Sarah Lawrence College activists demand resignation of conservative prof for being conservative

A conservative professor at Sarah Lawrence College is being targeted by radical activists who don't much like the fact that he's conservative.

Usually, when we've covered cases like this, the activists and liberal faculty will take something the professor said, exaggerate it all out of proportion, and accuse the prof of being racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc.

But in this case, the offending professor, Samuel Abrams, penned an op-ed in the New York Times that simply advocated for political diversity on campus. Abrams said nothing remotely controversial, and he offered empirical evidence for massive liberal bias among college administrators.

The activists, calling themselves the "Diaspora Coalition," couldn't take it.

Reason.com:

One of these demands concerns Samuel Abrams, a tenured professor of politics.  Abrams is conservative-leaning, and has complained about the ideological bias of leftist administrators in a New York Times op-ed. Last November, his office door was vandalized by unknown persons who wanted him to apologize to marginalized students and quit the college.

Now the Diaspora Coalition is demanding that Sarah Lawrence review Abrams' tenure.  The review should be conducted by a panel consisting of members of — you guessed it — the Diaspora Coalition, as well as faculty members of color.

"In addition, the College must issue a statement condemning the harm that Abrams has caused to the college community, specifically queer, Black, and female students," the demands continue.  The college must also apologize "for its refusal to protect marginalized students wounded by his op-ed and the ignorant dialogue that followed.  Abrams must issue a public apology to the broader SLC community and cease to target Black people, queer people, and women."

What monstrous, racist, anti-gay, anti-female ideas did the professor publish?

I soon learned that the Office of Student Affairs, which oversees a wide array of issues including student diversity and residence life, was organizing many overtly progressive events — programs with names like "Stay Healthy, Stay Woke," "Microaggressions" and "Understanding White Privilege" — without offering any programming that offered a meaningful ideological alternative.  These events were conducted outside the classroom, in the students' social and recreational spaces.
The problem is not limited to my college.  While considerable focus has been placed in recent decades on the impact of the ideological bent of college professors, when it comes to collegiate life — living in dorms, participating in extracurricular organizations — the ever growing ranks of administrators have the biggest influence on students and campus life across the country. ...

Intrigued by this phenomenon, I recently surveyed a nationally representative sample of roughly 900 "student-facing" administrators — those whose work concerns the quality and character of a student's experience on campus.  I found that liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-to-one.  Only 6 percent of campus administrators identified as conservative to some degree, while 71 percent classified themselves as liberal or very liberal.  It's no wonder so much of the nonacademic programming on college campuses is politically one-sided.

Abrams carefully lays out a devastating case for ideological conformity at elite institutions — all to no avail. Apparently, Abrams is being targeted not for what he says, but for what he believes. And the people who are charged with defending his academic freedom are, themselves, hopelessly biased.

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., again ranks as the most expensive college in America, costing $61,236 for tuition and room/board in 2012-13, according to the latest edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Almanac of Higher Education.”

SOURCE:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/top-10-most-expensive-colleges-in-america/11/

Leftists insist we must tolerate the intolerable, yet will not tolerate any viewpoint that deviates from their orthodoxy.

Their lunacy has a ring of gallows humor to it when played out. Conservatives by and large want left alone; period. The liberals (if they can even be called such these days) want to dabble in everyone's lives and if you don't abide, welp, their might be oven's in Conservative's futures. On the other hand; we Conservatives have all the guns and will not burn in the ovens; we will however put the liberals down in droves. They (liberals, hard left) will probably bring about the next wave of history's mass executions because they won't simply leave us the fuck alone to have an opinion and exercise free speech. I won't pity a liberal, at all. Push to far, get buried deep; actually no, won't waste my time burying and wasting calories on a putrid leftist.

Leave me alone and you can live. Its pretty simple.

Ah, more leftist "tolerance," "acceptance," and "diversity" on display.

By now I hope everyone from Mensa members down to my cat realizes that the left only uses those terms to attack conservatives. The left has very little to do with real tolerance, acceptance, and celebrating diversity. They are demonstrably all about rigid conformance to their agenda. Stray from it and they pounce. The National Socialists of the 1930s would feel right at home with the leftists/socialists/fascists of today.

I am going to learn the entire ‘Die Gedanken sind frie’.

It should become a requirement for all of us that still support freedom of thought.

Large crowds singing this song - drowning out the Bolsheviks would certianly make great press - though in their abysmal ignorance - they’d probably mis-interpret anything sung in German as representing Nazi sympathies.

The Limeliters did this song on their ‘Folk Matinee’ album that was inspiring.

There is a German saying from the time period of “‘Die Gedanken sind frie’”, “City air is free air”, most of the German cities at the time were not under the control of the feudal lords but were run/managed internally usually by the gulds.

I don’t know the saying in German. I don’t think I have ever seen it. I know about Die Gedanken sind frie’ from a now long lost folk song album.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.