This is Penn State sociology professor, Sam Richards teaching Sociology 119. Inequality in hiring practices is fact and should be addressed. Subconscious biases are a reality and should be addressed. It is fine for a prof to call out a student for being unprepared but it is fundamentally wrong and un-American to humiliate a student for an immutable characteristic and to convict him and everyone who looks like him of crimes by virtue of that immutable characteristic. That is exactly what we used to call prejudice and racism.
Here is a classic case of ritual, public humiliation. The agitators behind the Cultural Revolution (in China, 1966–1776) would be proud.
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R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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