LONDON (JNS) – An engineering lecturer in the United Kingdom has been fired for making racial remarks, including saying Jews “are the cleverest people in the world” and had “a particular gift” for physics.
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An employment tribunal this week heard that Stephen Lamonby, 73, of Solent University in Southampton, made the remarks during a meeting last year with course leader Janet Bonar, who is Jewish and took offense when, in response to mentioning that she had a degree in physics, Lamonby asked if she was Jewish.
In self-defense, he told her: “I believe that the Jewish are the cleverest people in the world. They are much maligned because of it.”
At the tribunal, Lamonby said he was “excited to think she might be one of them—excited to meet a Jewish physicist, who had been my heroes since boyhood.” He also noted that Germans, too, were “good at engineering,” as were the Japanese and Americans.
During his meeting with Bonar, Lamonby apparently also said that he had a “soft spot” for young black men, as they are “underprivileged and many without fathers,” so they “need all the help they can get.”
She told the tribunal she was “concerned about our students being taught by someone with his entrenched racist views.”
Lamonby told The Daily Mail that he would appeal his termination from the university, where he had worked part-time for six years.
He blamed “woke” culture, adding that today “you can’t make any comments [in universities] now because they are totally obsessed with racism and to talk about Jews in the context of racism is crazy because they are not even a race, they are an ethnicity.”
In the end, he deduced, “I think the judgment came down to the fact the judge was a woke judge.”
More cancel culture idiocy, how about we fire the actual Jew haters who promote BDS and call for the destruction of Israel?
A little common sense please?
How in the world was that a racist statement? I think the corono virus has another side effect. It makes liberal leftists go totally insane.
world is getting crazier. To tell the truth is racist!
And the blacks are the dumbest people in the world. There i said it. Call me a racist
This lecturer was complimenting us; I certainly don’t take offense at his comments, and he should be reinstated.
this is crazy !!!!!! all he did was say a true fact . It would like me saying : all blacks are the darkest people in the world .
why is it when someone says the TRUTH it is considered racist?
He happens to be right, and also did nothing wrong. This is lunacy.
Jews are not a race. There are Jews of all races. Jews are simply a religion.
Read article: The course leader Janet Bonar, who is Jewish and took offense. SHE has a problem with someone pointing out to her that she is special because she is Jewish. SHE complained because she has a chip on her shoulder. And he got fired. The story isn’t so much that he got fired, but that she took offense that someone mentioned that she is Jewish and attributed her success to her being Jewish.
That statement as reported was meant to be positive. To call that racist is mind boggling! If Janet Bonar took offense to that she needs psychiatric help as she must be a paranoid schizophrenic.
bbc web site reports on the statements made by the judge:
> Mr Lamonby’s comments about young black males needing extra help were “discriminatory”
In the U.S. the entire (so-called) “progressive” movement is based exactly on the premise that blacks need extra privileges (allegedly because of historic grievances) – and that anyone who disagrees is purely racist. So according to the “progressives” in the U.S. this judge is racist, and according to the judge the “progressives” in the U.S. are “discriminatory” (and should all be fired).
That Janet Bonar, whoever she is, took “offense” at his remark is stupid enough, but what can you expect from mentally sick liberals? But for the professor to be fired for these remarks is crossing all lines. These liberal “fighters for peoples’ rights” are in reality ruining peoples’lives.
There was nothing racist about his statement, only complimentary I don’t see the issue.
Wait till all the Trump Jew hating slurs come out. The excuses for him will be hilarious.
Every day another article about yet another goy fired and their life destroyed for offending the ruling ethnicity (Don’t you dare imply they control anything or they will destroy you). This will backfire bigtime, a massive backlash is in the works, don’t say I didn’t warn you, I say this as a friend.
(Attributed to Voltaire): “To find who rules over you, see who you are not allowed to criticize.”
This is my last comment here, Shalom.
all you have to look at the international awards in medicine and physics and see how many jews have won Nobel awards
This is what happens when JINO leftists who hate the fact that they are Jewish take offence when someone compliments them if that compliment has to do with the identity they wish they didn’t have.
Vile filthy Left-wingnut haters of everything good, including anything to do with truth.