Posted on 10/19/2017 6:16:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dear President Stearns (prestalk@umontana.edu):
Earlier this semester, I was invited to speak at the University of Montana (UM) as part of a distinguished lecture series funded by an outside benefactor. For ten years, the series has been organized in conjunction with the school of journalism and has involved meetings with journalism students and professors. The nine previous lectures went off without a hitch. Then, they invited me to speak in February of 2018. Now, I have been banned from speaking on your campus.
The decision to ban me from speaking at UM was made by Dean of Journalism Larry Abramson. In an email to the series benefactor, Abramson provides some reasons why I was not given a platform to speak. Many of them deserve a rebuttal, which I will provide after quoting his email directly:
If you jump in at 3:30 on the link at the bottom, you can hear (Dr. Adams) talking about his opposition to tolerance of transgender accommodations. He appears to be siding with Christians in the culture war. In this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oX9ya3EW04 he talks about his efforts to make sure that abortion providers give time to Christian speakers, in the interest of freedom of speech. He also talks about the prevalence of cultural Marxism, and exclusively speaks on right wing sites. In this one, https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2017/04/07/why-im-banning-illegal-aliens-from-my-classes-n2310029 he talks about why he will no longer allow illegal aliens into his classes. I think we can find a speaker who will talk about free speech issues, without running the risk of offending students. We can still have a conversation with him if you want, but he is pretty extreme in his views.
There are at least eight problems with this statement, which I will tackle in the order in which they appear in the Deans email.
Abramson was quoted in a recent newspaper interview as saying, Im not a lawyer, but Im sure our lawyers would tell you that there are requirements that we accommodate different peoples views, but the J-school does not have to invite people that we think dont match with our priorities or our values as a tolerant, welcoming school.
Try to make sense of the logic of this Dean telling me I am not going to be tolerated or welcomed at the J-school because I am not as tolerant and welcoming as they are at the J-school. After finishing a career with NPR, now hes teaching future journalists. Any wonder why we have a problem with honesty both in reporting and in higher education?
If you were smart, you would lift the ban on me speaking at UM. Then, you could hire me as your new Dean of Journalism.
Sincerely,
Mike S. Adams
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Mike Adams textually evicerates yet another university Leftist. He is just GOOD at it!
Excellent rebuttal.
The entire point of college is to take students out of their comfort zone and challenge them intellectually with a vary wide range of new ideas. Let them sort it out and come to their own conclusions. It’s how we grow.
Or at least it once was.
Oh, and does anyone know what event that picture is from? I love the Kek poster, almost certainly a Reddit The_Donald type.
If these namby pamby prissy boys cannot handle such harsh speech, who’s going to protect them in the event we ever have a really serious war again? Their professors? LOL!!!
Draft every damned one of these prissy boys and make men out of them. The professors should find some other place to spew their anti-America gas.
U of M grad 1966.
I remember a day in the 65 when a hippie from CA set up a tent at the University and was preaching anti VN war crap. The next day he was seen bare foot and hitch hiking toward Spokane WA. That is when there were real men attending the U of M.
The entire point of college is to take students out of their comfort zone and challenge them intellectually with a vary wide range of new ideas. Let them sort it out and come to their own conclusions. Its how we grow.
Or at least it once was.
Now the point seems to be to indoctrinate them in cultural Marxism.
The typical leftist will see Mike’s name as author and simply not read it. After all, they would risk being offended!
I absolve the Millennial generation of snowflakery. It is the two generations teaching them and administering the campi that I blame.
My, how the home of the Griz has changed! It's become a cesspool of socialism/communism. Along with the city of Missoula.
Hey, I'm speaking as a Montana State alum.
This seems Trump-inspired. He punches back, harder.
If Betsy DeVos eventually wants to move on from being Secretary of Education, I think it would be hilarious for President Trump to nominate Mike Adams for the job.
Especially if conservative Republicans do especially well in the next senate elections.
A google search say it is an AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez.
I found a copy of it in a Washington Examiner article. Thats where I saw the credit.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
What a great idea. Need to ask Mike where he thinks he might be a needed wrecking ball.
I keep hearing that the Left is collapsing.
Still doesn’t look like it to me.
Looks like they have full control of academia and the Media and are busy brainwashing our kids.
In Montana of all places, where Trump took over 56% of the vote.
Shi-ite! Their professors should lead them to the front lines to negotiate with their armed enemies.
Shi-ite! Their professors should lead them to the front lines to negotiate with their armed enemies.
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