Ethical question

[IndigoChild5559]

Johns Hopkins teaching assistant who mooted flunking ‘Zionists’ defends record

Comments ? What do you think of this TA ? Do you think her grading was fair ?

Anyone who thinks being a zionist means I'm for their ethnic cleansing is just an antisemite.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

It does, but I'm just going by what my experience shows me. To say such a thing on Twitter and to even think of asking such a question to oneself, let alone in public, also gives me pause. She didn't do anything, but she has beliefs that apparently conflict with her career, so much so that she thought about doing this and aired her views publicly. As a teaching assistant if I did that, I'd be out the door without a question and it'd be very hard for me to find any work again.

I'd add to this:

• The fact that she put up a survey, and then used that as evidence to back up the idea that students shouldn't be graded based on their actual academic prowess
• The fact that she commented directly on the idea that the discussion "could get her fired" - but using a tone that indicated that the only reason she wasn't taking her comments further (full agreement and support of not grading fairly) was because of that possibility.

This isn't the work of a mind functioning in an objective, even-keel manner. Not in the slightest. I'd be forced to question her very intellectual and emotional capacity based on just this. And I don't have a horse in any of the political/social/religious/ethnic races involved.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Johns Hopkins teaching assistant who mooted flunking ‘Zionists’ defends record

Comments ? What do you think of this TA ? Do you think her grading was fair ?

Let's change the scenario, and see if it sounds fair:

"Johns Hopkins teaching assistant who mooted flunking Muslims defends record."

("Zionists" is generally another term to say "Jew" without sounding anti-Semitic.)

In the spirit of full disclosure, here's what she actually wrote:

“Ethical dilemma: if you have to grade a zionist students exam, do you still give them all their points even though they support your ethnic cleansing?” she wrote. “Like idk [I don’t know]”

She should be fired, immediately. Her attitude is despicable. And it calls into question her claims of "integrity."

Does it sound fair, now?