"I was surprised to see him show up at the classroom, and ... I was wondering if it was appropriate for him, one, to be there, and two, to want to be in the class .... I didn't feel it was the time or place to discuss it, but since he was physically there, I reacted in the way that I did. ... Yes [I felt intimidated] .... I thought ... he'd have a clear understanding of what any given professor, whether it's me or anybody else, can or can't say in a classroom." [More]Enjoy the fruits, academia. If any of you really studied history, you'd know useful intellectual idiots are expendable. Heck, in some regimes, just wearing glasses has been cause enough for a death sentence.
Assuming this story is an accurate account, why didn't you tell him, in front of everyone, to get the **** out of your classroom?
Again, assuming it's accurate, I have a tough time feeling sympathy for such a wimp.
[Via Michael G]
So, once again, the "man with a gun" is a thug cop. What was that, Sarah, about the cops being the only ones fit to carry guns?
ReplyDeleteIn Berlin, before they got their Enabling act, the Nazi SA would stand on street corners, 4-20 at a time and bellow out, "Things go twice as well, when Jewish blood spurts from the knife!", and "We'll have the Enabling Act or the streets will run with blood!". Professors, doctors, lawyers(gag) business professinals looked embarrasedly away, but did nothing, nor signaled any protest. The ole' Prof. here is just playing his part, and when the arrests begin, he'll have a part to play as well.
ReplyDelete"[L]ooters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket."
ReplyDelete--Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
The sheriff should have been removed from the campus by Campus Police and the professor should have told to him to go fuck himself.
ReplyDeleteHad that been me, the sheriff could be damn sure it wasn't "over". It would be over when I said it was over.
sonsofbitches like that want to make this a third world banana republic they need to understand the ramifications.