Professor's sudden dismissal stuns students(Aryan Race Nation)

Professor's sudden dismissal stuns students By Tiffanie Johnson and Roberto Chavez

Students expressed shock last week when a popular history professor suddenly was dismissed. Then many expressed disbelief after they discovered an audio-enhanced website where he spoke out against Jews and blacks, including FDU basketball players.

"He was my favorite professor," said one student. "I can't believe it is the same man."

In fact, Jacques Pluss, an adjunct professor at the Metropolitan Campus, openly discussed his March 21 dismissal from Fairleigh Dickinson in a 44-minute interview on a website of the National Socialist Movement designed with swastikas and a picture of Adolf Hitler.

Pluss said he was "removed" from his classroom duties when he received a brief phone call at 5:30 p.m. from the department chairman who, he said, told him he was being released "for the convenience of the university" the following day. "I was stolen away in the night," he said. Pluss reported that he will be paid his salary through the end of this semester. He also said he will retire from "the academic world" and devote himself to the cause of the White Aryan Race Nation.

The professor speculated that he was dismissed because of his work with the National Socialist Movement on the internet, adding that the university "followed the typical Jewish, lawyerly, Hebrew line." He suggested that a "watchdog group" may have alerted FDU about his activities beyond the classroom.

During one segment of the conversation, Pluss said the university did not want adverse publicity while its Division 1 basketball team was in the NCAA playoffs. He said the players are "n--- to the core" and "sit in the back of my class with CDs and earphones" listening to "ghastly rap music."

Earlier in the same broadcast, Pluss referred to the "browning of America" and called FDU a "heavily Judaized institution" with a large minority student population. He said those students are "floating their way through school on taxpayer dollars," adding that it (FDU) is "not just browned, but singed." He also discussed attending a recent "gathering" of the White Aryan Race Nation in South Carolina, commenting that he had been gratified by the turnout.

Talking about his sudden dismissal, Pluss said it was "a terrible thing to do for students" who will have to deal with "a new teaching style, a new course outline and exams." He said he learned that "half of the class did try to speak with the department chairman" about his departure, but "were told to leave the building."

Pluss also said he "was not teaching any particular ideology" in his classes because of his training, specifically at the University of Chicago where he earned a Ph.D.

The audio broadcast apparently was posted on Tuesday, March 22, the day after Pluss was dismissed. Within 24 hours, word had spread among students, especially residents, that his views could be heard by conducting a Google search using his name.

"I feel that the college did what was necessary to protect its students from any type of emotional danger or law suits that could have come up because of him belonging to the National Socialist Movement," said junior Ameniki Omotola, an international student from Trinidad. "Dr. Pluss never appeared to be a person who supported white supremacy. In fact, this really shocked me when I saw his name on the website. His classes were entertaining, and I could say I learned a lot."

Sophomore Charles White said Pluss was one of his favorite teachers during his freshman year. "Pluss never came off to me in class as a man who supported white supremacy," he said. "He was one of my favorite teachers and I talked highly of him. I really liked him, and now I'm ashamed I ever did. I feel the school did the right thing in firing him."

Senior Christopher Langford said he was shocked and disappointed when he found out about Dr. Pluss. "I had no idea that he was an alleged racist," he said. "Now that I think about it, Dr. Pluss seemed to have a morbid fascination with Hitler and Nazism. But he never once taught propaganda or expressed his views in class. He came off as being liberal in his thinking. An incident arose in class about racism, and he appeared to be very anti-racist."

Meanwhile, the Equinox received a press release from the National Socialist Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minn.; it was dated March 23 and emailed by Jacques Pluss.

The release stated: "The NSM officially condemns Fairleigh Dickinson University for engaging in acts of left-wing McCarthyism. This past Monday, Professor Jacque Pluss was removed from his teaching position apparently for no other reason than being a member of NSM. It is against every concept of the Constitution and the principles of our republic and an act of sheer stupidity for the powers that be to force anyone to leave job [sic] simply because of his/her legal political affiliations. If American universities truly stand for the market place of ideas, and of freedom of expression, then we must protect all, including Professor Jacques Pluss . . . We at the NSM also realize that the Constitution is best protected in a free marketplace of ideas rather than by school officials that may be controlled by political correctness and Jews."

However, the university administration gave quite a different reason for the dismissal. "He was released for the official reason of (having) six absences and not making them up," said Dean of University College John Snyder. "As a professor, he did not meet that requirement."

Snyder responded to the professor's claim that he was released for the "convenience" of the university. "It's the Universities responsibility to take care of its students and the academics of the students," Snyder said.

Pluss was replaced in the classroom by Prof. Michelle Hartman. According to Snyder, she reported that students were upset and asking many questions. "Students were really upset because they didn't ever get anything that indicated he was basically a hate monger," said Snyder. "The term they used was 'betrayal.' They felt betrayed for the most part."

"We don't do FBI-style security checks for adjunct professors for the reason that we have an incredible number of adjunct professors," Snyder continued. "Also, when reviewing background information, you can never obtain information from previous employers on why they (former employees) were released or let go. They never disclose reasons for leaving." He said the University discovered the professor's Nazi associations after he had left his position.

Snyder said that, when the department decided to dismiss him, nobody knew his whereabouts. After the University discovered his outside activities, research showed that he was making Nazi statements. "I don't really know what the initial resource was for getting to the website - I don't know how students found out," said Snyder.

Attempts by the Equinox to reach Faramarz Fatemi, director of the School of History, Political and International Studies, who informed the professor of his release, were unsuccessful.

Freshman Tiara Johnson felt that Pluss never came off as a white supremacist. "I would have never guessed it in a million years," she said. "I just don't understand how he could smile in our faces and have long conversations with black students [in class], but carry so much hatred for us deep down inside. One thing I noticed was that he missed about five or six classes this semester, but never told us where or why he was gone."

Sophomore Marc Eichler said that, when he heard that Dr. Pluss was a member of the National Socialist Movement, he nearly fell out his chair. "I'm Jewish, but the guy never had anything against me -in fact, he gave me an A," he said. "He never came off as being a racist. I would discuss issues regarding my religion in class, and he never said anything."

Senior Allison Baretz said that a professor does not belong at FDU teaching issues such as the Holocaust when he himself believes in it. "During class he never really came off as a man who supported white supremacy, but after knowing his actions and thinking back, there were some signs," she said. "He talked a lot about religion. He did not want to teach the Holocaust for more than one class (an hour and a half). And he asked us to write a journal as if we were in the shoes of a German soldier during the Holocaust, asking us how we would react. For our mid-term, he gave us a question of comparing and contrasting the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany to modern-day terrorism. I have this reaction because I am Jewish, and to have a 'Nazi' teacher does not go over well. I am extremely relieved that the school made this decision to fire Dr. Pluss and did not disregard it and let him stay."

"He was one of my favorite teachers," Langford said. "I even wanted to nominate him as Faculty Member of the Year for the SGA Gala."

Yes, if he advocated the extermination of tens of millions of farmers, or something like that. But he didn't, and that isn't the issue at hand. History professors are employed to teach objective history--not Nazi revisionism.

From all accounts, that is exactly what he did, teach objective history and not Nazi revisionism. It is for his status as a Nazi and not for advocating the extermination of tens of millions that he is being terminated. But the problem is that the BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM tells us that the Marxists killed tens of millions too, indeed many more tens of millions than did the Nazis. But no one believes that an assistant professor would be terminated for his statusas a Marxist even though their hands are bloodier.

It is just a fact at Farleigh Dickinson that some animals are more equal than others.

We are talking about THE Nathan Bedford Forrest, right? The man who ordered the slaughter of unarmed Union prisoners of war at Fort Pillow, and (as LauraLee pointed out), founder of the KKK? You and historian Shelby Foote have a great deal in common, celebrating murderous war criminals and cloaking it with that gauzy nostalgia some drape over the Confederacy. No one doubts Forrest's genius in mobile warfare, but to use him as some sort of icon of free speech is laughable. And while it's true that Marxists and anarchists seem to get a free pass in higher learning, that doesn't mean we as conservatives should accept outright Hitler-worshipping Nazis as a kind of quid pro quo on college campuses.

You're advocating against dismissal of an avowed Nazi from his job as a university professor. You're trying to distract from that by arguing that he would not have been fired if he were a Marxist.

It's common knowledge that we (conservatives) who are not Nazis don't want either Nazis or Marxists as university professors. Both are socialists, although the desire among Nazis for genocide is more obvious.

It's very common for Nazis to try to change the topic from criticism against Nazism to a discussion of Marxism. By the post above, this is not a discussion of Marxism.

You're using the name of the Pillow Fort Butcher for your Free Republic account. Nathan Bedford Forest's approximately 2500 cavalry slaughtered those who were left of the little more than 550 men (262 black) he attacked after they tried to surrender. Then Nathan Bedford Forest said, "The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards. It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners."

He was also a slave dealer and owner before the War, who founded the Ku Klux Klan after his kind were all beaten in the War.

"So, no, I am not a member of the Klan. But if I were, would you have me stripped of my franchise or only of the right to speak out on FreeRepublic?"

We've heard that argument many times before.

You don't have "the right to speak out on" Free Republic. It's a privilege granted by the owner of the site. The site owner can regulate speech in his publication as he wants to, and that is his First Amendment right. He also has the freedom to associate with whom he wants.

"He should have spoken out against America and George Bush. He would have been granted tenure."

You can openly embrace a mass-murdering cread like communism and you'll do just fine in academia. You can broadcast all the feminazi "hate speech" you want about men and the university will reward you for it. You can demean and insult white students in required "ethnic sensitivity" indoctrination classes and you'll steadily advance through the ranks. You can be a convicted murderer, bashing America from death row, and the university will welcome you as its commencement speaker.

But if you privately espouse fascism and white supremacy, you'll be out on your ear.

nathanbedford: Even a Klan member has a right to his point

nathanbedford: So, no, I am not a member of the Klan. But if I were, would you have me stripped of my franchise or only of the right to speak out on FreeRepublic?

nathanbedford: From all accounts, that is exactly what he did, teach objective history and not Nazi revisionism. It is for his status as a Nazi and not for advocating the extermination of tens of millions that he is being terminated

As a longtime observer and occasional veteran of the Civil War threads around here, these feeble observations do not surprise me in the least.

Kinda says it all, in fact...

True.

But if you privately espouse fascism and white supremacy, you'll be out on your ear

And I'm all for it: such ~~Volks~~ folks have zero sympathy from me when they're rightly cashiered from the teaching business in public, taxpayer-supported institutions. Or private ones, for that matter. Scummy neo-Nazis--or even the old-fashioned type--have no place in any classroom dedicated to molding young minds, period.

A healthy disdain & disgust for both totalitarian ideologies is the appropriate stance. But your "on the other hand" pleadings lead me to believe that the sensible stance is not exactly what you had in mind...what say you?

"But if you privately espouse fascism and white supremacy, you'll be out on your ear."

Oh, waaaaaaaa! Nazi victimology is such a tearjerker.

Our lack of completion in the task of getting the commie instructors out of universities is no excuse for keeping the Nazis in. All socialists must go away from teaching positions--not only the communists. If you want to start Goebbels university, you go right ahead. We're all aware that many of the Democrats (given their Middle East policy of chickenhood and propagandizing for terrorists) will be more than happy to help you.

Our lack of completion in the task of getting the commie instructors out of universities is no excuse for keeping the Nazis in

Exactly right--one has nothing to do with the other, save in the abstract. Well-said, family; you summed it up better than I ever could.

Bonaparte, this is some basic logic you could ~~ought to~~ brush up on: Who says A must say B. The converse of the equation, as in first year algebra, holds true: Who subtracts A, must subtract B.

It's always wery, wery curious to me (to paraphrase both Bugs Bunny & Stephen King) in such discussions: those whom rightly rage against the communists (whom I despise), while pulling their tender punches against communism's twin sisters the Nazis, and their attendant and amply documented horrors.

Curious, indeed, to the point of cynicism...

Thankyou for the simplistic lesson in rudimentary logic.

If you can find where I said nazism was ok, I'll be happy to recant. But I doubt you can do that. It's undeniable that academia has long been sympathetic to communism in all its brutality, while hypocritically clucking its tongue at fascism. Clearly, the academy is not opposed to genocide and slavery per se, only to the wrong flavor of genocide and slavery.

"Why did you name yourself after the founder of the KKK?"

From another site, with Nathan Bedford's biography:

"Wiped out financially by the war, he resumed planting and became the president of the Selma, Marion & Memphis Railroad, which he helped to promote. Joining the Ku Klux Klan shortly after the war, he was apparently one of its early leaders."

http://www.civilwarhome.com/natbio.htm

"Our lack of completion in the task of getting the commie instructors out of universities is no excuse for keeping the Nazis in. All socialists must go away from teaching positions--not only the communists. If you want to start Goebbels university, you go right ahead. We're all aware that many of the Democrats (given their Middle East policy of chickenhood and propagandizing for terrorists) will be more than happy to help you."

Here we are in fundamental disagreement. Privately held views do not disqualify a man for employment in a public institution. If he conducts himself competently and professionally and does not force his personal views on his students, I see no justification for excluding him. From the accounts given in the article, Pluss refrained from propagandizing his students in nazism and was considered a fine instructor. I would extend this same consideration to those with privately held views that are communist.

As much as I may despise both communism and fascism, I don't believe in dismissing a man without good cause.

You may now return to calling me a nazi.

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