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.
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