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Every now and then, the Rude Pundit has to take out his professorin' card and play it, usually when some right-wing scumfucker forces a college instructor to toe the conservative line. Today is one of those days.
Brent Terry is a part-time adjunct professor in the English Department of Eastern Connecticut State University. In case you don't know, "adjunct instructor" is the lowest rung possible in the hierarchy of academia. Everyone from the maintenance staff to the Associate Provost's ball washer has more job security. Part-time adjuncts are treated as disposable at best, as indentured servants at worst. They are professors who are trying to cobble together a living from benefit-free teaching gigs, often at more than one college in the area. They are paid shitty wages, and, generally, they teach most of the classes at many colleges since they cover the basic ones every student must take. Except in rare cases where they have some union representation, they have no power and must hope that there are classes available on a semester-by-semester basis. Surely, there are crack whores in an alley, blowing their tenth scabby cock of the night, thinking, "Well, this is better than being an adjunct."
But, apparently, Prof. Terry was good at his job. His comments and ratings at Rate My Professor were pretty damn positive prior to this week. "Before his class I hated poetry and I now have a respect for it," wrote one student. "Terry is a little out there but overall he's a really nice guy, who really loves his poetry!" said another. It's that "little out there" that ended up pissing off one brave Republican student.
In an Introduction to Creative Writing course, Terry went on a calm, reasonable, and absolutely biased tangent on how "racist, misogynists, money-grubbing people have so much power over the rest of us. And want things to go back not to 1955 but to 1855. 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 liberals."
This was recorded by conservative student Jason Veley, who obviously turned it over to Campus Reform, the clearing house for pathetic whiners who can't stand to have any ideas but their own informing the opinions of the precious, delicate angels who are in college. This led to a Fox "news" hategasm, of course, of course.
First, the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, Jebediah Fuckagoat or something like that, got to go on Greta Van Susterenenenen's show and say things like, " T)his is creating an atmosphere for conservatives in the classroom where they are feeling -- this is why the student that released this video, this audio, is remaining anonymous. How is he going to be treated to come out as a conservative in an atmosphere where he is called a racist?"
So what intrepid reporter found out that the anonymous recorder was the aforementioned Mr. Veley? Oh, wait. It was Jason Veley himself, who was so afraid of being known that he went on Megyn Kelly's Parade of Shit What I'll Sneer At. Obviously, Veley was there to reveal what a madman Prof. Terry was, just abusing students in a completely inappropriate rant. Except the second that Veley said, "He was talking about this poem that was themed and centered around the ideas of racial inequality," whatever little point Veley and Fuckagoat and Fox wanted to make was over because what Terry said had to do with what they read in class. That's it. Issue done. Academic freedom ain't pretty.
Veley said that he confronted Terry and that the professor refused to back down or apologize. "Really, he just argued with me," he told Kelly. So because he couldn't get his teacher to bow down to his ideology, Veley felt he had no choice but to "go to the media."
And then the minority leader of the Connecticut House, Republican Larry Cafero, took to the floor of statehouse to demand an apology from Terry. "I would hope upon reflection that Professor Terry would have the decency to apologize to his class and apologize to the state university that employs him and frankly, apologize to all citizens of the state of Connecticut for his inappropriate comment," Cafero said in his three-and-a-half minute speech that was totally not grandstanding for the media. The head of the state GOP piled on, calling what Terry said "indoctrination" and that the governor should investigate the "clear abuse of a taxpayer-funded position." Because, clearly, Cafero was not abusing his taxpayer-funded position.
The Rude Pundit's said it before and he'll say it again, dear, dumb college students who believe you should go through life only hearing what Fox "news" tells you: unless your professor gives you a shitty grade because of your political beliefs, your complaints are meaningless. In fact, they are antithetical to the idea of a university education. Argue with your professor. Get others into it. You'll probably just come to a draw. But there's a chance that you might, oh, fuck, what do call it, learn something.
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 Rude Pundit's been at this a long-ass time. He's observed teachers, critiqued teachers, and hired teachers. That's good teaching.
So Terry ended up apologizing because he's an adjunct and what the fuck else was he gonna do? If he'd had tenure, he could have told everyone to kiss his happy ass.
But the dogs of the right are out there, sniffing blood on the street. Now on Terry's Rate My Professor page, people who have never taken a class with him are saying shit like "Some University Professors need to be Banished from the US for their crimes Terrorism Being taught here in American Schools" (sic). (That's probably been deleted by the site by now.) We'll go through the usual round of the nutzoids bemoaning the "liberal bias" in the liberal arts (while no one seems to complain about the conservatives and Friedmanites running around the Business departments).
And it will all just go to making students more closed-minded, more myopic, and more likely to vote Republican.
(Note: The "scumfucker" mentioned at the top is not Veley. The Rude Pundit just feels sorry for him because he's gonna feel like an even bigger idiot in a few years when he realizes how wrong he was. The scumfuckers are the Campus Reform bastards and the Connecticut GOP. Oh, and Megyn Kelly.)
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/04/cool-professor-and-nice-guy-is-now.html
Update: As rude reader RJD points out, Veley can safely go fuck some scum. Yeah, it seems that this innocent, young student who was ear-raped by his commie professor is an aspiring right-wing talk radio host, a Hannity wannabe, who had appeared on Glenn Beck's hate vomit show in 2010. He calls his online show "The Junior Factor." Extra points: He wrote a column calling liberals "racists." So he was trying to destroy Terry in order to advance his career. And, thus, he can go fuck himself with his microphone.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
malaise
(269,195 posts)Fugging authoritarians all.
Blue Owl
(50,522 posts)...and they're all outta gum!
Johonny
(20,895 posts)for the record I went to school with hundreds of these idiots and thus far they never seem to realize they were wrong. There are simply too many places like FOX news to insulate them into their little world.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Maybe they should quit being racist, money - grubbing fuckwits.
He should not have apologized for speaking the truth.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)and hitler-youth.
At least the Rude Pundit is the best. god, that guy is brilliant....and the best sarcastinater around. *swoon*
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)are beating the snot out of those who do.
How did THAT happen?
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)... is that it ignores TRUTH. The fact that conservatives are unhappy about, or feel oppressed by, or religiously disagree with, lots and lots and lots of things that happen to be true, doesn't make them any less true.
calimary
(81,518 posts)Kicked and HEARTILY Recommended!
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)As a tenured faculty member I have seen these ignorant fucks insult decent tenured faculty members for no other reason than pure hatred. When the President of the student body called them on their inappropriate and insulting demeanor at Board Meetings - one of the these fascists blathered on about how this decent kid had been corrupted - indoctrinated by leftists...
I know I shouldn't expect much living in Idaho - but seriously what shit heads. Their only purpose on the board is to disrupt as many college processes as possible. All the while wasting as many tax payer dollars as possible on witch hunts, dismantling tenure, and destroying participatory governance.
I expect red-neck kids to have a stick up their ass when it comes to critical thinking - but these "grown ups" take the cake.
All I can say is NEVER send any prospective student to any Idaho college or university.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)taxes are bad, business owners are good, democratic thinking is bad, republican is good. You had to keep your cool if you needed the grade.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)"We'll go through the usual round of the nutzoids bemoaning the "liberal bias" in the liberal arts (while no one seems to complain about the conservatives and Friedmanites running around the Business departments)."
A lot of the people in the Business Departments are basically fascists, but their teachers seem to have plenty of job security. I don't believe in any kind of "liberal bias" in most colleges.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)pragmatic_dem
(410 posts)alp227
(32,063 posts)"And it will all just go to making students more closed-minded, more myopic, and more likely to vote Republican. "
Feature, not bug.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)I worked out that, for the amount I was being paid, and the amount of time I was putting in (preparing lectures, grading papers and so on), I would have made better money flipping burgers at McDonalds.
My single benefit was a faculty parking sticker. I was let go because they found someone with a PhD (I had only a Masters) willing to do the job.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)She's a graduation advisor as well as an adjunct professor, and that's what's keeping her afloat; no classes next semester.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY?
Dickwad right-wing student once again proves the point and is oblivious to the fact.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)out of diapers!
"Well, it turns out there's more to Jayson than meets the eye. Oh, he's quite the aspiring little wingnut, our Jayson is.
For years, we have seen a decline in small government republicanism among the youth. Junior Factor Nation believes that this is primarily due to liberal indoctrination in high school and college classrooms, as well as over-exposure to liberal philosophies from television and the media. As a result, we are seeing an increasing trend towards liberalism, atheism, and big government ideologies. The problem with this is that liberal policies are not in line with our founding principles. Therefore, if we allow this trend to continue, future generations may not even know the true meaning of the words "we the people." That is our battle - to ensure that our children grow up with just as much, if not more, freedom than we have in America today. It is time for a revolution of the heart and mind, and Junior Factor Nation is prepared to bring that revolution to light, one broadcast at a time.
Here are the rest of the Teen Titans. (I don't know which is my favorite. The one who "rights article", or the one who am very opinionated.) Wait a second, here's our boy.
Jayson Veley started his broadcasting career in July of 2009 with The Junior Factor, a local access television show that he co-hosted with his friend, Connor Mullin. The goal of The Junior Factor was to spread the conservative message to as many members as the youth as possible and aired for a total of three years, ending in the summer of 2012. Shortly after, Veley took on an even bigger project - a network called Junior Factor Nation which he co-founded with Caiden Cowger. The network consists of several different conservative radio programs, all hosted by kids in their teens and early twenties. Veley's show, Factor Talk Radio, started on April 26th, 2012 and currently airs from 7-8 PM on Monday and Thursday nights. Each broadcast features in depth conservative commentary, political analysis, humor, and of course, sarcasm, In the past, Veley has been criticized for being too aggressive on the air, but what some call anger he likes to call passion. The future of America is at stake, and if it's a war the liberals want, it's a war they're going to get.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/cliven-bundy-racism-042414
alp227
(32,063 posts)who notoriously claimed Obama was "making kids gay"
Orsino
(37,428 posts)That's how you recognize them.
sgtbenobo
(327 posts)....christ what an idiot.
http://juniorfactornation.com/author/jayson-veley/
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