Posted on 05/02/2021 7:40:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A California professor who confronted a student about his view that police officers are heroes has taken a leave of absence.
The adjunct professor was recorded arguing with Braden Ellis, a 19-year-old student, at Cypress College in California. The recording and transcript of the Zoom class were first published by The Daily Wire.
“Cypress College takes great pride in fostering a learning environment for students where ideas and opinions are exchanged as a vital piece of the educational journey. Our community fully embraces this culture; students often defend one another’s rights to express themselves freely, even when opinions differ. Any efforts to suppress free and respectful expression on our campus will not be tolerated,” Marc Posner, the school’s director of communications, said in a statement.
“The adjunct professor will be taking a leave of absence for the duration of her assignment at Cypress College. This was her first course at Cypress and she had previously indicated her intention to not return in the fall,” Posner added. “We are reviewing the full recording of the exchange between the adjunct professor and the student and will address it fully in the coming days.”
After Ellis gave a presentation on cancel culture to the class, the unidentified professor used the question and answer session to confront him about his views about police. Ellis alleged that the police departments in the United States stem “from people in the South wanting to capture runaway slaves.”
When another classmate interjected that police officers should not be heroes who appear in kids’ shows, Ellis said he disagreed.
“I think cops are heroes and they have to have a difficult job. But we have to—” Ellis said before the professor interrupted, asking, “all of them?”
“I’d say a good majority of them. You have bad people in every business and every—” Ellis responded, before the professor interrupted again.
“A lot of police officers have committed atrocious crimes and have gotten away with it and have never been convicted of any of it,” the professor said. “And I say [it] as a person that has family members who are police officers.”
One of the largest surveys on freedom of speech on college campuses released last year found that 60 percent of student “can recall at least one time during their college experience when they did not share their perspective for fear of how others would respond.” A sizable minority, 42 percent, believe their college would not defend them in case of a controversy over a view they expressed.
Moral to the story - our Education system is loaded with violent leftist scum, who are protected by our judicial system.
I’d really like to see who this educated idiot professor calls when he gets into a traffic accident or someone breaks into his home, robs him on the street... Ill winds blow into every life, when it does, this ingrate will call 911 just like everybody else. May there come a day where cancel-culture backfire on people like this guy... where he call 911 and gets no answer!
Eric Clanton had been linked by police to violent assaults with a metal bike lock during a “free speech” rally in Berkeley on April 15, 2017. Before his arrest, Clanton had been “outed” online, on the website 4chan, as someone who used a bike lock to strike a man in the head. The assault was captured in a video clip that drew widespread attention and anger after it was posted on YouTube. Wednesday, Clanton was supposed to have had his preliminary hearing, where a judge decides whether there’s enough evidence in a case for it to move ahead to trial. Instead, there was no hearing, and information about Clanton’s plea deal became available online (Berkeleyside).
According to Alameda County Superior Court records, Clanton entered a “no contest” plea Wednesday to one misdemeanor battery charge. The felony charges against him were dismissed, and an allegation that he had caused serious bodily injury was stricken. A misdemeanor charge that Clanton wore a mask during the commission of the crime also was dropped.
That’s when she shut the conversation down..When the student asked how she would protect her family from home invasion and she refused to answer......
Time to be outing these teachers and canceling them.
Heroes are people who rise above the norm for what is expected if them. So some cops are heros; but all cops aren’t heros — any more than all soldiers, all firemen, all former POW’s, etc.
That was an adjunct bully. Nothing less.
Heroes are people who rise above the norm for what is expected if them. So some cops are heros; but all cops aren’t heros — any more than all soldiers, all firemen, all former POW’s, etc.
Adjuncts are disposable, none of the protections real faculty have. Let’s see the college do the same next time a tenured professor is involved.
I received my two year degree from Cypress College, which I understand was invaded by liberals a couple of decades ago.
When I took a political course my instructor was a conservative who was skeptical of government, and was black. My my my.
Faryha Salim is an adjunct communications instructor at Cypress College, Fullerton College, Cerritos College, El Camino College and Santiago Canyon College in the south Los Angeles and Orange County area. So even though she may not be teaching at Cypress college now, she is probably teaching courses at other junior colleges in the area.
Ellis alleged that the police departments in the United States stem “from people in the South wanting to capture runaway slaves.”
I can't find the article with the video of the conversation, but I think it was the teacher, not the student, who stated this about the history of police depts in the U.S.
Yes, it is a job, no more.
About 15 years ago, one of my Sunday School guys went to Cypress College. He took an economics course from an tenured instructor named Solomon Namala. The instructor was a socialist who indoctrinated his students. He pushed the progressive website commondreams.org and said that there was no reason to fear China. Truly disgusting stuff.
Policemen rise well above the norm for what is expected of an average citizen.
Policemen (with few exceptions) are heroes.
Regards,
The percentage of bad cops is way lower than the percentage of bad professors.
I am in awe of cops, firemen, EMT’s, our military and all those who respond in times of crisis. The horrors they witness would haunt me forever. My gratitude and prayers are with them all.
We need more pushback along this line of reasoning. Next time the "few bad people" argument is made, relate it to teachers.
Talk about all the teachers who were arrested for sexually abusing their students and ask YOUR teacher how those actions make the teacher feel about what people think about them. Do people look at them and wonder if they are abusing students, too? Do they want their professional reputation tainted by the predatory teachers in their field? Should we defund teaching?
Are teachers to never be thought of as "heroes" on TV shows because some of them have molested their students? How many pedophile teachers have gotten away with it?
And then sit back and watch the righteous indignation flow.
-PJ
Woke taking an ass kicking corporations even taking a beating over it logic seeping into skulls.
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