USC Professor Placed on Leave After Some Complained His Using of a Chinese Word (nationalreview.com)

This news report contains a short recording of the questioned lecture. His pronunciation is actually not that off.

The academic world has gone mad.

The complaining students are factually wrong when they say: "The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables". It isn't. I heard it countless times when I lived in China.

This is just stupid.