Posted on 09/17/2024 7:14:05 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The remarkable thing about Russell Rickford is that there is nothing extraordinary about him.
The Cornell University prof gained notoriety in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7 by declaring that he found the terror attack “exhilarating.”
Afterward, Rickford apologized for his “horrible choice of words.”
After the controversy over his warm words for Oct. 7, Rickford took a “voluntary leave” and is now back in the classroom.
What’s outrageous isn’t that he hasn’t been disciplined by the school, but that he fits in so seamlessly.
If Rickford, a history professor, went somewhere else to ply his wares, he’d in all likelihood be replaced by someone with equally pernicious views.
What are the odds that Cornell is going to find — or want — a more fair-minded, down-the-middle instructor for its “Socialism in America” course?
Elite colleges are suffused with a deeply anti-Western ideology that defines the humanities, and makes the likes of Rickford more the norm than the fringe.
Cornell faculty members joined in the anti-Israel encampment at the school last spring, and a diversity and inclusion officer expressed admiration for the Palestinian “resistance” upon the occasion of the Oct. 7 attack, hailing the struggle “against settle[r] colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, [of] which the United States is the model.”
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Upstate New York has been economically suffering for many decades.
It does not need loony professors scaring off potential employers.
A loony professor damages the reputation of the university and the prospects of its graduates.
Cornell is like Stamford and others, high quality colleges swimming with Leftist professors.
Cornell University is no different today than it was on October 6th of 2023.
Funny thing is, I don’t blame him nor the University. The Alumni enables it through funding. That irks me. (Looking directly at You Ann.
When colleges started making money hand over fist by opening to doors to kids who needed remedial classes to teach them to read, the booming business required them to hire people who did NOT belong in positions teaching anyone about anything. I’m guessing that’s how the school got Rickford.
What’s outrageous isn’t that he hasn’t been disciplined by the school, but that he fits in so seamlessly.
I find getting shot at exhilarating, too - but getting SHOT raises it to a new, different level!
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