Enough To Piss Off Pope Benedict?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Some people have it that what happened to Alan Dershowitz at a lecture at Bowling Green University is calling a Jew a Nazi. I suppose it depends on how fascist you think Nazis were.

But on the face of it, calling a Jew a Nazi is enough to piss off the Pope. This one especially.

What Frontpage Magazine had on it.

And a long list of links from The American Muslim. A lot of the titles look defensive, reactionary.

[Sundae]

I have no idea what this is about.
And after reading the links I still have no idea.

But the parts that stood out for me were:

At every school I have visited over the last 15 years – more than 300 in all – there are entire departments in the Liberal Arts divisions of these colleges exclusively devoted to non-academic activities and dedicated in particular to indoctrinating students in the ideologies of tenured radicals.

Crikey. America must now be over-run with indoctrinated radical students. I have no idea how Bush managed to hold out against them for 2 elections in the same time-frame.

The American Studies professor was also there and shouted out from the audience something to the effect that I made too much money. “If you had my talents, maybe you might earn as much,” I retorted to the obvious pleasure of the students who had invited me and who were the real targets of the attacks on my presence.
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“Eighty percent of the school budget is salaries,” I said. “You make between $60,000 and $100,000 a year. You teach on average two courses and spend six hours a week in class. You work eight months out of the year and have four months paid vacation. And every seven years you get ten months paid vacation. If you are really as concerned about the working class as you pretend, why don’t you volunteer to teach four courses and twelve hours a week and lower the tuition costs for these kids?”

Nice! Come into my workplace, tell me I earn too much - although if I had better skills I'd earn more - and put the burden for the education for the poor on my shoulders personally. Yup, that'll get me onside.

He may have a point. But it's couched in such knee-jerk, overblown terms that it sets my teeth on edge. I say the same about Michael Moore.

[Trilby]

hm. I go to a state school (right here in flyover Ohio, too) and the students there are pretty durn conservative (much to my dismay). I have only observed one 'professor' (term used lightly) try to 'indoctrinate' (lightly, again) students and he was a rabid right-winger. I know Bowling Green--Shawnee prolly does, too. It's in a red area; I doubt the professors are this radical and I doubt the students buy it. Sounds like sour grapes, the whole thing.

[SteveDallas]

Education is labor-intensive. Any university that isn't spending the biggest chunk of its budget on salaries is doing something wrong.

[Clodfobble]

The American Studies professor was also there and shouted out from the audience something to the effect that I made too much money.

Well at least we know they're not being indoctrinated in manners or maturity. If you heckle a public speaker, their comeback is allowed to be as untrue as is necessary to sufficiently insult you into shutting up. Just ask any standup comedian.

[Sundae]

Okay, I concede that one. I've heard some great heckle put-downs.

[footfootfoot]

Well better to be pissed off than pissed on...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Well better to be pissed off than pissed on...

Safer around live mikes, too. There are definitions to the phrase "piss and moan" you'd rather not experience, I'm sure.

Dershowitz isn't the only one catching this sort of thing, or volleying it back. Check D'Souza's Letters To A Young Conservative.