They Found 88 Problems, and the Dancer Was Just One

The Chronical On-Line (Duke) ^ | 16 March 07 (updated) | Steve Veres

[Diplomat]

There was another list as MATH. As far as I am concerned, the Physics and Math professors need to explain themselves. The rest can be assumed to be your typical racist marxists you will find on every college campus in America teaching the non-sciences.

[JoeFromSidney]

Sadly true. In my experience as a former academic with a Ph.D. in the social sciences, most universities have a hard-core radical Left (10-20% of the faculty and administration) that receives tacit support from liberals who make up the vast majority of the faculty and administration.

I got a reputation as the campus conservative. Whenever there was a debate of some kind, they called on me as the token right wing extremist. I kind of enjoyed it. Most liberals have never faced anyone who can offer an argument against them. They don't know what to do when they face one.

[DMZFrank]

This is a copy of an email that I sent to this "professor" named Kim Curtis at kcurtis@acpub.duke.edu

Schadenfreude. I never really appreciated the nuances of this word until I beheld the burgeoning fallout from this imbroiglio. I LOVE to see liberals like you hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as "Tawana Brawley Syndrome".

TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist crminal justice syndrome or the past subjagation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don't apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.

None of this would have happened to you if you had taken the time to sift thru the facts and objectively apply them rather than stuffing them into cliched dialectic "meta-narratives" of classist white male exploitation of an oppressed black woman with echoes of plantation sexual abuse.

Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the "other" (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privliged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!

Even though I despise the racial identity politics that mindlessly multicultural cultural Marxists like you have fostered amongst my people to our ultimate detriment, I would like to state that I am a black man living in the heart of Chicago's South Side ghetto, who values the rule of law and truth as best as it can be objectively and humanly determined.

It would be fitting if he gets a pretty penny from you.

[ladyjane]

Great email. You might be interested in the word petard.

Centuries ago when explosives were first being used in battle, a petard was used to knock down the gate to the city. The petard was made of iron and was leaned up against the gate. Explosives were set off and the petard caused the gate to fall inward into the city rather than outward onto the aggressors.

Because explosives were not stable sometimes they exploded prematurely and the aggressors were blown up and hoist on their own petard.

The word petard comes from Old French - the meaning is to break wind.

[RecallMoran]

I think I'm in love.

[SkyPilot]

She looks like she's trying to be 12 years old. Not a picture to inspire confidence.

Ya think?

[SkyPilot]

I think I'm in love.

Just kidding.

:^>

[Charlespg]

Damm

she's about eight kinds of ugly and all kinds of wrong

[razorback-bert]

I read all seven pages, the "Group of 88" are just trying to say they were speaking to the larger social issue campus life.

[aruanan]

"I, for one, did not think through all of the unintended consequences, nor did I believe almost a year later it would be dissected in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the subject of such acrimony," says Lee Baker, another associate professor of cultural of anthropology and chair of the Arts and Sciences Council.

Another way of saying it, "I was completely thoughtless in my kneejerk reaction and didn't bother to consider the consequences of going off half-cocked over something that happened to appeal to my prejudices, but, sheesh, give it up fellows, it's been almost a year later. Whoda thunk these creeps would still be criticizing me?"

[aruanan]

Is that a girl in that pic? Looks like a drunk-@ss freshman fool (guy that is).

I swear I saw this woman up on a street corner on the north side of Chicago yesterday.

[oldenuff2no]

DMZFrank.
I loved it!!!!!! You hit this one dead center.
There is a man you need to meet. His name is Ward Connerly. I think you guys would get along just great.

[tang-soo]

A seven page article and I never saw words like sorry, wrong orpologize. Reading the whole article sounded like a bomb-squad technician being interviewed by a reporter after blowing up a suspicious box that turned out to be a package of cookies,

"Yeah that's what we are trained for. That was a close one. That could have been a real bomb."

"But it wasn't. It was a box of cookies."

"But it could have been."

[SkyPilot]

A seven page article and I never saw words like sorry, wrong orpologize.

Those were my thoughts as well.

[RecallMoran]

Ooooooo gross! Nasty! I meant with DMZFrank for his awesome email. Excuse me while I go shower in boiling water. BTW, did we ever determine gender on your personal hero in the picture? (Kidding)

[Sue Perkick]

The GANG of 88 knows exactly what they were doing as do the rest of us who have been following it for the past year. And may they suffer the consequences for it.

[FlyVet]

I grew up in the 70's and I know that look. She's stoned out of her gourd.

[bvw]

Podehertz ends thusly:

They're fools at best and monsters at worst - and neither fools nor monsters are much troubled by attacks of conscience.

They are monsters. Modern day live-destroying monsters.

[Redleg Duke]

I see the engineering school is heavily represented here! s/

[StAnDeliver]

MAKE THEM PAY THE FAMILIES OUT OF THEIR OWN PAYCHECKS.