Professor: Republicans are ‘Racist, Misogynist, Money-Grubbing’ If GOP Wins Universities Will Close

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BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
April 22, 2014 11:03 am

Brent Terry, a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University was caught on audio telling his Introduction to Creative Writing class that Republicans will close colleges if they prevail in 2014 and that they are “racist, misogynist, money-grubbing people” who want to suppress the liberal vote.

Campus Reform reports:

In a four-minute recording of a classroom lecture obtained by Campus Reform, Professor Brent Terry is heard strongly suggesting that conservatives are greedy racists who want to suppress the vote of anyone who might vote liberal:

“…racist, misogynist, money-grubbing people have so much power over the rest of us. And want things to go back—not to 1955, but to 1855,” Terry said to his Introduction to Creative Writing class Monday morning.

“There are a lot of people out there that do not want black people to vote, do not want Latinos to vote. Do not want old people to vote, or young people to vote. Because generally, people like you are liberal.”

The audio, captured by a current student who wishes to remain anonymous, also claims that if Republicans win the senate in 2014, colleges will start “closing up.”

“It’s absolutely possible that the Republicans will take over the Senate as well as the House. And we will live in a very, very, very different kind of country if that happens. I mean, colleges will start closing up if they, if these people have their way.”

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UPDATED TO ADD CHARLES P. PIERCE:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Morning_Butthurt

[NuclearDem]

1. Yep. Pretty much.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. And was immediately fired, I'm guessing?

Heaven forbid we should allow either free speech or reality in a college classroom

[1StrongBlackMan]

28. While I support "Free Speech"; ...

I would no more support this rant (that I agree with) in a creative writing classroom; than I would support a conservative professor criticizing Democrats.

There are limitations on "free speech" ... there is a time and a place for everything, a creative writing classroom is neither.

Unless of course, the rant was the Creative Writing Professor reading a piece he, or someone else wrote, as an example of some good or bad writing.

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. Well, lookie there ...

Except the second that Veley said, "He was talking about this poem that was themed and centered around the ideas of racial inequality, ... Oh, and the recording of Terry that Veley made contains this from the professor: "That's where creative writing meets up with the real world." Yeah, Terry explains explicitly why he's saying what he's saying, that it's the job of creative writers and good readers to see what's the thought behind what people and characters and authors express. "Even if you never write another story and another poem after this class," he tells them, "that's what you've learned." "

The good Adjunct Professor appears to have cleared my:

Unless of course, the rant was the Creative Writing Professor reading a piece he, or someone else wrote, as an example of some good or bad writing.

Bar.

I just knew there had to be more to the story!

[JaneyVee]

3. Smart guy.

[yeoman6987]

4. Do you really believe that the Republicans are going to close all the colleges and Universities?

I mean they didn't when the had the entire Congress and presidency from 2004-2006.

[BKH70041]

7. Cut it out! You're gonna burst their bubble!

And you're using big words. Whoooooosh! It'll never work.

[seabeyond]

12. you see any words in that post as "big words"? odd the snark you are using, in the manner

you are using it on a progressive board.

[wryter2000]

31. Who, exactly, is "they"?

I kind of thought we were an "us" here.

[brush]

8. They didn't have enough time

The more under educated people are and without critical thinking skills, the more they fall for repug talking points that are directly opposed to their economic interests.

The professor is on the money. Hope he survives this.

[JoePhilly]

10. Not all of them ... just the public ones.

The state universities are the target. Those are where poor and middle class kids tend to go. And the last thing the GOP wants is poor and middle class kids getting an education that would help them raise their socioeconomic status.

A college education is for the rich.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. He didn't say or imply "all the colleges and Universities"

It wouldn't surprise me to see republican polices leading to the contraction of public colleges and universities to the point where some close and/or merge.

[JaneyVee]

17. Do colleges & universities receive taxpayer $$$?

The bill won't be called "the university closings bill", it will be called "the diverted funds for an ever expanding military" bill.

[Duppers]

21. yes, by starving them of funding

It's obvious you don't know any university faculty. Grants are down to nothing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Hmm he clearly said New Hampshire

A state election. Care to look at the damage Republicans did to California's higher education through their games with the budget? Colleges did not close, but the damage was so extensive it will take decades to fix

[malaise]

5. If ReTHUGs win

America will close

[seveneyes]

6. How and why would Republicans close colleges if they prevail in 2014?

I can see how such a statement would relate to a creative writing class, but what is it based on?

[JoePhilly]

9. They'd cut funding to state universities. McCrory is doing it in NC.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/03/mccrorys-proposed-budget-neglects-higher-education

Cut funding for higher education at the state Universities. Cut funds for student loans.

The goal isn't to close all the Universities. The goal is to make it harder for poor and middle class kids to be able to attend college at all.

The kids of the rich are the only kids who should be going to higher education. Less competition for them later in life.

[jwirr]

15. If the students can no longer afford to go to college (which is already happening) the colleges will

also feel the pinch (which is already happening). It is simple if the economy does not continue to improve the schools will also be part of the failure. There will be some colleges that will survive due to endowments and other support but many will not.

What makes you think they can survive when everything else is having trouble?

[ananda]

11. So who will profit from all the 10K online degrees?

That's what I want to know.

[Nye Bevan]

14. No wonder Eastern Connecticut State University has such a prestigious reputation

with guys like this on the faculty.

[BKH70041]

16. Their basketball teams are great!

Catch them while the school's still open.

[OldRedneck]

18. I'd say he pretty much nailed it

[Nye Bevan]

20. How many universities did Reagan and the Bushes shut down? (nt)

[Bonx]

27. And then immediately apologized for his comments

'Just an hour after he was denounced by the House GOP leader, Brent Terry apologized for critical comments he made about Republicans and conservatives during a creative writing class at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he warned that a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate could threaten universities such as Eastern.

“During my creative writing class yesterday, I allowed my own political opinions to color the discussion. I regret the language I used, and I apologize to any students in the room who were offended," Terry said in a statement distributed by the school. "As a liberal arts university, Eastern is known for encouraging debate and discussion about a host of social and political issues.

"My role in my own classroom is to keep the debate lively yet respectful. I did not meet that standard yesterday, and for that I am truly sorry.”"

http://ctmirror.org/house-gop-leader-demands-gets-apology-from-ecsu-professor/

[alp227]

19. Creative writing?

Why would he make such a comment? Did some right wing snitch student with a hidden camera bait him into talking politics, for 15 minutes if fame on Campus Reform type "EVIL LIBERAL PROFESSOR" sites? Unless I'm wrong, my instinct tells me that.

[nxylas]

22. Isn't the Free Beacon a wingnut site?

I agree, this has a whiff of James O'Keefe about it.

[alp227]

24. Yes. And agree with your comment re O'Keefe nt

[dilby]

25. If colleges close it probably will have little to do with Republicans.

And everything to do with that they are just too damn expensive for anyone to afford anymore. We have a whole generation of kids who are graduating with degrees, they can't get jobs and their student loans will take longer to payoff than a home loan. The kids graduating today I can guarantee will tell their kids college is not worth the debt since the jobs you will get will barely cover the cost of your education.

[MynameisBlarney]

30. "And everything to do with that they are just too damn expensive for anyone to afford anymore."

I believe that is directly caused by the GOTP'ers.

[MynameisBlarney]

29. He ain't lyin

but he forgot to mention they're also homophobic, fascist theocrats.

[Amak8]

33. Rick Perry

wanted to deemphasize research at UT-Austin and turn it into a 3rd rate school.