Now even individual letters to avoid saying the entire offensive word are verboten.

 According to the Cook County Record:

A law professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago has fought back against a perceived attempt by university leadership, at the behest of certain allegedly offended students, to allegedly humiliate the professor into accepting punishments, including suspensions, denial of a pay raise and required diversity training, over his use of example redacted racial epithets in an exam question dealing with the law and racial discrimination….

According to the complaint, Kilborn, on the exam, had asked students to analyze a piece of evidence, an account from a former manager that the manager had “quit her job at Employer after she attended a meeting in which other managers expressed their anger at Plaintiff, calling her a ‘n —-’ and ‘b —-’ (profane expressions for African Americans and women) and vowed to get rid of her.”

So, these law students were supposed to analyze a case without knowing exactly what the plaintiff was allegedly?

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