For those of you who were reading my blog back in February, you may remember a couple of posts about Elyse Crystall, a liberal professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school is apparently a southern outpost for PC-America.
Mike S. Adams, a conservative and professor at the school (and one of my favorite columnists) skewers liberal academia on a weekly basis in his column for Townhall.com.
Adams exposed Crystall as the raging leftist she is after her attempt to suppress the speech of a conservative student. She also ridiculed him by sending e-mails about the matter to other students! In a class called “Literature and Cultural Diversity”, the student had the nerve to say homosexuality was “disgusting.” I guess the professor doesn’t appreciate cultural “diversity” of ideas, does she?
Crystall wasn’t fired, unfortunately, but she had to apologize. Additionally, a monitor was sent to observe her class for the rest of that semester. I know she hated that. (See these posts for my take on the matter.)
Here’s an update on the situation. The Department of Education said Crystall’s e-mail campaign constituted discrimination and harassment. Because the school handled the situation properly, however, no federal sanctions are forthcoming. Lucky libs!
According to the Herald Sun:
“The e-mail message not only subjected the student to intentional discrimination and harassment, but also discouraged the robust exchange of ideas that is intrinsic to higher education and is at the very heart of the Constitution’s protection of free speech,” said the report prepared by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights and released Wednesday.
Adams continues to fight the good fight. This week he reviews a book titled Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas, by Daniel J. Flynn. Adams writes:
Contrary to the wishes of some of my readers, I will not be writing a profile of Sanger’s life now or at any time in the future. That is because my friend Dan Flynn has done it to perfection in his outstanding new book, Intellectual Morons. If the 21-page chapter on Sanger were the only chapter in the book, Flynn’s latest (published by Crown Forum) would be well worth the purchase price. Anyone interested in saving the life of the unborn simply cannot afford to miss Dan’s latest work.Flynn’s characterization of Sanger as a “world-class liar” who “embraced tenets of Nazism, terrorism-and abortion for any reason at any time” sounds harsh at first glance. Regardless, Flynn doesn’t sound harsh for long, because he provides quote after quote to substantiate his allegations. Sometimes he quotes those whose articles Sanger published in The Woman Rebel (TWR). For example, Flynn quotes a TWR article by Robert Thorpe, opining that “lower forms of life must give place to higher forms,” in the context of Thorpe’s call for the assassination of John D. Rockefeller.
But, mostly, Flynn directly quotes Sanger, who, for example, advised women to avoid pregnancy by consuming quinine (a medicine used to fight malaria) and laxatives “to assist with the menstrual flow.” Apparently, in the twisted mind of Margaret Sanger, a bowel movement a day, keeps the baby away. Unfortunately for some unsuspecting women, Sanger’s advice didn’t flush out in the final analysis.
These Sanger quotes were bad enough, but good grief.
