Feminist Author Taught NYU Students To Start A Revolution, They Rebelled Against Her Class (Update)

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/09/17/feminist-author-taught-
nyu-students-start-revolution-rebelled-class/

The name Lauren Duca may not ring any bells at first. She’s a feminist
writer and social media warrior best known for calling Tucker Carlson a
“sexist pig” and also for a piece arguing that President Trump was
“gaslighting” America. Duca’s star has risen high enough in resistance
politics circles that this month she has a book out titled, “How to Start
a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics.”

Over the summer, Duca was also invited to teach a class called “The
Feminist Journalist” at NYU. Because Buzzfeed was doing a profile on Duca
for her upcoming book, reporter Scaachi Koul happened to be there on the
last day of the six-week class. It sounds as if Duca thought the class
went very well, but her students were not so happy. In fact, they made a
formal complaint to the J-school about Duca.

She asked her students to come prepared with questions for her for what
would be an AMA-style session in Washington Square Park. Her students sat
in a circle around her in the wet grass. It was, I imagine, exactly what
Tucker Carlson would envision a liberal journalism class might be: a bunch
of kids from varied backgrounds, ethnicities, orientations, and gender
identities, who could each afford a $6,500 class, wearing T-shirts that
said “GenderQueer” or “Kill Patriarchy.”

In the park, Duca praised her students for their ideas and pitches: “You
so totally learned what I was trying to teach you.” Nearly four weeks
after the course ended, however, her students sent a collective formal
complaint to the heads of the NYU journalism school about Duca’s conduct.
“We are disappointed at the department and NYU for hiring a professor with
more interest in promoting her book than teaching a group of students
eager to learn,” they wrote.

But the students didn’t just complain to the school. Because they knew
Koul, the Buzzfeed reporter, from her visit on the last day of class, many
of them reached out to her as well. Of the ten students that contacted
her, five agreed to speak on the record but only if they could be
anonymous. They were afraid of being targeted by Duca.

All five students alleged that Duca’s class was disorganized and “a master
class in Lauren Duca’s personal life.” (“The point of it is that I’m
oversharing all the time. And I think that, yeah, some people like it,
some people don’t. Apparently you fucking hate it, but that’s fine,” Duca
told me.) They said that she would vanish for 30 to 45 minutes per class
to “meditate.” (“It was a three-hour class and we took a break and I would
meditate for 15 minutes and they would be gone getting snacks and stuff,”
Duca responded.) And that the class was a “waste of six weeks for all of
us, and we don’t want anyone else to make this mistake again.” They claim
Duca would snap at them for small problems, accuse them of not having done
the readings, and never actually read any of the assignments they
submitted to her.

But what really set the students off was Duca’s treatment of a foreign
student who didn’t speak English very well. The other students say Duca
singled out this student for criticism and abuse, even making her cry once
in front of the whole class. Asked about all of this by Buzzfeed’s Koul,
Duca said, “It’s okay if I’m not a great teacher because I’m great at lots
of other things.” But when pressed, Duca tried to make herself some kind
of feminist victim:

As I continued asking Duca for comment about the specifics of the
complaint, she became more and more agitated. “You should put in there
that my tone was expressly pissed off and frustrated,” Duca told me.
“You’re being so f**king hard on me, Scaachi, and I really, really,
really, really would ask you if you would be grilling a man in this same
way. It’s amazing. The shit that I have endured to continue to sustain a
voice where I’m just fighting every inch for the same thing that I think
that you want, which is public power and equality, and I’m trying my
goddamn best, okay?”

Hey, it’s okay with me, but then I didn’t shell out $6,500 to take her
class. But you have to appreciate the humor in having a Twitter-famous
resistance personality write a book about young people starting a
revolution only to have those young revolutionaries come for her first.
One student told Buzzfeed, “In a way, she is that ‘worst idea’ that
conservatives think liberals are.” Duca should probably put that one in
her Twitter bio.

Update: I remember reading this story about Duca months ago. Duca
allegedly sent harassing messages to co-workers at HuffPost and then
claimed she had been spoofed by whoever was sending the messages:

According to accounts we’ve heard from 10 of her former co-workers, all of
whom insisted on anonymity because they continue to work in mediaand
wanted to be able to freely discuss a sensitive work situation and because
they were concerned about professional repercussions, Duca left the
company in November 2015. Her departure came after an internal
investigation found reason to believe that she’d sent several
inappropriate emails to and about her coworkers—and herself—from what was
meant to be an anonymous account, many said to be in the space of one
disastrous night in October. One email apparently referred to a male
writer as a “bald freak.” Duca was referred to as a “feminazi.” The very
first—and most damaging—referred to a Huffington Post writer as an
“overweight fake blonde.”

Anyway, it’s one of the best I-didn’t-do-it-stories since time-traveling
hackers added all of those homophobic comments to Joy Reid’s blog.



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