There were plenty of loony liberal responses to the massacre in Las Vegas last month, but Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher took the cake with his Twitter rant against “whiteness.” This wasn’t Ciccariello’s first time around the block when it comes to these kinds of racial theories – he has been in the spotlight before for tweeting stuff like, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.” But this time, Ciccariello – who is, of course, white himself – went a little too far for his employers and got himself placed on administrative leave for his social media tomfoolery.
“A white man,” a he tweeted shortly after the shooting. “Yesterday was a morbid symptom of what happens when those who believe they deserve to own the world also think it is being stolen from them.
“It is the spinal column of Trumpism, and most extreme form is the white genocide myth,” he continued. “The narrative of white victimization has been gradually built over the past 40 years. White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything. This is what happens when they don’t get what they want.”
Since we still have no real idea what motivated the Las Vegas shooter at this late date, this walking parody of leftist culture certainly had no clue in early October. But that didn’t stop him from using the 50+ deaths as a way for him to spread his poisonous, racist views all over Twitter. After his rants caused a predictable backlash from people who have their heads screwed on right, he took to the pages of the Washington Post to play victim.
“As a scholar and teacher, giving context and depth to contemporary debates is an important part of what I do, and it’s a calling I take seriously,” he wrote. “But more and more, professors like me are being targeted by a coordinated right-wing campaign to undermine our academic freedom — one that relies on misrepresentation and sometimes outright lying, and often puts us and our students in danger.”
Well, no, it is your radical form of white guilt that is putting your students in danger – danger of getting so confused about the world that they graduate with no clue as to which way is up. But thankfully, Drexel University decided that your brainwashing nonsense was unfit for the classroom and forced you to take a leave of absence.
Naturally, this has brought all the libtard academics out of the woodwork. This week, dozens of Cornell University staffers signed a pledge of support for Ciccariello, saying that Drexel was wrong to keep him out of the classroom.
“Drexel’s failure to protect this freedom sets a dangerous precedent for scholars and students everywhere,” said Alexander Livingston, a professor of government at Cornell.
Drexel does have an obligation to protect free speech, but they also have an obligation to make sure their students are being taught by people who have full control over their mental and psychological faculties. Given Ciccariello-Maher’s bizarre, divisive, and unhinged social media screeds, it’s not at all evident that he fits the bill.
Poster Comment:
Bat-shit crazy leftist professors are allowed to run loose on campuses and classrooms spreading their insanity to gullible youth.
This idiot has confused freedom of speech with a license to say whatever you want in any setting, no matter how outrageous, clearly false, inflammatory, truly offensive or irresponsible with no repercussions whatsoever. They don't seem to understand that they are free to say what they like, but others also have the freedom to react to it and point out their idiocy. And institutions are free to suspend them, and perhaps suggest psychiatric intervention, when they make absolute fools of themselves, in order to avoid being associated with such foolishness.
So instead of attempting to explain their point of view or make a cognizant argument in its favor, because they generally cannot intelligently defend their nonsense they simply accuse anyone who dares question their idiocy of whatever ism or phobia. We clearly see this in the junk science that the left now calls Climate Change.
#1: Pinguinite To: IbJensen (#0)
I had a landlord once, a full-blown professor of something so I though I was dealing with an impressively smart guy. But when it came time to solve some problems, he demonstrated he had about no practical knowledge of how to take care of the house I was renting. He was totally clueless suggesting using auto brake fluid as a sliding door lubricant and was unaware they have wheels in them which were completely shot.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-11-13 12:07:43 Reply Private Reply
#2: Liberator To: IbJensen (#0)
This War on Whitey will back-fire spectacularly. If not already.
This frontal war being waged is actually more specifically, a War on White Straight Conservative MEN and Traditional American Values and the VERY White American Founders.
Spearheading this culture war are, ironically, are liberal-Marxist WHITE progressive professors within a rotted-out counterfeit Academe.
NOT ironically, the captains of this insanity are comprised of an alliance of Lesbian Feminists, Queer pseudo-men (with hyphenated last names like "Ciccariello-Maher"), Antifa, and rabid pro-abortionists and homofascists.
Let's not forget to give "credit" where credit is due: On the former Divider-in-Chief," Barry O'Bathhouse, his "wife" Michael, and BOTH corrupt, Global-Firster -- the Democrat-Marxist Party and it's ideological cousin, the NWO McCain-Bush wing of the GOP.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-13 12:15:35 Reply Private Reply
#3: Liberator To: IbJensen (#0)
Be encouraged; What used to be more of a long-range slow lobster boil PsyOp that was working well is now forced in the open prematurely. THEY ARE EXPOSED.
Donald Trump's unexpected election has forced many an error of an Establishment that could take its time in indoctrinating our youth and perverting our culture through schooling, sports and "entertainment." Yes, Junk Science is also being exposed as are many of the Leftist Academe's lying indoctrination.
Those "gullible youth" aren't as stupid and gullible as we might think. They now know exactly what's going on and do NOT like being targeted or censored.
We are fully engaged in a Culture War, ostensibly Civil War 2. The good news: YUGE difference between having an 0bama-Clinton DoJ and operatives working behind the scene and Trump. The Left no longer has cover or shielding from their targeted hate, bigotry and fascism.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-13 12:26:03 Reply Private Reply
#4: Liberator To: Pinguinite (#1)
True. The academic world represents the Leftist Utopian Ideal and it's "potential."
Within their delusional safe havens, devoid of balanced ideas and conservative counter-balance, Colleges and University are bubbles of mind-control in an alternative universe where THEY control everything, including all thoughts or deviation from Marxism and hive-mentality.
Faculty are at a further disadvantage simply because of time. While students are only exposed to it for a few years, faculty could spend their entire careers in such an invented hologram.
Great characterization.
But though it's only a few years spent in college, the indoctrination is so deeply concentrated, many a student is ruined for life. And then there is the peer pressure and ostracizing of BOTH conservative student and faculty to consider. The phenomena is the ultimate elitism.
I had a landlord once, a full-blown professor of something so I though I was dealing with an impressively smart guy. But when it came time to solve some problems, he demonstrated he had about no practical knowledge of how to take care of the house I was renting. He was totally clueless suggesting using auto brake fluid as a sliding door lubricant and was unaware they have wheels in them which were completely shot.
I've run into the same thing with these supposed Mental Giants; Their problem is, they become SO focused on their personal "War on Them" and Leftist OCD that most other logic and processes of technical and learning skills, as well as people skills is stunted.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-13 12:40:58 Reply Private Reply
#5: tpaine To: Pinguinite, Y'ALL (#1)
As a general contractor on the SF Peninsula for 50 years, I dealt with hi- tech/academic types my entire career.
It always amazed me how many of these really smart, educated people didn't know how to solve ordinary everyday problems. I think it's due to over- specialisation. Once they got that deep into the mental weeds, they lost their ability to use common sense...
In fact, it seemed to run in families. Their wives and kids often seemed infected.
tpaine posted on 2017-11-13 13:03:13 Reply Private Reply
#6: rlk To: IbJensen (#0)
Freedom of speach has been deliberately confused with license to impose serious psychopathology and even grade people positivly on their basis of being stupid enough to accept it. It's considered a mark of creativity.
rlk posted on 2017-11-13 13:36:14 Reply Private Reply
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