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The state-funded University of North Texas went after Prof. Timothy Jackson, and the case eventually involved TX Attorney General Ken Paxton and former state Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell. The case ended with a joint stipulation of dismissal, as Jackson agreed to accept a settlement of $725,000, according to Just the News. It is unfortunate that many academics these days are so obsessed with politics and race-baiting that they try to make everything about those topics, which is what Jackson found out, to his cost. In this case, Jackson reportedly claimed that an accusation of racism against his journal’s namesake was antisemitic. But leftist academia encourages antisemitism; that’s not considered racism or harmful prejudice. From Just the News: UNT kicked Jackson out of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, named after German music theorist Heinrich Schenker, and put it on ice for five years after Jackson published an issue responding to a black peer's claims that the Jewish Schenker was an "ardent racist." Jackson's critique in volume 12 said Hunter College professor Phillip Ewell peddled a "conspiracy theory" that is “part and parcel of the much broader current of Black anti-semitism." He also said musical tastes argued why few black people are music theorists, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle, which saw volume 12 before UNT pulled it. But with the new settlement, Jackson once more has control over his music theory journal and also has a reduced workload.

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