For several months a professor at CSULB, Kevin MacDonald, has been under the spotlight by several of the departments; some have even issued statements disassociating themselves with MacDonald, according to the Daily 49er. MacDonald has written a three-part series in evolutionary psychology that has been labelled as anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi by civil rights organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC actually sent a representative to CSULB in November 2006 to get student and faculty input. According to the Daily 49er,
"MacDonald confirmed publishing his claims that the Jewish race was having a negative effect on Western civilization in 'The Culture of Critique.'"
Ronald Loewe, a professor of anthropology, recently wrote in a department wide e-mail that several departments are deciding on whether or not to write official statements disassociating themselves with MacDonald's allegedly racist teaching tactics.
President F. King Alexander has not responded to CSULB faculty in disassociating himself with MacDonald, but did say to “make sure that we are aspiring to promote true scientific progress and to aggressively challenge all individuals inside and outside of the academy that advance agendas that are premised on inequality, separation, human rights denial and abuses,” according to the preliminary Jewish studies statement sent via e-mail by Jeffrey Blutinger, co-director of the Jewish Studies Program, in response to MacDonald's controversial teachings and writings.
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Er, not that I mean to be a downer, but isn't this prime libel material? Textbook example: it's okay to call a professor's ideas racist garbage, but not to call the professor racist him/herself. Even the Daily 49er uses the term "allgedly racist" so as not portray it as fact.
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