The Most Hated Professor in America (barf alert)

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

[Grampa Dave]

I want to take everyone of these loud mouth American Ba-athist over to Iraq and put them in with at least 100 Freed Iraqis who lost family members due to the support these American Ba-athists gave to the Soddomites. Then let them use their mantras of hate with the newly Freed Iraqis.

[Puppage]

And, the MOST BELOVED PROFESSOR......IRWIN COREY

[Rockitz]

...Mr. De Genova, a 35-year-old assistant professor of anthropology and Latino studies...

I have a thought. If he's only an assistant professor, he hasn't been tenured. After this episode, he probably won't be tenured and will drift aimlessly to lesser and lesser universities until he's teaching part time at some community college. This is a worse punishment than death for those in academia. Bwahahahahahaha!

[astounded]

This twerp sounds eerily similar to another well-known prevaricating arrested adolescent - the former occupant of the Oval Office. The veritable absence of content cloaked by the superfluous word usage has all the hallmarks of Clinton. Truly, disgusting. The unbounded arrogance is, shall we say, astounding.

[Dad was my hero]

No, it could have been jingoistic as nonpatriotic hysteria during wartime like "a million Mogadishus" and apparently he's trying to be clever all on his own.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The analogy between Mogadishu and Vietnam is that they were defeats for U.S. imperialism and U.S. military action against people in poor countries that had none of the sophisticated technology or weaponry that the U.S. was able to mobilize against them. The analogy between Mogadishu and Iraqis simply that there was an invasion of Somalia and there was an invasion of Iraq.

There are three countries that we fought in and abandoned without victory this century. There are several other countries that we won in. Here is a sampling of some countries that we won in and their GDP per capita:

Germany $26,600
Japan $28,000
Italy $25,000
Philippines $4,000
Puerto Rico $11,200
South Korea $19,400

The Philippines had been higher in the past, but there is still an obvious disconnect between it's standing and the other countries we have "occupied".

Here now are the GDP per capita of the three countries that "were defeats for U.S. imperialism and U.S. military action against people in poor countries":

Somalia $550
Vietnam $2,100
North Korea $1,000

Wow, shaming us capitalist, imperialist dogs has really paid off for them, hasn't it?

[Right Wing Professor]

Wow, shaming us capitalist, imperialist dogs has really paid off for them, hasn't it?

Nice stats. And given their oil wealth, if Iraq reconstruction goes at all well, they'll add to the trend.

What deGenova also has forgotten is the 'shaming' of the US at Mogadishu cost 1000 Somali lives. A million Mogadishus would exterminate the Somali people a hundred times over.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"I certainly was not expecting anything on the scale of this controversy. ...It so happens that a single journalist from a tabloid newspaper who was interested in scandalmongering was present at the event."

Leave it to a virulent anti-American marxist POS too blame a journalist rather than his idiotic, offensive, and traitorous comments.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"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."

I will see your NYC-style ass-beating and raise you a good ole fashioned Texas ass-whoopin!

[Jeff Head]

What this interview failed to touch on was his call for more soldiers to do what the Muslim Sgt. in the 101st did ... that is, frag their own. Those comments were even worse than the Mogadishu comment.

In my opinion, it was seditious and should be treated as such. I believe it fits this definition:

The U.S. Sedition Act
Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the military or naval forces of the United States or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both.

U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 2381

This individual needs to feel the weight and consequence of his actions ... Columbia can and should be a part of making that happen. It hasn't happened yet at all, and I hope and will continue to work to ensure that it does.

The Alumni and Congress are both involved, and I hope that a more and more significant portion of Columbia's donations and funding dry up until it does.

Winning Iraqi Freedom

Jeff

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Prof,

I think you are right about there being more than enough of a supply. Although shame would hang over his name from some, others would see it as defiance (of common sense) that he was still there, and take it as victory. Many times we all lose sight that there truely is an Extremist Left that cannot be compromised with, only humiliated and defeated.

There is a loud, and disingenuous, move by the Tim Robbins, Maddonnas, and Moores about the 1st Amendment. Most Americans realize that the said Amendment starts with the word "Congress" and has no relevance on their lack of adoration.

I go to Hollywoodhalfwits.com often, and since the Dixie Chicks example, I've been disappointed at the numbers of Celebs NOT offering foreign policy advice. They can loud mouths scream in Hollywood (and Academia) about it being unfair, but the majority just become frightened and silent.

Robbins even brought that up in his Presidential speech. You're right, lets get him!

[tracer]

I stand corrected. I simply must learn to think big, as in Texas!! 8~)

[Cicero]

He has seriously embarrassed the president of the university. Most likely, when he comes up for tenure, he will be refused on some other ground--not enough publications, the wrong sort of publications, whatever. They wouldn't want to confront the issue honestly, so they'll find some other reason to get rid of him.

He may still end up with a good job, however. Angela Davis and numerous other serious troublemakers have done very well in academia.

[Jeff Head]

Whoopin' ain't good enough here ... were well into stompin' territory.

[f.Christian]

Mogadishu was a metaphor for WW I which enabled the bosheviks.

"Bolshevik monopoly" (( aclu // nea // devilcrats )) ...

tyranny (( taliban // jihad )) ---

brainwashing (( conservatism // Truth )) ...

indoctrination (( liberalism // atheism // evolution // communism )) !

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Just as it's wrong to beat a little mongrel for yapping...

The development of a properly controlled scenario and the appropriate application of a short section of hose to the posterior of the aforementioned mongrel is precisely how one teaches the dog to be a good citizen.

One correctly applied spanking will make a dog a good and quiet citizen for life.

In the case of the Columbia professor, since he appears far less intelligent and far more obstinate than the average mongrel, I would recommend replacing the controlled situation with a chase down a main street and the short length of hose with a long handled coal shovel.

No more than fifty or sixty vigorous applications of shovel to empty skull should suffice for all but the most ineducable professor.

[ILBBACH]

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.

I've never heard it put so well!

BTW, Beethoven is better than Mozart.

[Right Wing Professor]

Beethoven is better than Mozart

Chacun a son gout. In any case, 'better' is an inadequate word to compare two very differently brilliant composers. And I've no doubt we could find plenty of FReepers who would claim JS Bach far surpasses both.

I like Mozart.

[ILBBACH]

Jingoistic?! as in..."No War in Iraq"...Jingoistic in that way?

JinGOistic - not - JinGListic

The first definition I have of a 'jingo' is: a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy...

Okay, so what's wrong with that? I'm a jingo - or jingoistic.

Well, I guess one lefty's jingo is another righty's patriot!

[The Old Hoosier]

My alma mater gets not a dime until this guy is gone.

Not to say they will get a dime anyway, but...