Posted on 06/23/2017 4:21:37 AM PDT by markomalley
A University of Delaware professor claimed Wednesday that Otto Warmbier was typical of “rich, white, clueless males” and “got exactly what he deserved” at the hands of the North Koreans.
Katherine Dettwyler, an anthropology professor at UDel, expressed her feelings on the death of Warmbier in the comments section of an article published by National Review, as well as on her personal Facebook page.
Dettwyler argues that while in North Korea, Warmbier had acted like a “spoiled, naive, arrogant U.S. college student who never had to face the consequences of his actions,” later describing him as having the “typical mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males” she teaches.
She also expressed surprise at the footage of Warmbier crying during his sentencing hearing, saying he should have expected the consequences he faced, and then complaining that not enough thought is given to “all the other people in North Korea who are suffering under a repressive government.”
Dettwyler explains that she is “a 62 year old college professor” who has been teaching “folks just like Otto” her entire life, declaring that “these are the same kids who cry about their grades” after refusing to study, “or instead of crying, they bluster and threaten their female professors.”
When another reader objected to “the hatred you spew at ordinary white college kids,” Dettwyler responded by allowing that not all of her students fall into the category she described, saying, “I love my hard-working, sincere, non-arrogant college students.”
She nonetheless reiterated her original assumption that Warmbier was the type of student she detests, clarifying that “I said Otto’s behavior is like the ‘white, rich, clueless males’...[who] think nothing of raping drunk girls at frat parties and snorting cocaine, cheating on exams, and threatening professors with physical violence.”
Dettwyler’s page on RateMyProfessors.com suggests that her outburst was not unusual, with former students describing her as “very opinionated” and “obnoxious,” and even claiming that she “hates America.”
“It’s her opinion or no opinion and she won’t be afraid to express it even if it may offend half the class,” one former student warned, while another declared that “My problem with her is that she says we are not ‘entitled to our own facts,’ but she clearly seems to think she is.”
In her original comment, Dettwyler ultimately blames Warmbier’s parents for allowing him to grow up with the impression that “he could get away with whatever he wanted,” concluding that they “will pay this price for the rest of their lives.”
Campus Reform reached out to Dettwyler for commentary but she did not reply in time for publication.
I agree. There is no reason to believe Mr. Warmbier stole the poster. “Because the North Korean government said so ...”? Good gravy!
Going to NK was incredibly foolish, though.
Another white male hating leftist who thinks a white male she knows nothing about deserves to die for taking a poster. No doubt she thinks its a racial injustice for a black guy to get shot for trying to kill a police officer. This is what appears to be typical leftist thought amongst college professors these days.
...that dog has a desperate look about it...”like PLEASE someone, rescue me from this moronic animal abuser...sexual madness beyond belief...PLEASE”
This is where my tax money is going? I will be on the phone today.
He was stupid for going into North Korea. His parents should have warned him, and if they did, he should have listened.
That being said, he and his parents have paid the ultimate price and really don’t need the piling on.
The United States should prohibit travel by US-Passport-holders to North Korea without specific official orders.
I find it ironic that the sometime prof (fixated on breast feeding) was winner of the 1995 Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for “Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa.” I thought that Mead, the bogus anthropologist whose works have been discredited, had been dumped by the profession, which is itself replete with bogus individuals.
I seem to remember seeing a video of him tearing the poster down.
She’s the ugly one.
Don't get me wrong-this guy was an American citizen, and should have been protected and fought for as an American, no matter how stupid and foolhardy he may have been.
But signing up with the "Young Pioneers" to go over there indicates to me a strong degree of liberal Darwinism.
If what otto got was liberal justice if they were held to the same standard then jail for life in hard labor would be their sentence
Agreed. College students whose brains are full of mush shouldn't be able to travel over there just to show how much they are down with the "people's struggle".
It was incredibly foolhardy, not much different than the guy who was killed by a tiger after he went into its pen to hug and kiss it. Tigers, even penned ones, aren't for hugging and kissing. And North Korea isn't a place for visiting unless you have official business.
University of Delaware professor Kathryn Dettwyler demonstrates there is a reason Libtards are called Libtards.
Notice the new fad - they establish their Libtard credentials by dropping F-Bombs at every opportunity.
That shows that they really, really have passion about their latest rant - really.....
He asked his parents if he could go and they said “sure”.
Somebody should have warned his parents.
You said it much more eloquently than I would have. I really have no empathy for anyone who thinks going to North Korea is a good idea. May as well give a five year old child a loaded gun.
Wanna run that by me again??
This fugly broad should have her worthless a$$ kicked all the way to North Korea.
It ends with heads on pikes.
From what I can make out, he was part of a low-rated tour group called Young Pioneer Tours which is not related to the old communist clubs of yesteryear (could be wrong about this). It is run by some idiotic Brit out of China that takes young people to dangerous places like NK.
I have never understood his parents who seem naive to such an extreme I basically lost respect for them. My ethno-Catholic parents, brought up in the Depression and WWII, would have locked me up and thrown away the key before letting me go. They thought I was nuts when I saved my money to go to Rome!
A bit confused by your post. Are you saying Warmer was a CIA Agent? As in Amelia Earhart a “spy?”
..and she got it right.
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