Social worker sues Massachusetts university after she was asked to 'defend her WHITENESS' during int

[Elderberry]

By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com 3/10/2022

Social worker sues Massachusetts university after she was asked to 'defend her WHITENESS' during interview for professorship she didn't get

•  Donna Johnston, 54, alleges her 'whiteness' cost her a job at the university
•  Johnston, a therapist in Plainfield, Connecticut, filed the race and employment discrimination suit in Massachusetts Superior Court last week
•  Johnston details in the suit the series of jarring questions about her 'whiteness' by an unnamed associate professor who has since left the school
•  The school says that Johnston 'lacked expertise and live classroom experience and failed to present herself as student focused' in the interview

A licensed social worker who unsuccessfully applied for a professorship at Bridgewater State University last summer has sued the college, after she was allegedly asked to defend her 'whiteness' during an interview. 

Donna Johnston, a therapist in Plainfield, Connecticut, filed the race and employment discrimination suit in Massachusetts Superior Court last week, claiming she was subject to a racist interview when she applied for an assistant professorship position at the state-run school's social work department in June.

Johnston, who did not get the job, says that she was asked a series of jarring questions about her 'whiteness' during the interview, presided over by an associate professor who has since left the university.

Johnston, 54, says she was asked to contemplate her 'white privilege' and 'defend her whiteness' by the staffer, and says she was told that 'black students may not be able to relate to you because of your white privilege,' according to the suit - which demands a jury trial and $50,000 in damages.

According to the school, Johnston’s answer - which saw her acknowledge her white privilege to the interviewer, the filing says - 'missed the target.'

The social worker, meanwhile, attests that her qualifications exceeded those of three female applicants the School of Social Work ended up hiring in the weeks after her interview.

More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10598439/Social-worker-SUES-university-asked-defend-whiteness-interview.html

[GtHawk]

Only suing for 50k? She needs to make them hurt a lot more than that!

[goatprairie]

It appears the locusts have infested many areas of America with their SJ garbage. The places they've infested must be deloused.

[Kamaji]

Only suing for 50k? She needs to make them hurt a lot more than that!

Agreed.

[verga]

 

[Fishrrman]

Memo to Ms. Johnston:

Push to win the case, and take the money.
But DON'T take a job at that "university".
It would most likely prove to be very unfulfilling.
Seek employment elsewhere.

[mikezpen]

If black students can't relate to a white, why should white students have to relate to a black professor. Maybe his/her blackness" is too intimidating or unfriendly for learning to take place.

[mountaineer]

A friend of ours taught social work at a local small state university. She has an impressive resume and even spent time at ground zero in NYC immediately after the 9/11 attack, counseling victims and responders - and has the health-related issues to show for it.

She said the leftist politics in academic social work departments is incredible. She is Jewish and somewhat conservative, and was regularly denied advancement or any role whatsoever in the department. In other words, pretty much treated as a pariah.

[DefiantMassRINO]

In the university's defense, she's almost as white as albino Wonder Bread.
When's the last time she was exposed to sunlight?


Faculty applicant sues Bridgewater State, saying she was asked to defend her ‘whiteness’
By Tonya Alanez Globe Staff,Updated March 9, 2022, 2:44 p.m.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/09/metro/faculty-applicant-sues-bridgewater-state-saying-she-was-asked-defend-her-whiteness/

... if it's in the Boston Globe, it could be true, unless if what written by Mike Barnacle.  Mike Barnacle is a ficticious persona created by Mike Barnacle to write ficticious articles in a ficticious column for a fictious newspaper in the same ficticious reality where Kamala Harris has achieved anything.