Human Rights Watch fires general counsel after she used N-word in classroom lecture
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Human Rights Watch fired its general counsel earlier this month after she used the N-word in an April 1 Zoom lecture on hate speech as an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
The Columbia Spectator, the university’s student newspaper, broke the story, while Law.com also has a report.
Dinah PoKempner, who is white, used the N-word 11 times as she related an anecdote “while laughing and switching between voices,” the Columbia Spectator reported.
PoKempner told the Columbia Spectator in a statement that the anecdote was intended to help her students conceptualize the prosecution of a European journalist for an interview with racists.