NJ college fires professor over comments made on Tucker Carlson Tonight

The Hill ^ | June 24, 2017 | Josh Delk

[jazusamo]

Essex County College has fired adjunct professor Lisa Durden after she made racially insensitive comments in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, according to a new report by the Associated Press.

The college’s president, Anthony Munroe, announced the decision Friday, two weeks after Durden went on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss an “all-black Memorial Day celebration” hosted by a Black Lives Matter group.

When asked by Carlson about the event, Durden interrupted the host, saying “boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your white privilege card to get invited” to the Black Lives Matter event.

“You’re demented, actually,” Tucker later responded to her defense.

Durden went on to call America a “racist society.”

According to AP, Durden was suspended with pay on June 8, two days after the interview aired, when college officials say they received complaints about her comments. After a Tuesday meeting with college officials, she was fired.

Durden said the college “publicly lynched” her.

Munroe said that Essex College “supports and affirms the right of free speech and independent views and expressions of those views” for their faculty and staff," but Durden's "potential impact on students" required an immediate review that led to her firing.

Durden’s lawyer, Leslie Farber, said that Durden may have had her rights to free speech violated, and that they were considering legal action.

“The character of this institution mandates that we embrace diversity, inclusion, and unity. Racism cannot be fought with more racism,” Munroe wrote in a statement announcing Durden’s firing.

Durden compared her experience to that of a rape victim blamed for the crime, or a person returning to a hostile environment from war.

[jazusamo]

Free speech for me but not for thee.

Professor Lisa Durden

[JohnBrowdie]

good. She was out of control. Hateful, bitter, racist, people have no business teaching young people.

[clintonh8r]

Schadenfreude....

[BenLurkin]

Carlson may have been right with his “demented” observation.

[TBP]

Hateful, bitter, racist

So how did she get fired?

[fhayek]

Her lawyer may be even stupider than she is, if that is possible.

[Eddie01]

The more irrational hate in your heart, the lower your IQ.

Is 80 too generous?

[Sasparilla]

She was a very nasty woman in that interview. Kinda scary too.

[gov_bean_ counter]

How does one become so angry?

[jazusamo]

She was certainly out of control!

[Mears]

That interview was dreadful-——a very hateful woman.

She even said she would be back———astonishing.

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[SaveFerris]

Buh-bye!!!!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Too bad she’s so demented, as she’s a pretty gal!

[BradyLS]

These days, a little common sense is about the last thing I expect.

[snarkytart]

"Lisa Durden taught communications and pop culture classes at Essex County College in the Brick City."

Communications and pop culture professor, huh? This always makes me laugh. This woman probably has an IQ of 102 if that, and she was a professor. I'm sure she liked to spout off about how Trump supporters/voters are all uneducated rednecks. Yet, one look at this woman and her background tells us she's a quota/affirmative action Federal government charity case, with very little real intelligence. What a joke college has become in the US. Even if you take STEM, you still get indoctrinated by one of these humanities/pop culture elective classes.

[MileHi]

Ah, darn.

[DoughtyOne]

It’s a start...

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Well, she’s not terrible looking. She can always go back to turning tricks full time.

[BradyLS]

What are the odds that Tucker’s observation will be the key phrase the plaintiff’s use in their case against the school?

[Old Yeller]

She looks like Sideshow Bob.