ThoughtCrime: 02/12/94
College Professor Faced With Bias Charge
A professor of sociology is facing a bias charge for taking
issue with a work of fiction. Clyde Magarelli, a professor at William Patterson
College disagreed with the premise of Steven Spielberg's film, Schindler's
List. Professor Magarelli told his class that more Jews were killed
in factories run by Nazi industrialists than in concentration camps. Spielberg's
film was based on a novel by author Thomas Keneally.
One of Professor Magarelli's students, Paul Krassen, of Huntington Valley,
Pa., who is Jewish, filed a bias complaint with the college against the
professor for his comments.
Professor Clyde Magarelli has recounted that he was merely taking issue
with the film Schindler's List and its portrayal of how Oskar
Schindler, a Nazi industrialist, saved more than 1,000 of his Jewish workers
from the Holocaust.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
George Orwell
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