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Why does this FAU professor still have a job?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Smallpotatoes, Dec 14, 2015.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Fuck it, there's just way too many anti-Semetic college professors to list (and we didn't even get to Rashid Khalidi, who though untenured, is still employed by Columbia).

    Just read this:

    Last week, Rutgers University fired its mercurial basketball coach after he was videotaped “shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs,” according to ESPN. Under pressure from school administrators, Rutgers’ athletic director, who had previously defended the coach’s behavior, resigned. It was an appropriate response: violent oafs should be fired from their university jobs for violent, oafish behavior.

    On the same day ESPN broadcast the Rutgers tape, The New York Post reported that Kathy Boudin, a professor at Columbia University, was named the 2013 Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School. In 1984, Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, a violent, oafish association of upper-class “revolutionaries,” pled guilty to second-degree murder in association with the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack, New York. Babbling in the language of anti-racism and anti-imperialism, Boudin assisted in ending the life of three people, including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force, and left nine children fatherless. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2003, Boudin was released; by 2008 she had landed a coveted teaching position at an Ivy League university.

    Indeed, Boudin’s Columbia University biography doesn’t mention her violent past, describing her simply as “an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems.” Neither does an official NYU press release announcing her new gig, instead explaining that Boudin “has been dedicated to community involvement in social change since the 1960’s.” Well, that’s one way of putting it. (Boudin didn’t respond to an interview request.)


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  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  4. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Not yet. Sounds qualified, though!
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    He has his own "Church" that meets in an office over a strip mall.

    (I only know this thanks to Wikipedia. I'd never heard of this guy before.)

    He's a nobody, with no following.

    Anti-Semites are employed at public universities around the country.

    It's not a comparable situation at all.

    (But, I do like this tidbit from Wiki: Faithful Word Baptist Church believes that the King James Bible is the Word of God without error.

    At least the radical Muslims read the Koran in the language it was written. I'm not sure how these two-bit pastors believe an English language translation could possibly be the literal Word of God without error.)
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    If FAU can't/won't deal with this person, the students should take it upon themselves to refuse to enroll in any classes he teaches.
     
  7. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Oh, hell, the King James Only movement is all over the place. There are those who would accept a newer translation so long as it was based on the (as they see them) "uncorrupted" Greek and Hebrew texts, and there are those who believe the King James version itself as divinely inspired, perhaps even a new revelation. Strange, strange stuff.
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    It's absurd, right?

    Jesus spoke Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek. The King James Bible is in English.

    But, the King James is supposed to be the literal word of God?

    People who believe this are not Bible scholars.
     
  9. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Don't forget Steven Salaita ... Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) wanted to bring him in with tenure, despite some absolutely lovely twitterized sentiments. Who can forget this one?

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    Or this one?

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  10. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    The funny thing is Smallpotatoes is probably posting on company time complaining that someone should get fired for what they do off the clock.
     
  11. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Probably Cavs fans.
     
  12. Where are the Mizzou students when you really need them?
     
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