The Most Hated Professor in America (barf alert)

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) | 4/18/03 | Thomas Bartlett

[Right Wing Professor]

Arrogant and unrepentant, a perfect case study in the sense of entitlement of a typical radical academic. Note that even though he admits he said all the things that have gotten him in trouble, the hapless reporter who simply reported them is a 'devious yellow journalist'.

How anyone can send their kids to this upper Manhattan sewer is beyond me.

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Sounds like he's trying to pull a Dixie Chicks on us.

[martin_fierro]

This guy runs a close second.

[Right Wing Professor]

Except at least the Dixie Chicks have some talent. All this guy knows how to do is cloak juvenile left-wing politics in postmodern jargon and spew it out to gullible radical-chic students.

[Revolting cat!]

Arrogant, unrepentant and unintelligent, I might add. While he speaks in calm paragraphs, a plus, the substance of what he has to say is awfully thin and predictable. Nothing but a recital of leftist talking points. Lame and boring!

[headsonpikes]

"Arrogant and unrepentant..."

Don't tell me you're at all surprised.

New Soviet Man is shameless.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'd say he is stoopid. Just so my point is clear.

[WaveThatFlag]

No, he was speaking metaphorically, don't you get it. Mogadishu was a metaphor for WW I which enabled the bosheviks.

[jimt]

I wish Mr DeGenerate "a million San Jacintos".

[backhoe]

-Terror Teacher- Columbia's Nicholas De Genova message of "Death to America!"--

[SkyPilot]

It so happens that a single journalist from a tabloid newspaper who was interested in scandalmongering was present at the event.

That's riggghhht. Hey Mr. 50 cent word--this is called "Guilt Projection."

[Gefreiter]

RW Professor is right on. DeGenova admits he said these things, but deflects and evades as much as possible by trying to focus on larger anti-war or free speech issues.

Alot of people opposed this war, but managed to express themselves in civilized ways.

And besides, DeGenova's observations on Vietnam and Somalia become increasingly fantastic over time. Total disconnect with hard reality.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

As a Right Wing Professor, don't you think it would be better to let this pretentious, back peddling spinster stay there and teach? I mean, he clearly has received and incorporated the ultra Left's talking points on "not wanting our troops to die" and actually being the only people in America smart enough to protect them, but he isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he and I can see in his remarks in his letter to the student newspaper and this that he is destined to open that door right into his face yet again.

What I'm saying is this, don't play into the Left's claims that this is McCarthist or a witch hunt. Let him stay. This shadow will never leave him and he will not persuede students. De Genova will be a permanent reminder of the radicalism passing for Academia in America.

Bring it on! De Genova for Academic Tenure!

[tsali1927]

" I think it is healthy to create conversation and controversy" Does the good Prof support using the word "N----R" to create contorversy.
Since he says that he mispoke--- did he support Trent Lott who admitted 7 times that he mispoke?

[Grampa Dave]

Nicholas De Genova is a leading Ba-athist Professor at Columbia. He supported the mass murders, rapes and imprisonment of the innocent Iraqis by his Ba-athist buddies under his buddy the Soddomite.

[rj45mis]

This jackass has no apologies whatsoever for what he said or meant to imply. The only remorse he may experience, if any, would be the justifiable consequence of getting his ass fired for his hateful comments.

[babyface00]

" There is an impulse to jingoistic, patriotic hysteria during wartime that will seek to discredit the antiwar movement"

Jingoistic?! as in...

"No war for oil"

"Jobs, Not War"

"Support our troops! Oppose U.S. foreign policy"

"No War in Iraq"

...Jingoistic in that way?

[tracer]

Although I would not bother or even be inclined to do so, it would seem that an old-fashioned, NYC-style ass-beating would be a far more economical and effective approach to the "problem" of an arrogant, socialist bastard who delight in yelling "Fire!!" in a crowded theater.

That said, it would prove to be even more economical and effective to ignore this clymer the way that a yapping little mutt is ignored. Just as it's wrong to beat a little mongrel for yapping, it's not worthwhile or even right to take action against a socialist traitor who simply is doing that which he has been programmed to do.

Then, again, I would be hard pressed to cut this clown any slack for "mogadishuing" within earshot of someone who serves our Nation in uniform or has lost someone who was doing so.

Let's face it, this puke has been playing a good many loyal Americans like a fiddle and now has the satisfaction of laughing at those he considers to be inferior to his "enlightened" little self......

[Desecrated]

"George Bush and his war cabinet are invested in needlessly wasting the lives of people who have absolutely no interest in perpetrating this war and should not be there."

I suggest he ask the troops who were there what they were fighting for and if the cause is just. Oh, never mind, it's eaiser to make blanket statements and never back them up with any substance. I forgot he was a liberal...

[Right Wing Professor]

As a Right Wing Professor, don't you think it would be better to let this pretentious, back peddling spinster stay there and teach?

If he were just one, I'd agree. But almost all campuses have an oversupply; and Columbia in particular (I except the science departments) looks like the US Wing of the Baath party.

I think if we fire deGenova and four or five others, the left might re-discover that academic freedom , like any freedom, comes with responsibility. And that having discounted academic freedom when persecuting conservative faculty, or those who fell foul of feminists and other identity politics types, they can't immediately wish for it back when the boot's suddenly on the other foot.