Purdue President refers to Black Scholars as ‘Creatures’

This is not racist! "Rare creature" is a common phrase used to describe something uncommon.

What is clear from other threads is that the OP is racist and I don't know how they haven't been banned yet.

You are joking of course aren't you? The OP just has a different point of view to you. Why does that mean he should be banned anymore than you should be? Give us an example of how it is "clear from other threads is that the OP is racist". Are you saying that people should be banned for saying that someone is racist? If so, then why shouldn't you be banned as well?

I meant the context of his speech, not the context of US race politics. Let's say I was talking to a friend at work and I said this,

"Do you notice how CEOs are always white males? We really need more diversity at the top. Yesterday I saw that rarest of creatures, a black man in a top level management position."

Would I be racist if I said this?

I have no such agenda. I have read the article and his words were:

I’ll be recruiting one of the rarest creatures in America – a leading, I mean a really leading, African-American scholar

He is saying that leading black scholars are extremely rare, and that he will be recruiting one. He is not saying they are deservedly rare. He is not saying they do not have the ability. He is simply reflecting reality. They are rare.

Of course, if there is no room in your bubble for knowledge of reality then so be it.

Thank goodness we are not in the USA if black people there pursue a corrosive vendetta against white people based on perfectly ordinary and innocent word usage, all the while using language that they seek to ban whites from using at all. It is barmy. Let us hope it does not travel the Atlantic to any significance.

On three occasions I have reported their thread content/titles for being racist and the moderators have agreed and made edits. For example, the title of this thread used to say before it was edited by the mods, "Black Alabama Sheriff Killed By White Teen" even though there was no evidence that race was the motive of the crime. I hope you agree that this is racist just like it would be racist to make a thread saying, "White Alabama Sheriff Killed By Black Teen".

To be clear, I'm not saying there's any evidence of racism from them in this thread.

The OP has a lot of issues and is clearly racist. All they do is post inflammatory threads about race and they should have been banned a long time ago.

I spend too much time thinking 'are we allowed to say that' now.

To begin with, that is not the context he said that in - he was specifically addressing a room full of people applying for the scholarship. If you addressed a room full of black business graduates and said then yes, it would be racist, and you would be contributing to the systemic barriers which discourage and prevent black people from going on to that role (or in the case of Purdue, from applying to that college/scholarship).

Even in your context (which as above, is a context which completely straw-mans the original issue by the change of context) it would be at best extremely ignorant and in poor taste to use a) that phrasing and b) to focus rather on the fact that white men are over-represented and afforded far more opportunities, than to shift it onto the fact that not enough black people move into top level management positions - which implicitly places the hypothetical black people who aren't in top level management positions into a place where the other person will be asking "well why aren't they getting themselves into those positions" rather than "why and how are they being prevented by white men from moving into those positions".

I spend no time worrying about whether something can be said. I take the view that I am reasonable and say reasonable things in a reasonable (though blunt) way. Anyone taking offence is, therefore, doing so solely to make trouble.

I experience racism against myself all the time and what makes things worse are those who attribute the most minor comment to racism.

So I'm the bad person who automatically assumed you were White British.

Why did I do that?

Because you are a dirty racist. You need to go to racism school

Because you are a dirty racist. You need to go to racism school.

Is that where you learn to be more racist?

I am actually White British so it turns out you are not a racist. Congratulations

That's Oxford, isn't it?

So why did you write that 'I experience racism against myself all the time'? Do you live in a black commune?

I wish. No, I'm Jewish and I receive abuse on other social media (and IRL) when I attack antisemitism and other forms of racism.