Posted on 04/20/2016 1:36:08 PM PDT by markomalley
An article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education features a professor stating that she doesn’t want to write letters of recommendation for students who are gun enthusiasts.
The column, published anonymously by a woman using the pseudonym Myrtle Lynn Payne, describes her long-lasting phobia of guns and how it poisoned her relationship with a student she calls Sarah. Payne says Sarah was a hard-working student with some potential, but alas, she was also a gun enthusiast
“I [took] on the first day during a sharing activity we typically do at the beginning of my science lecture courses,” Payne writes. “Sarah shared that the most notable experience of her winter break was a visit to a gun range where she had fired an AK-47. I gave the usual ‘very good, moving on’ response but was thinking, ‘Whoa, that’s disturbing.'”
Later, Payne was disturbed when she overheard Sarah discussing her plans to obtain a concealed-carry permit in the near future.
“I hadn’t known we had such permits in our state but apparently we do,” Payne says, apparently unaware that concealed-carry permits exist in every U.S. state (though Illinois only legalized them in 2013 following the District of Columbia v. Heller decision).
All of this came to a head when Sarah asked Payne to write a recommendation for her to apply to a teacher certification program. Payne initially said yes, but says she began to reconsider after the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, which killed 10 people and wounded several more.
Now, Payne is in a bind, with her desire to support students clashing with her general hatred of guns.
“She seems to be a good kid, Sarah. And I don’t know what she really thinks of gun advocacy and political failures that have cost us all these lives and our sense of safety as educators,” she says. “I don’t know what she does on the weekends. I also don’t know if she understands emotions, or what real rage feels like. It seems to me no person who has truly experienced the full impact of their own emotions would ever go near a gun.”
Payne says she is deciding not just between writing the letter or giving a reasoned ‘no,’ but has also considered ignoring Sarah entirely. She also expresses fear for her physical safety, worrying that if she vocally refuses to write a recommendation for a gun-toting student, she may end up on “some sort of list.”
The article ultimately ends without Payne coming to a final decision.
“Educators” like this need to be driven from the profession by any means necessary.
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What is this ignoramus professor of? Phrenology?
Then YOU are to one with the problem, professor... and you are purposely harming the life of someone innocent who did not share your phobias
How is that any different than shaming people for beign gay or pursuing them like ISIs for smoking all the way into their toilets at home with Swat teams?
Does that mean if her stupid college opened a building next to a shooting range, the shooting range would have to move?
Because essentialy she is saying she cannot educate someone who happens of to be of the shooting enthusiast type INCIDENTALLY.
this is completely illegal and fascist in its active political pursuit against gun owners
Sarah is straying from the coven.
That cannot be allowed.
Other girls might get ideas.
Sarah must be shunned.
Bitches spank.
Too late, you are on it!
The University System indoctrinates young students to the merits of ever-expanding gummint.
Then da Gummint backs student loans, assuring the loans for fanciful majors can’t be dissolved via bankruptcy:
One hand washes the other.
If Universities REALLY believed in the value of those majors, they would SHARE the risk by agreeing to NO fed loans for those majors, or by permitting bad gambles to go away via bankruptcy.
The student risk is INFINITE, yet the risk Universities face is now ZERO.
(I have never had a student loan)
Mentally ill coward being a bully. The student should sue her.
“It seems to me no person who has truly experienced the full impact of their own emotions would ever go near a gun.”
Such as a rape victim who was left feeling utterly helpless because she had no way of defending herself because of gun grabbing a-hole liberals like yourself, professor?
People know who she is; maybe somebody will post her real ID so she has to explain her decision to the student and other students.
Make no mistake, it was published anonymously because it’s a threat. It cannot be defended - it is political ideology. But the hags behind it intend to sabotage these girls who have become utterly dependent upon group approval - and they’ll never even know it. Remember, the real threat was to “not even respond.” You want to terrify a college girl, addicted to constant feedback? Don’t respond.
Advancements are only for members of the party in good standing.
In the 60s we let the commies into the U.S. higher education system and they have slowly taken over these past 40 plus years and as they gained control over all education and our country has went steadily downhill.
Based on the comments below the article, the professor’s views are not getting a sympathetic reception from the audience.
Wow, read the whole article - its positively fetishistic. You can easily imagine the author rocking back and forth in a straightjacket, covered with drool, a broken doll at her feet, in a psychiatric ward, as she whispers in terror.
If this wasn’t written as a psyop, this woman is severely mentally disturbed. She’s more likely to snap and go berserk and hurt people out of paranoia than anything else.
“...I also don’t know if she understands emotions, or what real rage feels like. It seems to me no person who has truly experienced the full impact of their own emotions would ever go near a gun...”
The implication being that this professor *has* experienced strong emotions, and knows that she lacks the self-control to be responsible.
More corroboration that a big part of liberal antipathy towards guns is due to them projecting their own inadequacies onto others.
So... why isn't concealed carry now considered to be "law of the land' - just like gay marriage was after that supreme court decision?
There, fixed it.
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