Vanderbilt professor outrages Confederate progeny

The Washington Times ^ | December 3, 2002 | Robert Stacy McCain

[headsonpikes]

"Chuck you, Farley."

Says it all.

[Constitution Day]

(smiles)

[WhiskeyPapa]

uh oh.....

[elbucko]

I mean, executing all Confederate soldiers?

We didn't execute any German soldiers at the end of World War II..

Gives pause for thought about the academic left.

[laotzu]

One may argue that my ancestors were uncivilized or barbaric, but; our village chiefs never sold us into slavery.

[Malcolm]

Most of the southern soldiers DID get the death penalty, and I'm sure in the years that followed, those that survived wished that they had also died in that war. I wouldn't respect any foreigner's opinions on that, no matter what they were. That war was a mistake and those who made that mistake paid dearly. No need to revisit that just to opine that even more punishment was warrented. Only a person who believes in unforgiveness could hold such views. Therefore, they're worthless.....

[schaketo]

Get a rope!

[elbucko]

...Fulbright was one of the most rabid anti-American, pro-Communist, Stalin apologists who ever lived..

Yes he was. And so few Arkansans, let alone Americans, know of Fulbright's traitorous activities especially while a United States Senator.

[Cicero]

The people at Vanderbilt who hired this guy were morons. Regretably, Vanderbilt has been trying to use infusions of money to catch up with the Ivy League and Berkeley. Now they're going to catch a little flak for it.

[cajungirl]

Oh, I think we ought to ignore him {grandpa rolling over in his grave sound here,,}

[TopQuark]

Jonathan Farley

Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
Vanderbilt University
Office: Stevenson Center 1407
Phone: (615) 343-4120
Email: farley@math.vanderbilt.edu

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He is far from a moron: he's done some pretty good work, judging by the journals where he has published. His supervisors were Birkhoff and Priestley, top people in the field.

He is not a moron but surely is a leftist extremist.

[toddst]

I believe this would be a good time to introduce a bill in the Tennessee Legislature bringing back dueling. I have a suspicion there are perhaps some good Tennessee decendants of Confederate soldiers that just might decide to challenge friend Jonathan Farley to learn something about that good Southern tradition.

[Clara Lou]

What a jackass.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

It is fitting that this moron is a Fulbright scolar. J. William Fulbright was one of the most rabid anti-American, pro-Communist, Stalin apologists who ever lived.

Don't forget his role as mentor to young Wm. J. Clinton.

[ArcLight]

Farley's comments suffer from a common flaw of leftist rhetoric--a brain-dead extremism that distorts the truth even when the truth is on the leftists' side.

It's not enough to state accurately that the Rebs were traitors who sought to demolish the Union in order to preserve their "right" to buy and sell black people like cattle. That's a severe enough indictment for anybody, except knuckleheaded lefties who must find some way to equate the Confederacy with Nazi Germany, because that's a leftie's idea of the ultimate evil.

Of course, the Confederates were most emphatically NOT Nazis or anything nearly as bad. They didn't want to exterminate blacks; merely to own us and force us to work for them.

I wish Farley could have been more rational and thoughtful in making his point, because I agree with him to a considerable degree. This Lost Cause crap is some of the stupidest codswallop imaginable. There was nothing noble about the Southern cause. Nothing. Not a blessed thing. They were fighting to preserve an evil political and economic system. E-V-I-L, as in "axis of." The destruction of the Confederacy was the best day's work the US military ever did, next to dusting Hitler and Tojo. And frankly, if Grant and Sherman had left the leaders of the Confederacy festooning every oak tree between Washington and Richmond, it would have been no more than that lot deserved.

[SandfleaCSC]

I sent him my favorite Che picture:

[boothead]

Did his Mother have any children that lived???????