When UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan ended his legal-process class on Feb. 15, there was no sign that he had offended anyone. There were no questions or complaints, and no one approached him afterward.
Yet offend he did, during a discussion about conflicts between culture and the legal system in which he used Hmong immigrants as an example.
A few days later, third-year law student KaShia Moua sent an e-mail citing four â??incredibly offensive and racistâ? remarks she said Kaplan had made during a â??10-minute rant about the Hmong.â? Among them: â??Hmong men have no skills other than killingâ? and â??All second-generation Hmong end up in gangs and other criminal activity.â?