Bush-bashing professor has Fresno State scrambling to keep its donors

nypost ^ | 04/20/2018 | Lukas Mikelionis

[ChicagoConservative27]

A Fresno State professor who called the late Barbara Bush “racist” soon after her death Tuesday, and said she was glad “the witch is dead,” continues to face fallout as donors mull ceasing donations to the institution.

Randa Jarrar, an English professor at the school (also known as California State University at Fresno), sparked outrage Tuesday just hours after the former first lady died at age 92, writing a number of tweets attacking Bush and the family.

“Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F*** outta here with your nice words,” the professor tweeted. “I’m happy the witch is dead. Can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million Iraqis have.”

Jarrar, a tenured professor, boasted on social media that because she has tenure, she won’t be fired from her job. She’s currently on leave this semester and was reportedly traveling overseas.

[kearnyirish2]

She is large and in-charge - a “whole lotta lovin’”

[Verginius Rufus]

If she had confined her diatribe to GWB she wouldn’t be in any trouble at all...the remarks wouldn’t even have attracted attention. He is the one she hates most of all (followed by his father).

[Iron Munro]

She's either a muslim or a muslim sympathizer.

Randa Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago to an Egyptian & Greek mother and a Palestinian father.
She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt.
After the Gulf War in 1991, her family moved back to the US, living in the New York area when she was 13.
Jarrar studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin,
and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan.
She has taught College Writing, Creative Writing, and Arab-American literature.
"Fresno State's a majority minority school," she describes. "Many of my undergraduates are brown: Latinos, Asian Americans, Muslim Americans.
They're first generation college students. Or they're children of migrant workers. Or they work full time, and parent."

On April 17, 2018, on the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, Jarrar described her as "an amazing racist" and boasted that she will
"never be fired" for her harsh words, because she had tenure at Fresno State University.
Jarrar responded to condemnatory replies by saying "I'm happy the witch is dead".
She was widely criticized for her actions, though these tweets can no longer be viewed as the account is now private.
Fresno State president Joseph Castro responded to widespread public outrage, saying "“Professor Jarrar’s expressed personal views and commentary
are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view".

[Thibodeaux]

The Sarah Lawrence board collectively pats themselves on the back for making the decision to promote diversity. She did precisely what she was educated for

[FLT-bird]

My eyes have been raped. *hurl*

[elcid1970]

If donor money starts to dry up, then the Pali pig is outta there. It’s about the do-re-mi & nothing else.

Really can’t imagine the board saying, “Screw you, donors! We don’t need your f***ing money and she’s staying right where she is!!!”

Nope, can’t picture it.

[originalbuckeye]

I believe her hatred of Mrs Bush stems from the fact that GHWB took us into Iraq and GWB went back there, too. If this is the caliber of Profs at Fresno State, I would recommend that NO ONE allow their children to be ‘educated’ there.

[from occupied ga]

Yep. Zero Mostel in drag.

Zero Mostel although somewhat heavy, was never as overweight as this porker. Plus he was better looking.

WOULD LAZ HIT IT?

[Iron Munro]

[SmokingJoe]

Oh my God!
What a fat ugly cow!
No surprise she is so full of hate. She hates her horribly grotesque body so she lashes out at everybody and everything. Sad individual who is going to end her days sad, lonely and unloved by anyone.

[rolling_stone]

fresno is very conservative and many alumni are taking this serious including threats to boycott their beloved football team fresno state...letters are flooding the administration.

[Fellow Traveler]

Laz would hit that, with a 105mm howitzer.

[SmokingJoe]

Does she ever stop eating?

[madison10]

No, she is white. She is very, very, very “fluffy.”

[Magnatron]

“Fat, dumb, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

— Dean Wormer

[Catmom]

Who is she sitting on?

[oldbrowser]

Free speech has it’s limit’s when you are representing someone else. She is besmirching the reputation of her employer.

[dforest]

Muzzie, big fat gross muzzie.

[Tijeras_Slim]

She is a most eloquent argument for the burkha.

[WayneS]

When push comes to shove, dollars trump tenure.