Posted on 12/19/2014 5:09:13 AM PST by lifeofgrace
The University of Michigan is a bastion of free speech, according to its own public affairs department.
Freedom of expression is a core value of @UMich. Statement regarding column by Professor Susan Douglas http://t.co/tSouGSRaKI— UM Public Affairs (@UMPublicAffairs) December 18, 2014
But only if you’re a liberal. One professor is allowed to publish a hate piece about Republicans, but a conservative student is fired for his own article.
UMich professor Susan Douglas, chair-liberal of the communications department, wrote a hit piece entitled “It’s okay to hate Republicans”.
"I hate Republicans," she wrote to begin her column. "I can't stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal 'personhood.'"Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a liberal professor spewing her liberalism in a liberal blog like “In These Times”. And now she claims she didn’t even title it that way, as if that somehow softens her message into love and understanding.
Editor's note: This article was originally titled “We Can't All Just Get Along” in the print version of the magazine. The title was then changed, without the author's knowledge or approval, to “It's Okay to Hate Republicans.” The author rejects the online title as not representative of the piece or its main points. Her preferred title has been restored. We have also removed from the “Comments” section all threats to the author's life and personal safety.I suppose the opening sentence of her piece isn’t representative of anything, because Ms. Douglas is a communications professor who has no idea of what her point is. It doesn’t even bother me that she hates Republicans, although it bothers some Republicans, including Bobby Schostak, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
Bobby Schostak, the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, called the piece "ugly and full of hatred" and called for her resignation.I'm still waiting for her resignation, or for the university to fire her. I won't hold my breath. But they were pretty quick to fire another free speech writer.
I wrote about Omar Mahmoud a few days ago. Omar worked for The Michigan Daily, until he published a hilarious article titled “Do The Left Thing” on a conservative website called Michigan Review, in which he skewers the “TRIGGER WARNING” liberal student culture at UMich. For this, Omar wasn’t defended by the public affairs department. He was fired from the student paper.
Not only was he fired, but he has also suffered personal attacks.
On Friday night, according to Mahmood, people attacked his dorm room door, egging it and leaving copies of his satirical article with notes on the backs including “Shut the f— up!” and “You scum embarrass us” and “DO YOU EVEN GO HERE?! LEAVE!!” along with various others, including an image of a creature with horns and another one of him with his eyes crossed out.Apparently, at the University of Michigan, free speech is only a "core value" if you are are somewhere left of the Weather Underground in your political views.
(originally posted at RedState.com)
Go to Michigan State.
That’s my advice to any who ask. MSU isn’t FR conservative but compared to UofM it is.
UofM is still a grade A school but overburdened with radical leftists. It can still provide a good education but a student needs to struggle against the left every day.
Iirc one of the nastier examples of Progressive Fascism that Dinesh D’Sousa recounts in “Illiberal Education” is from UM. And that was 25 years ago.
And amazingly enough, people actually think they can be freidns with Leftists.
They’ve only been telling us in their screeds, pamphlets, books, lecture halls, editorials, and blogs exactly what they want.
They want you dead.
Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor. What is the significance of Catherine Neafie kellogg? Is this woman a part of the Kellogg Family (battle Creek, MI kellogg cereals)
Otherwise this woman is the Chairperson of the Communications department at U of M Her Fields of Study are Historical Approaches to Media and Technology and Gender and the media
here are her Published works:
The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done (Times Books/ Henry Holt (2010) )
Thhe Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Undermines Women ( with meredith Michaels The Free Press 2004
Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination *Times Books 1999)
Where the Girls Are: growing Up female with the Mass Times Books 1994 penguin 1995
Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 (John Hopkins 1987)
BA from Elmira College
MA and PhD from Brown University
been so immersed into liberalism that her head is full of caca.
I checked out her information so I can write my letter to the MI Board of regents. I vote in Michigan and when voting we can vote for the Michigan Board of regents. Also pay taxes for the Michigan University System
If this women can be condescending to a good deal of The Michigan Taxpayers than she can face the music of her rhetorical flourishes.
I cannot find anything on Catherine Neafie kellogg and the significance of her connection to the U of M
Isn’t that “hate speech”? Shouldn’t the polarizing, propagandist skank get fired for “hate speech”? Live by “hate speech”, die by “hate speech”. Hang the radicals by their own rules.
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As Alvy Singer said to Allison Portchnik: “Right, I’m a bigot, I know, but for the left.”
Brown and Elmira.... studying what exactly?
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.
In other words, they removed all of the hateful comments except the ones in the article.
Thanks for the info; posts. BTTT!
Whiny Conservatives Are Upset That Professor Wrote ‘It’s Okay To Hate Republicans’
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/whiny-conservatives-are-upset-professor
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