Posted on 03/12/2007 10:39:04 PM PDT by peggybac
'Execute Republicans,' says college prof Defends classtime instruction because she said it with a smile
A part-time teacher at North Idaho College says it's all right to talk about executing "anyone who's ever voted Republican" as long as it's said with a smile.
The belief was expressed by instructor Jessica Bryan when her comments were challenged by a student, Linda Cook, who served as an aide to the late U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho, and is a longtime supporter of the Republican Party.
Cook wrote to the school asking for a refund on fees she paid for a course taught by Bryan, after she withdrew because of the instructor's comments. Cook told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that Bryan used every class period in the English composition course to criticize and disparage Republicans, including the suggestion of the death penalty for everyone who chooses to support a Republican with a vote.
"I signed up for an English composition course but was dismayed to receive a level of political vitriol that I believe was strictly extracurricular," Cook said her in letter to the school.
The North Idaho College Sentinel reported that Kent Propst, vice president for Community Relations, said, "At least one of the things she wants is tuition reimbursement for that course."
But it wasn't known if Cook was seeking sanctions against Bryan.
Among the allegations: Bryan reported President George W. Bush won the election "because people … can't read," and, regarding the death penalty: "First we line up everyone who can't think and right behind them, anyone who's ever voted Republican."
"Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that anyone would take it seriously," Bryan, who doesn't deny making the statements, told the newspaper. "They were always said with a smile."
She said the comments were an attempt "to get my students to think."
Cook's request to NIC Vice President Barbara Hanson is for a refund of the $379 she paid for the course. Officials said the school will review the situation.
Bryan said she thought Cook had enjoyed the "debate" of the classroom, but Cook said she chose not to confront the teacher during class time. "If someone's suggesting you just be killed you don't sit down and say 'let's talk,'" Cook said.
Bryan's perception is that she was the one who was hurt. "I do see it as an insult, personally and professionally," she said. Bryan told the Sentinel she believes Cook is making a "mountain out of a molehill."
The department syllabus notes that English 102 teaches "critical thinking" as well as essay and persuasive writing.
Reader Stan Hess told the Sentinel someone needs to think. "Consider, if Ms. Jessica Bryant had been a Republican professor, and had been quoted as saying 'I believe in the death penalty … First we line up everyone who can't think and right behind them, anyone who's ever voted Democrat.' What do you think the reaction would have been nationally and locally in the media? Marshall Mend, a founder of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Rights is quoted in the Coeur d Alene Press … 'When you say 'kill a bunch of people,' it's hate speech."
Another reader confirmed to the Sentinel Bryan does engage in "unrelated rants" but praised her for them. "It is through her sometimes unrelated rants about society that make you start to think about your very own viewpoint," said Jake Donahue.
Still another reader, Jessyka, said something similar, describing Bryan's lectures as "random and extreme."
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anyone with an email addy or slow mail addy ?.....I am just so sick of these idiots....
Of course calling for the death of Republicans, including openly rooting for Al Qaeda to have succeeded in killing Dick Cheney as Bill Maher and other DemoFoamers have done, is all perfectly acceptable to the mainstream media and thus this will never receive any media scrutiny. But call a Democratic presidential candidate a "faggot" and there will be wall to wall coverage on the network news casts and in the newspapers and endless statements of outrage over it from the liberal elites. But calling for the murder of one's political opposition is a-okay with these same hypocrites.
The thing is, if the tables were turned and a teacher said, with a smile, "let's line up democrats and shoot them", the entire country would be in an uproar, the offending teacher would be in obedience school and 40 more democrats would be elected.
....oh great... another "botched joke" excuse. (shaking head)
I had an Honors English professor in the early 1980s (1983, I believe) who, every day for the first 10-15 minutes of class, urged all students to contact our congressman and Senators to push for a Nuclear Freeze. She was a '60s holdover who thought nothing of using her position to push her political agenda. Some things never change.
The other scary thing is that if these maniacs ever do gain real power that these types of threats will no longer be just threats. I really believe that the new leftists would open "re-education" camps in a second if they thought they could get away with it.
Yeah, that was Ann's problem..
She didn't deliver the punchline with a smile...
Hate crime! Hate crime!
They will give her tenure! They will give a full time assistant and a nice office! She will be invited to lecture in Belgium about her views of the coming cataclysm caused by global warming! She is so brave to challenge to thoughts of others. Let's make her President of a major university.....
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So she wants a line of democrats followed by a line of republicans.
Didn't Ann Coulter *have a smile on* when she used the word "faggot" in regards to the Breck Girl?
Good old libby double standard.
Their first step will be to take our children, probably on the grounds that to raise them in conservative, or Christian homes is a form of child abuse.
the only thing that would excuse this would be if the teacher was smokin' hot. (but I bet she aint)
Leftist and radical islamicist have in common that they do not think it wrong to lie continuously for their beliefs. This vacuous brained leftist instructor shows her true colors by lying repeatedly to anyone she chooses for manipulations. This lying freak is the face of the modern democrat party, make no mistake in giving them a 'benefit of the doubt'. They are dead souls washed in the blood of slaughtered alive unborn children.
THANKS! I'll email the "B"!
Yes, she did, and moreover Ann did not say that the Breck Girl is a faggot, as a careful reading of her comment would reveal. In her subtle and oblique fashion Ann was reflecting on the risk of being committed to rehabilitation that one incurs these days by uttering a word that members of one of the currently Favored Groups might deem "offensive."
The first step will be to shutdown the internet so we can not communicate. Then they will go to town
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