A 72-year-old human rights professor at George Washington University is fuming after being fired from his course over talks about the N-word.
Professor Michael Stoil, a former CIA analyst, found himself in trouble with the university after students filed three racial bias reports against him for
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He was asked to step down from his human rights course and was allowed to stay on as a tenured professor — but he’s resigning from both positions.
Stoil reportedly used the N-word uncensored during a phone chat with an unnamed vice provost.
Recounting the conversation with students, he used the same word while telling the anecdote.
“My conversation with the vice provost addressed this,” Stoil said, according to the Daily Mail. “My mother, who is white, was shocked when her best friend — an African-American woman from Detroit — referred to her as a (‘silly N-word’) 45 years ago.”
He added: “I was explaining my commitment, and that of my family, to opposition to ethnic slurs, even when in this case it was voiced as a colloquialism by an African-American woman.”
He went on to say that academia was now too woke.
“I also suspect that my age and years of teaching in truly multiethnic institutions have made me too divorced from current cultural norms in the U.S. to teach such a sensitive topic as human rights,” Stoil said.
