WTW: White Trash Professor
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:00 am by Preston Taylor Holmes
You may or may not have heard the story of William Patterson University Womens’ Studies Professor Arlene Hopp Scala. She is one of the many cancerous educational tumors currently festering beneath the skin of American colleges and universities.
Arlene, or Mr. Scala, as she likes to be called around campus, thought it would be just swell to send out an unsolicited e-mail to a variety of other university staff promoting an “upcoming viewing and discussion of the film ‘Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House.’ The e-mail referred to the film as a ‘lesbian relationship story.’”
University employee Jihad Daniel (nice name) didn’t appreciate the e-mail.
“These are perversions,” Mr. Daniel wrote. “The absence of God in higher education brings on confusion. That is why in these classes the creator of the heavens and the universe is never mentioned.”
It was quite reasonable for Mr. Daniel to request not to be sent any further emails. However, because he didn’t properly celebrate Scala’s schoolhouse diversity, she felt “threatened.”
“Mr. Daniel’s message to me sounds threatening and in violation of our university nondiscrimination policy. I don’t want to feel threatened at my place of work when I send out announcements about events that address lesbian issues,” she said in an e-mail message.
What a waste of oxygen. That is such a typical leftist response – I feel threatened – silence this opposing viewpoint at once! It interrupts me while I celebrate diversity!
And what did the university do? Predictably, they’ve reprimanded the employee instead of the teacher.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit group based in Philadelphia that is assisting Mr. Daniel in his fight with the university, calls the action taken against him “absurd” and an infringement of his free-speech rights.
“William Paterson University is knowingly disregarding the U.S. Constitution. No one here was ‘harassed’ or ‘threatened,’ as defined by the law. The university simply strongly disliked a student’s point of view,” said Greg Lukianoff, FIRE’s director of legal and public advocacy.
Mr. Daniel will soon learn that today’s college campuses are no place for free speech. Professors like Mr. Scala encourage a diversity of viewpoints, as long as they all parallel her own. She and her ilk need to cram it so far up their collective asses that it comes out their mouth.
Here are your White Trash Wednesday bloggers….
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:21 am
I couldn’t agree more Preston, here’s to a little more diversity of viewpoints, and a little less silencing any oppostion that doesn’t suit your outlook.
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:31 am
Wow, another person named “Jihad”??? I thought I was the only one…
So this is what it sounds like when doves cry…
August 3rd, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Say what ya’ want about Arlene, but my sources at Patterson tell me that she’s the originator of the classic sapho pick-up line, “I’ve got a mind made for business, and a nose made for face sitting.”
August 3rd, 2005 at 3:28 pm
Wow. That was icky. But somehow still funny.
And don’t worry Jihad. That other Jihad can’t hold a candle to you. Because you’re brutally insane.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:39 pm
Kevin- Please be careful about using “nose” and “face” so loosely. It hits too close to home.
Preston- You don’t happen to have her e-mail aaddress do you? I was hoping to get her expert opinion on the diversity of a few posts I’ve recently written.
Thanks.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:55 pm
All it takes is a quick google search to get her e-mail address, Buckley. I won’t write her personally, because, what’s the point? Even if I mildly disagree with her viewpoint, it will be called “hate speech” and she’ll send the campus police down here after me for not following her orders to celebrate diversity.
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:00 pm
“Even if I mildly disagree with her viewpoint, it will be called “hate speechâ€? ”
Valid point.