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University attacks student for reading this book
Rights organization challenges officials to prove claim or shut up

The original story was posted at SAB about a man reading a book with KKK in the title that, was in fact a story about a defeat for the KKK, wherein black students then filed a complaint just for seeing him read the book and university charges were filed of racism against this man.

The school, “Indiana University-Purdue University,” then backed off because it appeared that the man was reading a book from their own library and people were upset that this was an attack on the freedom of everyone to read offensive materials, in other words, censorship. So, case closed right, the book was not in support of the KKK, merely reading the book could not be considered racism or hate speech or an attempt to make others feel uncomfortable, as if that should be a crime anyway. Thank God, case closed or was it?

A student at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis who first faced discipline when officials caught him reading a history book that was available in the school library during a break at work was cleared of those charges, but now officials say he is guilty of something but they won’t say what.

“This looks like a classic example of a college making things worse in an unprincipled attempt to save face,” Shibley said. “IUPUI’s own letters to Sampson made clear that his reading a book about the Ku Klux Klan was the problem, and the university claims to have completely exonerated him of all charges. If so, why are its spokespeople now telling The Wall Street Journal that the problem was really some other mysterious conduct that the university will not reveal to anyone, including Sampson himself?”

A person commenting here at SAB has often been upset about any attacks on our educational system, any charges of liberalism and partisan political activities in every segment of academia; and I expect will now defend this university of condemning a university stident, cuasing harm to his academic career, all absent any specific charges, just because they simply think he is guilty of something.

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