The left Should Not Be Allowed To Teach In American Schools

[SimonDoom]

Incidentally, another ten seconds of research would have revealed that the prof has been placed on administrative leave as a result of the comments.

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-...tics-kamala-harris-roger-marshall-kris-kobach

It's nice to see somebody did some fact-checking. I did too after I saw this, and it's real -- to some extent. It's been reported by a number of sources, and the University of Kansas has issued a statement indicating that the statement occurred in Journalism Professor David Guth's class, and that he's been placed on administrative leave. That seems appropriate to me.

I hope everyone would agree that his statement was not appropriate. If a nearly identical joking statement were made by a conservative white male professor to the effect that women who supported Kamala Harris should be shot, most woman in his class would complain that he threatened violence and created a hostile environment, and he obviously would be disciplined, and that would be the right result. The same speech standards should apply to all regardless of viewpoint.

At the same time, the Gateway Pundit article should be faulted for its bad journalism. It offered no sources, and it failed to indicate the University of Kansas's actions in response to this professor.

 

[DeluxAuto]

the Gateway Pundit article should be faulted for its bad journalism

The OP is a gullible idiot and no matter how many times we admonish him for using a fake news source, he continues to use them. He's a closeted masochist.

 

[SimonDoom]

The OP is a gullible idiot and no matter how many times we admonish him for using a fake news source, he continues to use them. He's a closeted masochist.

It's a fake news source, I agree, but in this case there is truth to the story. It's disturbing that statements like these are being made in university classrooms, even if the universities end up dealing with them appropriately.

 

[Rebel5soul]

It's a fake news source, I agree, but in this case there is truth to the story. It's disturbing that statements like these are being made in university classrooms, even if the universities end up dealing with them appropriately.

The Gateway Pundit is NOT a fake news source. They dive into opinion pieces and subjects that have more than one point of view, the fact that you, or anyone else, may disagree with that view does not relegate them to "Fake News."

Looking at the time stamps on the publications it appears that UK responded quickly to the "professor's" utterances. So before you start making silly utterances of your own, check the time lines.

There is a reason I put "professor" in quotes, I surmise he's an 'adjunct' professor. A hired hand so that the real tenured professors can sit on their asses and collect their inflated salaries. The 'adjuncts' are easily disposable, cheap, commodities.

 

[ll74]

The Gateway Pundit is NOT a fake news source. They dive into opinion pieces and subjects that have more than one point of view, the fact that you, or anyone else, may disagree with that view does not relegate them to "Fake News."

Looking at the time stamps on the publications it appears that UK responded quickly to the "professor's" utterances. So before you start making silly utterances of your own, check the time lines.

There is a reason I put "professor" in quotes, I surmise he's an 'adjunct' professor. A hired hand so that the real tenured professors can sit on their asses and collect their inflated salaries. The 'adjuncts' are easily disposable, cheap, commodities.

GP is biased bullshit

 

[rainsol]

Poor white guys

Seriously deficient sentence but what would you expect from a bot

 

[ll74]

Seriously deficient sentence but what would you expect from a bot

It explains the thread..
You wouldn't get it

You never have

 

[Rebel5soul]

GP is biased bullshit

GP is most certainly biased, no one denies that. But MSNBC is 'nothing but the facts mam', right?

If you don't know how to winnow the chaff then you're just another sucker for whatever preacher is running the church you're worshiping at.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Most everyone, all decent and good people, should agree that this professor's statement was offensive and inappropriate. Regardless of which candidate you support.
There should be no argument there.

On the subject of "indoctrination" we have seen multiple examples of the o.p. condemning professors for "indoctrination" merely for stating that GLBT people, and people of color, deserve to be treated with decency and respect, and for teaching about the Holocaust and Martin Luther King. There is a HUGE difference! Obviously the former should be condemned. However, the latter should be taught everywhere and most certainly should NOT be condemned!

While I do most certainly believe Trump is a grave threat to our country, or freedoms, our democracy, and our economy, if I was a professor, I would be doing a disservice to publicly state this. It should be the job of a professor to tell students HOW to think CRITICALLY, not simply tell them what to think. However, any critical thinking student will likely come to that conclusion on their own...

 

[YDB95]

It should be the job of a professor to tell students HOW to think CRITICALLY, not simply tell them what to think.

That is exactly what the Rightguides of the world don't get. Teaching critical thinking is not indoctrination; rather, it leads to students being disproportionately progressive because right-wing ideas rarely if ever stand up well to a careful look at the facts.

 

[Ciceri]

The right shouldn’t be allowed to teach either. Only moderate/centrists. If your criticism is the violent speech, then we should ban such language from classrooms. But if your side is okay to speak hate then there’s the problem.

 

[Bray123]

There's nothing like a worthwhile opinion piece on GatewayPundit and this, like everything else that the forum fascists paste here is nothing like a worthwhile opinion.

If GP delves into different views, why doesn't it mention that the pussy-grabbing felon retweeted whilst President that the only good Democrat was a dead Democrat?

 

[ishtat]

Not the professors first Rodeo. He was placed on administrative leave in 2012 for advocating Gun control and shaming the NRA. What a wicked man!

Personally I think that by the time they are at University, students should be exposed to every shade of political opinion, the point is that as young adults they are there to learn all opinions, not to be dictated to by ignorant folk who can only entertain one point of view - their own!

As a school student I was taught Latin by a man who had been interred during the war as an official with Oswald Moseley's, British Fascist party. At University one of my Mathematics lecturers was a Trotskyist who thought Mainline Communists were all traitors to the working class. He also won an MC (Military Cross) for conspicuous gallantry in WWII. Both were eccentric but fine teachers.

The correct response from the University should have been to tell the critics to go to hell. It would have been OK for them to say Guth was a fool, but the Students are adult enough to sort that out for themselves. It's a University not a kindergarten.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

*yawn*

[and with demeanor bored]

Left or Right it's the same fallacy,

The exception does not prove the rule
and it does not mean that the tenure system is the problem.

There's an even bigger problem with the university publish or perish culture...

 

[RobDownSouth]

...

Personally I think that by the time they are at University, students should be exposed to every shade of political opinion, the point is that as young adults they are there to learn all opinions, not to be dictated to by ignorant folk who can only entertain one point of view - their own!

...

Pshaw, you're advocating for teaching students "critical thinking", which is anathema to Christian nationalism and represents a "clear and present danger" to the continued existence of the Republican party.

Republicans have belatedly realized that indoctrination of authoritarian dogma at university level is essentially "too little too late" and generally doesn't pass the "smell test" with most college students.

This explains the sudden pivot of Republicans to indoctrinating elementary school students early and often with "Christianity" in public schools. They've apparently given up on trying to coax students into controlled-curriculum private schools...Boomers are rapidly aging off the grid and they no longer have the luxury of demographics.

 

[Rightguide]

Simply no end of topics that trigger you to call for violence.
Every single time, every single day.
What in the hell hurt you so badly in life to makes you consider violence as the first response?

But you have no problem with shooting every man who doesn't vote for Harris, right?

 

[RobDownSouth]

But you have no problem with shooting every man who doesn't vote for Harris, right?

Don't ascribe positions to me. That's weird.

 

[RoryN]

The Gateway Pundit is NOT a fake news source.

Keep up that defense of GP!

Meanwhile, this dropped today:

Far-right site Gateway Pundit settles defamation suit with election workers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/gateway-pundit-defamation-lawsuit-election-workers

Hard fail for you, fuckwit.

 

[Rightguide]

Don't ascribe positions to me. That's weird.

"Weird" is a mundane description of your mental condition. However, a more scientific diagnosis would be, WMV (Woke Mind Virus).

 

[leopard50]

Good luck with that.

 

[leopard50]

Because the south really won and slavery was a skills development program.

 

[stxjimmy]

They also considered their victims "deplorables", among many other names.

Any evidence for this latest absurdity?

 

[Politruk]

The Gateway Pundit is NOT a fake news source.

That's exactly what it is.

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