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Professor says was forced out over comment (Mirecki of Kansas)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^
| December 10, 2005
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Posted on 12/10/2005 8:38:21 PM PST by neverdem
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posted on
12/10/2005 8:38:23 PM PST
by
neverdem
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: neverdem
I don't recall anyone censoring this idiot. He spoke, and spoke and spoke again.
Mirecki seems to think that his speech should be free of consequences, though. A critical mistake.
To: neverdem
Mugshot of this distinguished intellectual giant. Reminds me a little of Ward Churchill.
To: neverdem
Boy they sure like to whine don't they?
To: neverdem
This guy is the biggest whiner I've ever seen. He got caught with his prejudices showing and he just can't believe he has to take responsibility for his words and actions. I guess he got over that "beating" by guys that no one saw and who failed to do him any real damage. I further guess it's hard to beat up on yourself and make it look real. And this is the type of person we want to teach our children values? I don't think so.
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posted on
12/10/2005 8:44:59 PM PST
by
pepperdog
To: FormerACLUmember
Wow, it's undoubtedly the same DNA. This is scary, is some mad professor/scientist cloning these fools?
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posted on
12/10/2005 8:46:57 PM PST
by
pepperdog
To: FormerACLUmember
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posted on
12/10/2005 8:48:31 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: neverdem
The university "has a duty, as a protector of intellectual honesty and debate, to support its teaching staff when controversial issues are raised," he wrote.
Where would he be now if he had criticised gays, women, or minorities in the same way he did "fundies"? All you have to do it read Mike Adams to find out.
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posted on
12/10/2005 8:50:23 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: FormerACLUmember
The First Ammednment is not a shield against criticism. You have no right to be that stupid.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:11:47 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Raoul's First Law of Journalism: BIAS = LAYOFFS)
To: FormerACLUmember
Mugshot of this distinguished intellectual giant. Perhaps now this pond scum is free to achieve his natural potential -- rolling cigars in Castro's Cuba.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:12:47 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(De gustibus non est disputandum.)
To: neverdem
Mirecki mocked religious conservatives as "fundies" and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face." Too bad, Mirecki. Couldn't happen to a nicer putz. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:14:44 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(What? Me worry?)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:17:33 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Raoul's First Law of Journalism: BIAS = LAYOFFS)
To: FormerACLUmember
Professor Paul A. Mirecki
Chair, Department of Religious Studies
The University of Kansas
205 Smith Hall
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Phone: 785.864.7252
FAX: 785.864.5205
pmirecki@ku.edu
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:19:11 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Raoul's First Law of Journalism: BIAS = LAYOFFS)
To: Doctor Raoul
Mirecki mocked religious conservatives as "fundies" and said ....(it)would be a "nice slap in their big fat face." Fat face? I'll show you a fat face needing to be slapped (figuratively of course):
To: neverdem
Memo to self: Pick up an extra quart of sympathy in the morning.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:26:14 PM PST
by
Valin
(Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege)
To: neverdem
..."The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind..."I'm sorry; I must have missed the part where he's been "denied" his right to speak or express his mind or anything like that. Unless I'm mistaken, the right to free speech is only (supposed to be) a protection from the government's suppression of your speech; not a blanket immunity from consequence of your speech.
Maybe his ideas and expressions aren't being condoned or supported but hey, he's got the right to say it. Being the smart guy he is, I'm sure he understands the difference between the right to say something and the fact that free speech also has consequences.
Right?
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:26:30 PM PST
by
Chasaway
(My puppy can lick your honor student...)
To: neverdem
"The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind," Some people never get it.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:27:06 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: neverdem
<< The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind .... >>
Rubbish.
The Constitution protects my right to speak to and of the government, not any imagined "right" it and its lickspittles might give themseves.
And this misinformed ignoramous [Like U-Colorado's Churchill] must own to the fact that once his institution accepted the king's shilling, the government's dole - and he the institution's - he made himself the servant of the government.
Which may then excercise its employer's rights over whatever he may say and may not - and, should he chose to put his in the circumstances subordinate rights as an American ahead of his responsibilities as a servant? Afford him the dignity of the consequences of his actions.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:31:46 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
(How arrogant need we be to reckon our self-serving career political lumpen superior to theirs?)
To: Doctor Raoul
You have no right to be that stupid.I beg to differ. Everyone has a right to be stupid and intolerant as well. When consequences happen, you have a right to be surprised. He signed the resignation. That was stupid too. I want see what happens with a court challenge. I doubt that he wins.
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posted on
12/10/2005 9:32:08 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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