Posted on 07/03/2016 10:54:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Three professors have blamed the Orlando mass shooting on “toxic masculinity,” “ultranationalist” discourse, and “wide availability (and fetishization) of weapons.”
Their essays, collected on Ohio State University’s Mujeres Talk blog, appeared in a post titled “Countering Hate with Knowledge, Fury, and Protest: Three Latina/o Studies Scholars Respond to Orlando Massacre.”
“To say ‘We are all Orlando,’ is to risk being thought a queer, a fag, a freak, unnatural,” wrote Mariana Ortega, a philosophy professor at John Carroll University. “It is to lose the honorable shield of hetero-love.”
Professor Ortega described the “Latinx” community’s response to the shooting as one consisting of sorrow, anger, and despair.
“[The anger] sprouts many branches,” she said. “Infusing our breathing with fire when we hear that government employees find it unbearable to see the rainbow flag flying half mast in their building, when hateful followers of some pitiable but horrendous marginal church will desecrate the dead and pierce their loved ones with their hateful speech and their miserable signs and voices, because they all think they are loved by some made-up god of hate.”
Similarly, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Latina/o Studies Program director at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor declared it has become “self-evident that to be queer and Puerto Rican or Latina/o in the United States is strange and at times profoundly dangerous.”
“What’s worse, these challenges come along with the general risks of life in the U.S., given the prevalence of weapons, profound social inequalities, lack of comprehensive mental health care (and in some cases, basic health care), and the rise in xenophobic, ultranationalist and extremist discourses that we face,” he wrote.
When Campus Reform reached out for comment, La Fountain-Stokes declined to elaborate on the previous statement.
“While love, understanding, and forgiveness are powerful tools that help us to heal and honor our victims and our dead,” continued the professor. “Anger, fury and rage are also useful and at times absolutely necessary emotions that we must tap into to address the profound violence we suffer at the hands of bigoted individuals, antidemocratic governments, and repressive states.”
“Tapping into these emotions means channeling our energies to demand social change: speaking out against racism, homophobia, lesbophobia, and transphobia; demanding stricter gun control laws; addressing the social and economic crisis in Puerto Rico by focusing on the needs of its people and not those of Wall Street vulture funds.”
La Fountain-Stokes declined to comment on what he believed what the role of Islam was in the Orlando shooting.
Professor Marcia Ochoa of UC Santa Cruz’s Feminist Studies department also weighed in with her opinion on the attack.
“The countless killings of Colombian people during this time were part of a conflict about the power of the state rooted in toxic masculinity, impunity, and the wide availability (and fetishization) of weapons,” said Ochoa. “We in the United States are also steeped in this culture of masculinity, militarization, and violence. I trace this back to deep patterns of colonial violence that allow and empower men to terrorize everyone. When 98% of mass shooters are men, we cannot ignore the connections between violence and masculinity.”
“The Orlando Pulse shooting is a manifestation of colonial terror, not the epidermal ‘terrorism’ the US constructs as its Other. For whatever his confusion or motive, Omar Mateen worked in private security. He purchased his assault weapons legally and was licensed to carry them. He chose his target, the nightclub, apparently out of rancor for issues he himself may have been struggling with.”
While Campus Reform also reached out to Ortega and Ochoa for comment, the two professors did not respond in time for publication.
Sign of the times. LGBT-alphabet soup weirdness is all normal. Nothing is abnormal. Except masculinity. Do any of these so called academics even had a concept of “toxic femininity”? Toxic LGBTQ-ness? Of course not.
Their wise “Latinx” perspectives lets them see right past all the obvious orthodox jihadi behavior.
toxic masculinity” wow prof, I thought a queer muslim murdered the perverts. Maybe it was whiteys fault, or Bush’s, or the GOP’s fault.
Gotta find some way to make it Whitey’s Fault...
I wonder if any of these jihadi-enabling professors is LGBT, and if their behavior at night-spots has changed.
Anyone who writes such stupid crap should not be referred to as a “scholar”.
I'm not sure how to take that ...
...and to think these wackos get paid huge money to teach our kids this sort of crap in college....
Dear learned academics:
The next time a Moslem terrorist starts shooting Americans, please feel free to espouse your thoughts on the matter to him in a face-to-face conversation. Let me know how that works out for you. Last time I checked, they don’t hold Latino or feminist classes at the graveyard.
Love and kisses!
blueunicorn6
God provided a complete cure for the problem, not willing that anybody should perish. It’s adamant hatred towards God that is the real problem here.
Bush’S fault!
Just reading that gave me a headache.
5.56mm
Pretty much. My snowflake niece put a like on the toxic masculinity problem article on her FB page last week and I just could not pass it up. I commented that we have a Muslim problem not a masculinity problem. Then got into a little dustup back and forth with one of her friends who jumped on to call me a racist. Of course any kind of confrontation is too disturbing for my niece so she begged us to stop the hate. I gave it up as I do love the kid even though she is firmly entrenched in the hive.
“I gave it up as I do love the kid even though she is firmly entrenched in the hive.”
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The same with me with one granddaughter.
I just shake my head-——and keep my mouth shut.
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Aside from a tiny minority colleges are nothing more than employment programs for idiots who are incapable of functioning in the real world. Where else could someone so stupid write such utter nonsense AND get paid doing it? Oh yeah... Politics.
Yes most of the time I never comment on her or her sister’s crazy millennial screeds. Mr.GG2’s daughter same deal. These kids are a group we will never get back. They are totally brainwashed. Thank God my nephew is voting Trump.
College professors = communist infiltrators.
Seems the bottom of the image was cut off...
The rest of the story, if I recall correctly, is that the Soviets refused to negotiate, the hostages were killed, and the KGB hunted down and killed not only the kidnappers but also every male in their extended families, effectively extinguishing the bloodline. That apparently got their attention.
I went to the University of Washington on a military scholarship in (ahem) the mid-1970s. A fellow military student, who was a political science major, showed me one of the papers he had to write for the cadre of leftist/liberals running the department. Its language was so specialized and shaded in its use of common language terms that it read like gibberish. And he knew it did as well. But he also knew what was required to graduate.
Reading the extracts from these professors, I see things have gotten worse since then. How anyone could respect them is beyond me.
Were any of these "professors" able to connect “toxic masculinity,” with Islamic terrorism, or the religion of Islam?
Or are they just trying to muddy the water, by behaving like three blind mice?
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