in the USA. Last, he questioned the numbers of Jews killed in the Shoah.
The headline isn’t exactly correct. The professor wasn’t fired; he was taken off the course and is on leave til the end of the semester.
Was the ‘professor’ denying the Holocaust or was he coarsely using that triple negative survey question as an example of survey stupidity? Let’s take a poll…
The Holicaust was a planned demise of the Jews & Roma = genocide
The unplanned annual death of 300,000 Americans due to medical error is ongoing and is higher in immorality than the Shoa because it is now preventable
I believe that slavery never happened.
We also know that Yoshka never exists either.
The professor was showing the problem with a badly written actual poll from the early ’90s, this was misconstrued by ignorant activists.