Professor says "F*%$ you, Republicans"
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therightfangirlAs an officer at my university's College Republicans chapter, this type of story almost makes me nauseous. A professor at the University of Iowa responded to a mass email sent out by the CRs with an email that simply said "F*%$ you, Republicans." This is someone who is paid by the tax payers of Iowa and probably has had conservative students at one time or another.
Here is the full story:
http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2011/04/20/university-of-iowa-professor-tells-college-republicans-to-%E2%80%9Cf%E2%80%9D-off/
I find her "apologies" even MORE insulting than her initial statement. Thoughts?
Here is the full story:
http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2011/04/20/university-of-iowa-professor-tells-college-republicans-to-%E2%80%9Cf%E2%80%9D-off/
I find her "apologies" even MORE insulting than her initial statement. Thoughts?
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Date: 2011-04-20 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-20 09:25 pm (UTC)I don't have much of anything else to say, but I freaking LOVE that the College Republicans are going to have an "Animal Rights BBQ" and that the professor's offended by that. (Though I guess she's just kind of grasping at straws at that point in that particular fauxpology email reply.)
Ohhhhh nooooo, the College Republican called the professor by her first name. Somebody call the cops.
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Date: 2011-04-21 03:18 pm (UTC)That was my reaction too.
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Date: 2011-04-20 11:04 pm (UTC)Oh, no, I didn't! Heh.no subject
Date: 2011-04-20 11:50 pm (UTC)Her "apology" is the one that kills me about the whole thing. Not that she sent this back to them (professionalism yay!), but that she replied with "apologize for any affront to anyone’s delicate sensibilities".
Delicate sensibilities. So we're being sensitive to her obvious correctness by being offended when she screams obscenities at us. Right. Sure. Uh-huh.
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Date: 2011-04-21 05:22 am (UTC)Her apologies stank of the "its not MY fault, its YOUR fault" liberal mentality. Also, I hate those "if I offended anyone" type non-apologies. Either take responsibility for your actions and apologize truly or don't bother. Again, this just ties into the "its never MY fault" thinking, because she lashes out and blames the victims for "inciting" her.
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Date: 2011-04-21 05:58 am (UTC)It's our fault for sending out a message, that was completely approved by the college, that they had no idea who it would be sent to outside of the mass list, and somehow that message was personally damaging to her because we did something else that pissed her off, and this message only served to throw it in her face! AND WE DID IT ON PURPOSE, OBVIOUSLY. UGH. So much dislike.
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Date: 2011-04-21 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-07 07:22 pm (UTC)This, though? Is not a legitimate argument.
Sorry for commenting almost a year later.
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Date: 2011-04-20 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-21 12:12 am (UTC)I keep forgetting liberal logic is akin to underpants gnome business logic, to carry your South Park metaphor. Heh.
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Date: 2011-04-21 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-21 01:08 am (UTC)Sorry, it's just I go to the University of Idaho, and it's pretty much delegated to UI everywhere on campus (there's even a wine made down the road called Ewe Eye) and I had to do a double take, all 'WAIT. I THOUGHT THIS WAS IOWA. SAY IT AIN'T SO!'.
But yeah.
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Date: 2011-04-21 12:50 am (UTC)What gets me is that even in today's world of websites, Twitter, video cams and all the rest - where you know nothing you say or do can stay hidden - even then, they cannot help but spew their hatred, even when they know they will be caught and exposed!
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Date: 2011-04-21 03:16 am (UTC)Oh, wait a second... :p
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Date: 2011-04-21 10:40 am (UTC)[sigh]
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Date: 2011-04-21 03:28 pm (UTC)She very clearly outlines the contents of the email as "extremely offensive, nearly rising to the level of obscenity." She's not even arguing for herself or her reasons, she's still trying to attack the messages within the original letter! All she wants to do is argue the issues, not the fact that she completely bashed a sect of students. She wants to be able to debate with students-not act like an adult and a "example."
I thought liberals were supposed to be open minded.
"I do apologize for my intemperate language, but the message you all sent out was extremely disturbing and offensive."
Translation: I'm sorry I was stupid enough to leave my university creditials in the email, but I am excused because what you snot-nosed pigs wrote is just WRONG.
Seriously, professors have been fired for so much less than this. How does this woman still have a job at this university? She'd be out on her rear end if I had the power. You can't debase students like this. You should NOT be allowed to preach your ideals (as the woman so clearly does) as radically as you want and then condem others for DARE having an opinion and possessing the skill and advantages to share it with others. I sincerely believe that it's teachers like this who don't teach because they want people to learn, but they teach because they see their podium as a pedestal where they can spout off whatever they want. And because we pay an arm and a leg for that class, we HAVE to sit there and listen to it. It's a total power trip for people like this woman, and it makes me sick because it almost comes to the point where I don't blame people for not wanting to go to college because of this. What's wrong with our educational system are teachers like THIS woman.
/rant
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Date: 2011-04-21 04:33 pm (UTC)Whatever happened to, "Please take me off your mailing list, thanks?" Or blocking e-mails you don't want? No, "Dr. Lewin," a wackademic who's probably a less-charming version of Ben Stiller's mom in those Focker movies (given that it's Babs Streisand, that's saying a lot), is an angry '60s red diaper doper baby who feels entitled to spout forth what's always been the bee in her bonnet. Work e-mail is not the place to do it. I'd be in big trouble if I issued the f-bomb at someone who used the mail group to post yet another urban legend debunked years ago on Snopes.com.
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Date: 2011-04-21 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-22 04:29 am (UTC)I mean:
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Date: 2011-04-24 12:44 am (UTC)fixed it for you. they've ruined so many good words like progress, liberalism, justice... should I continue?
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Date: 2011-04-26 03:35 pm (UTC)