TCU boots vet from Journalism class for his opinion
GDContractor sends us a link to a story at Hypeline about a disabled veteran and student, Matthew Monahan, who was booted from a Journalism class at Texas Christian University because the teacher of the particular class decided that Matthew’s class assignment was “dark, offensive and inappropriate”. I’m not sure we’re getting the whole story, but then the University isn’t answering any questions.
The University sent a detective from the University’s police unit to investigate the incident. They told the police that Monahan had been confrontational and indignant during a class discussion of his blog post, but there are no details of that discussion – only the emotional reaction of the teacher, Ms. Melita Garza. The police note in their report (at the Hypeline link) that Monahan had no prior offenses and that he was completely cooperative with the officer and the school’s administration. The teacher, however disagreed;
The professor gave the student an “F” on the blog post. Then the professor reported the disabled student veteran to the department chair stating, “the student’s degrading references to women and disturbing video elicited concerns for my safety,” the professor said. “I was concerned about the safety of other students in the course, most of whom were women.”
Now, if it’s true that the teacher’s assessment was about the blog post that I linked above, I don’t see what she’s talking about. The “disturbing video” is just an interview with the two female soldiers who graduated from Ranger School last year – I don’t know what could be disturbing about it. But then, I never did understand Leftists’ tendency towards hyperbole when it comes to their feelings.
Like I said, we’re probably not hearing the whole story, but then the University isn’t being cooperative in giving us their side, so what are we to do? They should say something because, at this point they look like a-holes who don’t like disabled veterans.
Category: Schools, Veterans Issues
There has to be more to the story. Reading that blogpost, there is nothing that I saw that fit the narrative of : “the student’s degrading references to women and disturbing video elicited concerns for my safety,”.
No. There does not have to be more to that story.
The teacher is a full blown Social Justice Warrior.
This is the exact same issue as that degenerate thumbsucking *unt at that IT gathering that claimed to feel so threatened she had to leave because a couple of guys in the rows behind her told a joke about a dongle.
This is called targeted eliminationism. Pick a target person and drive that person out of business or out of the community. Make up shit to feel threatened over.
SJWs ALWAYS LIE!
When dealing with SJWs, you’re dealing with the exact same mindset as the Commiescum Chinese Revolutionary Guard during the Cultural Revolution.
There is exactly zero difference between the two in action/method/intent.
All those in the school admin that either stand up for that piece of sub-juvenile filth or refuse to fire her degenerate ass need to be forced to find work more appropriate to their integrity level. Work such as mining trash cans for returnables to raise the funds for their next meal.
I’m willing to bet that if you picked up Ms. Melita Garza’s teachers desk nameplate, on the bottom it would read:
*Katrina Moerk is my hero*
^^^^LIKE^^^^
Ahhhhh Moerk. A woman after Lar’s own heart. Seriously. I bet they would get on good together.
I bet Lars “creams his jeans” over thoughts of SP8 Moerk.
You really are a shitbag.
She was a 1SG. Not a SP8.
We know that; dumbass. SP8 is used in derogatory fashion. If you were as smart as you think you are, you would have known that.
I’d say “descriptive” vice “derogatory”, Old Trooper.
NCOs know how to use the chain-of-command and NCO support chain. The “SPC Mafia” loves to go around and/or jump both.
When an E8 doesn’t know how to use the chain-of-command or NCO support chain properly, calling them “SP8” seems appropriately descriptive.
Remember: “Buddy is only half the word.”
These soldiers were wrong. She attempted to correct them. They turned it into a bigger issue by harassing her, including sexual harassment, after she identified herself as a 1SG.
She did the right thing and referred it to the SHARP director. It was the SHARP director that brought it up to the level it went.
The fact that this board disparages her makes this board look like a bunch of asshats.
But instead of working with the offending Soldiers’ CoCs and NCO Support Chains like a REAL NCO would do she went straight to the highest echelon she could with a “HEY, LOOK AT ME!” attitude expecting that ARCOM because of her gender and making herself as a victim. She’s a shallow thin-skinned weasel like you, Commissar!
When Lars grows up, he wants to be the FIRST political/SJW commissar in the U. S. Military!
Lars,NCO’s are taught to handle things at the lowest level possible first, meaning contacting the Soldiers COC.That would have given them the chance deal with their Soldier directly.She contacted the Army SHARP Director first. That is one of the reasons people were so upset. I find it funny that she had problems with remarks Soldiers were making online but had no problem in calling John an Asshat on social media. Double standard maybe?
It has always been my understanding that one of the functions of an NCO is to try to solve problems before they become large enough to become an official problem requiring the attention of the chain of command. The higher these things go, the unhappier everyone involved is. Minimize the paperwork, time, and aggravation involved.
But that would require a discretion and sense of proportion that the E8 obviously lacked.
There is a similar device used in the Navy, referring to someone in the CPO community by their Paygrade E-7/8/9 sends a clear message.
Yes it does… and if you are known as a E-7/8/9, the Mess keeps you at arms length.
I’ve known a few and they take Blue Falconry to a whole new level…
I did know that it was being used in a derogatory fashion. That is why I called him a shitbag.
It is bullshit that the little shitbag is using it to disparage the nature of her service.
1SG Moerk was not wrong for her on the spot corrections. The comments she saw soldiers posting about female soldiers, including VIDEO of these female service members, were out of line.
Correcting the shitbags doing it was well within her authority and responsibility as a 1SG.
The Army was off the mark for giving her an ARCOM for it.
The majority of the members of this board are on the wrong side of that issue. I am not surprised.
A REAL 1SG would have gotten up
With the offenders’ CoC’s and NCO Support Chains instead of going as high up as possible first for political points!
You lose yet again, Commissar.
They had no idea she was a 1SG. In fact, I could go online and claim I was a CSM, but unless you are face to face with them, “on the spot” corrections are futile and since they had no way of verifying that she was a 1SG, they did what they did. That she went outside the CoC, shows that she was not senior NCO material. Disparaging her for her actions doesn’t make us wrong, either.
Lars, it must be hard to type with one hand while you are spanking yourself over SP8 Moerk’s photo.
Not derogatory, Taylor – descriptive.
NCOs know how to use the chain-of-command and/or NCO support chain. They also know that “jumping the chain” is a major NO-GO.
Specialists, in contrast, often have trouble with those concepts.
Looking at Moerk’s conduct, it’s clear she acted more like a p!ssed off SPC than an NCO.
She was arguably right to take issue with the behavior she observed. She was childish and unprofessional in both the way she reported that poor behavior and the way she dealt with Jonn afterwards.
as a former spec 4 your implying she was twice as good as me. I’m filing a police report that I feel degraded, threatened and am afraid to leave my house
So are you, Lars. You’re also a liar.
When did I lie?
Coming back to the board?
Are you truly oblivious or just in denial, slapdick?
Lars;
There’s this big book that’s known as “a dictionary”. I highly recommend you locate one. A good place to look would be in a place called “a library”.
The next step is to look up a word and parse it’s definition.
That word is “sarcasm”.
I get that it was sarcasm. He was a shitbag for disbarring the rank she earned.
I’d say he referred to her by the rank she conducted herself as. Her ARCOM winning performance was conduct unbecoming an NCO.
‘Disbarring’?
Attorneys are disbarred, you moron. No one was ‘disbarring’ SGT Moerk.
Get a damned dictionary and take a class in English. You’ve just let the entire world know that your practical application of the English languages is somewhere around 4th grade level.
*disparaging.
No, you aren’t getting out of this one, Lars, you poodle.
My cat is smarter than you are by a country mile.
I’ve got sweaters with a higher IQ than yours.
My kitchen stove spouts less gas than you do.
My cookbooks are more definitive and accurate than you are.
The squirrels on my front deck have better comprehension of things than you do.
You are, in EFFECT, a self-serving dork. I pity anyone who was unfortunate to serve under you. Let me know who they were. I’ll send them sympathy cards.
Would you like fries with that?
I don’t mind, Larsie. They’re just showing how thin-skinned I am and my shitty leadership skills!
I know hundreds of veterans. And this board is not representative of of them.
Shit like disparaging a female 1SG is unbecoming to any veteran.
You are an embarrassment to veterans.
And you are not a good representation of them either, Lars…
One has to respect the rank, not the person behind it.
Seems you never figured that ouy, either.
Bingo. Rank deserves respect. The individual holding the rank may or may not.
I know a lot of liberals. Some of them are very nice people. Some of them are very intelligent. Some of them are smarter than me. I tend to hold them in high personal regard, though I disagree with them. You are none of those things, Lars. You are an embarrassment to liberals.
And you Lars are just an embarrassment.
And yet, Lars the Dim, YOU have disparaged me and other women on this board.
Okay, fine. I EARNED my rank by passing professional and hands-on testing, in addition to actually DOING the work, before you were a wet spot on your mother’s underwear.
Whose ass did you kiss to get ahead?
Would you like fries with that?
And Ex has served up Lars in a fine fashion once again.
Ex-PH2 is just ONE of The Lionesses of TAH®™, she and the others will tear up a troll like a hungry Lioness on a prey animal, DITTO with the others!!
Maybe it’s a matter of location LT, but I deal with a large and ever rotating military community and IME this board represents them very well overall.
Commissar DOESN’T know me.
This is your mangina, Lars… and you haven’t taken your Pamprin today.
This discussion is about Ms. Garza, not Moerk. By the way, Moerk called me an asshat on social media – she got an ARCOM for reporting other members of the military who did that.
One comment and Lars shat himself all over the place!
Addressing someone as 1SG implies that they are a leader. E8 Moerk is not. I got my ARCOMs for actually doing things. Not for being an Internet troll.
She did not award herself or recommend herself for the ARCOM. You are blaming the wrong person for that award.
People like Moerk are generally called snitches. Her response to the soldiers was incorrect. She jumped the chain of command.
How do you NOT get that, poodle? Are you really that dense?
It would require Lars to have a few things, one of which is a working brain.
Well, that’s a probably, you see, because just one of Valerie Perrine’s boobs is bigger than his brain.
I really need to proof before I hit ‘post’.
‘Probably’ should be ‘problem’. My bad.
This is true. The entire signature chain for that award needs to be removed from their positions as well.
Hehehe. While I normally do not agree with you Mr. Taylor, that was funny.
What a maroon.
G-d forbid they should ever have children (shudder. . . )
Or “Bernath is my co-pilot”.
It looks to me like he wrote what he was honestly thinking and got urinated on by some pissy-assed PC Professor with a cocklebur in her hemp fiber undergarment!
She felt threatened by a differing but honest opinion written by a combat-experienced vet? She thinks other women are being threatened? She wants a police escort?
OH. MY. GOD.
If she is NOT the most asinine sample to come from the feminazism movement, I don’t know what she is.
She’s at least in the worldwide top five!
After reading the blog, I can’t say I see anything threatening at all. I see grammatical errors which are cringe-worthy in a finished paper. If this was an undergrad paper, allowances could be made, but a failing grade is not IMO warranted and is simply punitive.
I don’t know what the requirements were for the paper, so I don’t know what requirements were or were not met.
Well, but she also argued with him in class over his conclusions, so she either didn’t read for content, which does matter or she was just looking for a chance to pick a fight.
I’d like to hear more from his side of the wire.
Well now that he has attorneys, I believe that she should be feeling threatened. For being an unjustified asshat and that she or the university are going to have to be writing this disabled veteran a nice fat check for discrimination (possibly) the ADA, and at the very least, the new found fame for her ignorance may threaten her job.
And restoration of or compensation for his lost military educational benefits.
The Vet probably had the nerve to disagree with opening Infantry Billets to females.
No, according to the blog post he mostly agreed with it.
Thought this is a conservative Christian university and the teacher may have actually been opposed to it.
You don’t know me, Commissar.
It’s entirely possible, Taylor, that “mostly agreed” wasn’t acceptable to the student’s professor – and that she retaliated because he wouldn’t “toe the line”.
If he suggested an all-female combat unit, that in turn means he’s not supporting “full, no-holds-barred integration into the combat arms”. To some, that’s unacceptable heresy!
After all: you don’t exactly seem to like it when people take issue with your “pronouncements from on high”, no matter how inane or erroneous those are.
“L. Taylor says:
February 5, 2016 at 11:27 am
No, according to the blog post he mostly agreed with it.”
Maybe my reading comprehension isn’t up to snuff with yours, but the way I read it the young man was saying that females, including the ones who made it through Ranger School were being given special consideration.
He is basically saying rigging the outcome is BS.
Ms Garza and the rest of the females there interpreted it as him saying that the Females didnt earm the right to be called Rangers.
Usually, I wholeheartedly agree that in these matters we don’t get the whole story. Nevertheless, in this instance, I don’t know that it is necessary to get the details. You want to screw someone? Just mention that you fear for your safety or those in your charge. The immediate response is what? Exactly. Later, after the “threat” has been removed, the investigation runs its course and, lo and behold, the perceived threat cannot be substantiated or recognized by third parties. Then, it becomes a ‘how do we handle this’ matter so as not to be labeled insensitive to the feelings and perceptions of the ‘victims.’ Bottom line: The Vet is screwed one way or another. This isn’t the stuff of criminal law where an actionable threat must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. This is the stuff of fascist, political-charged, liberal academia.
^^^^^^^ WORD ^^^^^^^
Precisely.
What you said 2/17!
Because this is apparently what our government wants; an Army full of individuals who can’t stand to be confronted (or at least such is typical of those who are promoting the changes to our force). The left wants to transform the whole world into something like what they have made of our madhouse campuses. It won’t work, but it will create chaos, which will suffice for their purposes.
I read his blog post. He said nothing that has not already been said here. I haven’t yet watched the video he included, but I will. He mentioned the success of the pesmerga women against ISIS, which has been brought up here before, and suggested that an all-female combat group be the answer. That’s a common sense response.
If the instructor (female?) finds his opinion dark and disturbing, she has a problem. SHE is not paying attention to the real world, which is the root of the problem.
For the umpteenth freakin’ time, equality comes with responsibilities AND with consequences.
That’s all I have to say about it. Well, that, and the instructor needs a strong does of real-world combat reality, up close and personal. I’ll be happy to escort her.
‘does’ should be ‘dose’. No proofreading! Sorry.
Where is Nicki in all of this?
Agreed that there has to be more of the story. Seems too weird if the guy was cooperative with the police.
[/also posting this comment before Lars comes in and felates a donkey or says some shit about how she deserves to be safe and the veteran was being an asshole]
I’m waiting for Nicki to wade in on this.
I KNOW Lars and he IS an asshole!
No. You do not know me.
And you don’t know Jack Shit, Lars.
Instinct knows me and HE IS RIGHT, Commissar does NOT know me!!
I know captain’s aren’t normally that fucking dense.
I’m kinda surprised something like this hasn’t happened at a certain university in the SF Bay Area.
The vast majority of the people in a locale like that DON’T know me.
For “a certain university”, I would substitute “each and every university”.
Yeah, but not the one I went to. They expect students to be able to think independently.
I have the feeling that they kinds of universities you and I went to no longer exist, Ex-PH2.
My nephew is highly frustrated right now. Every university he’s looked at, even the ones with respectably sized ROTC units, are driving his conservative mind bonkers. But he’s still not ready to follow his older brother’s example of enlisting and getting a degree via AMU or other non-sticks and bricks method, where exposure to the looney toon professors is minimized.
Makes me worry about my great nieces’ and nephews’ future educational prospects.
Has he checked out Miami University yet?
He should try Texas A&M. Not as conservative as it used to be (depending on your major), but still far more so than most universities.
His mom can’t afford A&M and definitely not UofM (out of state tuition, etc.).
Oh, no, MAJArky, mine is still there. The curriculum has been upgraded tremendously since I graduated.
Didn’t mean physically not there, just not the same academically.
Unlikely. Not a state school. I know people who teach there. If anything, the curriculum is far more stringent and dedicated to put people into the work place than ever before.
Honestly, I went to a private art school and the majority of the instructors, I would say about 70% were conservative. The liberals were all in the places you would expect them: Liberal Arts classes. Sociology, History, etc.
The conservative instructors were the ones teaching art skills and since that was how they made the other half of their living was by making and selling art they were VERY conservative.
Also, since good art is about independent thinking, and I went to a very good school, you couldn’t avoid developing that attribute.
Disagreeing even arguing with teachers has a long proud tradition at Cal.
It may effect you grade (but probably not since you are graded primarily by the GISs) but unless you refuse to let it rest when the teacher wants to move on with the lecture it will have no effect on your ability to remain in the class.
You don’t know me, Commissar.
Outside the technical disciplines, US academia in general – and in particular the social sciences – has a long tradition of being biased. That bias sometimes extends to the point of downgrading or purposefully failing – for ideological reasons – outspoken politically conservative students. The bias is not universal, but it does exist.
Data is available on college faculty political opinions. Ideology-wise, the social science disciplines – much like professional journalists – are hugely skewed to the liberal side of the political spectrum.
I wouldn’t call it a “proud” tradition by any means. But only an unaware fool or someone who is deliberately dissembling would argue otherwise.
Your response has nothing to do with what I said or even the blog post in question.
The student took a politically liberal position in his blog post.
And you have a poor command of simple English, Lars, you poodle.
For the 2nd time this week, you have used ‘effect’ incorrectly.
Get a damned dictionary and start using it, or stop making asinine semi- illiterate comments that make everyone here thing you’re stoopid.
If you can’t use the English language correctly, that may effect you grade also.
That’s what I get for not proofing, MrBill! One of these days, I’ll get a new keyboard and it will type correctly. I promise.
Sorry, Ex-PH2, I actually meant that for Lars. I just thought his “It may effect you grade” was too funny to ignore. Anyone can make a typo, but he makes a lot of them – and that particular one was just too good.
But those mistakes are not his fault, Mr.Bill. They’re all some odd kind of brain fart with him.
Actually, it does.
Political bias in grading may be present in the incident described here. That’s precisely why I made the comment above. Since your comment asserts (by implication and without evidence) a lack of such bias at Berkeley, yes – my comment was indeed related to yours. Specifically, it was intended to point out that your experiences at Berkeley may or may not be relevant to this individual’s experiences at another university – because the problem exists nationwide, albeit not in all academics.
Apparently you missed that line of reasoning. Next time, maybe think a bit before running off at the mouth half-cocked.
Alternatively, just consider this a bit of “good for the gander” from me. You often raise irrelevant points to change the subject, apparently by design. Perhaps here I decided to do the same to you. You decide which you wish to believe it was.
Either way, deal with it.
The political bias you described is anti-conservative bias. The blog post the student submitted was in line with the liberal position on the issue.
So the bias you describe does not apply.
My post was about students arguing with their teachers being a tradition at CAL. Your response did not apply to that either.
Taylor, the clear implication of your comment above is that Berkeley – because it has what you assert without proof is a “long tradition of students arguing with their professors” – is free of political bias in grading. My comment was directly related to that observation in that I noted that such political bias nonetheless (a) exists, (b) is widespread in academia, and (c) is generally anti-conservative.
Further, the fact that bias is “anti-conservative” doesn’t mean someone with moderate leftward leanings is immune from being a target. A radical leftist very often sees left-leaning moderates as “fascists” or “Birchers” simply because they aren’t “true believers”.
Sheesh, do they truly not require the use of critical and/or logical thinking any more at Berkeley? Or do you simply choose not to use those skills when you fear you might not like the answer they yield?
“Sheesh, do they truly not require the use of critical and/or logical thinking any more at Berkeley?”
My guess is that they do. Some folks are apparently unable to use it for some known or unknown reason.
My money’s on the “simply choose not to use those skills when you fear you might not like the answer they yield”, Bill M. But you could well be right.
See, for instance, the purge of solidly left-leaning administrators and profs in the aftermath of the protests (by which I mean tantrums) just a few months ago.
Lars, you are so full of shit I’d be surprised if you eyes aren’t brown.
The worst group think that I have ever seen was when I was in grad school in the Bay area. Buncha mindless fucking zombies.
I got shitty grades in a couple of classes for daring to disagree with the so-called “educator” in charge, one of whom, I swear to God, couldn’t spell “CPR,” but somehow had tenure.
Then again, there was also Dr. Little, who taught Rhetoric & Writing at SDSU. She was probably the most leftist teacher I had, but was a shining exception in that she openly encouraged opposing views. She said on the first day of class, “You’re not here to agree with me. You’re here to make ME agree with YOU.” She also happened to be one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, borderline-communist or not. To this day, I still adore that woman.
On the opposite side of the coin was Dr. Sullivan, the Political Science teacher who was a tinfoil-hat revisionist and an obnoxious self-centered hellbitch who treated everybody like shit. Her conclusions were way out by the Left Field fence, and in the rare event that she offered anything to back them up other than, “Because I say so,” it would be from some crackpot nutjob who made Howard Zinn look like Stephen Ambrose. She hated me, because I didn’t take her shit at face value and asked questions that didn’t fit in with her narrative. One of her batshit conspiracy theories (complete with a video) halfway through the semester revolved around the troubled adoption and teething problems of the M16 in Vietnam. Unfortunately for her, I’m both a history nerd and a gun nut. At that point I was getting a ratfuck grade anyway, so why the hell not? At the end of the video, I pulled the “My Cousin Vinny” and said, “Everything that guy in the video just said is bullshit. Here’s why.” Five minutes later, I asked her, “Are you sure you still wanna argue this particular topic with me? ‘Cause we’ve clearly established that I know a LOT more about it than you.”
TOW, I’m with you on this… and have met more than my fair share of “profs” that started their first class sessions with “You will agree with me or your grades will suffer” line.
Colleges and Universities were, at One time, supposed to be places to open your minds to other people and ways of thinking, as well as advancing yourself. But for the last 40 years or so, they have been little liberal fortresses of rigid thought and very little freedoms to disagree with others in class.
These days, if you are a conservative, while male on most college or university campuses, you are a threat to others.
More like “If you are a Conservative White Male on most college or university campuses, YOU are automatically a racist hate monger that is responsible for all of the world’s ills.”
There, fixed it for ya! ?
Domo, API… not enough caffeine in the system this AM.
Wonder if that particular Dr. Sullivan might be related to Taylor?
I’ve pondered that question myself a time or two, Hondo.
I learned early in undergrad that you have to know the instructor’s beliefs if you want to maximize your grade. It’s kinda sad and unfair, but too often it is simply part of your research.
You’re assuming a combat veteran would even be allowed into such an institution.
I would knock a number of points off for poor grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, but in no way did he deserve an ‘F’ unless it didn’t meet the requirements of the assignment. However, that was not the reason given for the grade; the reason given was that it was too “dark, offensive, and inappropriate”. Arbitrary and capricious grading criteria and practices have no place in a college classroom (or any classroom, for that matter).
My bet is that the moonbat perfesser flunked him for not writing a bucket of unicorn-fart PC crap that would make Lars cream his jeans.
You didn’t even bother to read the blog post did you?
You don’t know me, Commissar.
False assumption on your part, poodle, based on the false notion that when someone you don’t like says something, s/he didn’t ‘read’ the material. VERY FALSE ASSUMPTION.
You’re doing a fine job of presenting yourself as superfluous and butthurt, just waiting for a chance to smear someone, so stuff it.
What the hell?
He said:
“My bet is that the moonbat perfesser flunked him for not writing a bucket of unicorn-fart PC crap that would make Lars cream his jeans.”
If he read the blog post he would have known that his assumption of what happened was not accurate.
You don’t know me, Commissar.
And you fell for that bait, you trout-sniffing poodle.
I do not see anything wrong with the blog post.
There is either more to this story or the teacher disagreed with him that women should be able to serve in combat and it got heated.
I truly do not understand the issue with the video.
While I in no way agree with the hysterical, panty-twisted professor’s ridiculous claims on the premise of his blog piece, I will say that I think the guy’s writing skills leave a lot to be desired for a college-level, journalism class. Were I his teacher, and I used to teach English, he’d get no better than a C simply for being too sloppy to use the spellchecker on his computer. But the piece is overall poorly written in my opinion.
I agree with many others that there is more to this story than what we’re getting here. The teacher may be a feminazi but this vet may not be completely innocent of provocation either.
As a college freshman, just months out of ground combat in Vietnam, there were plenty of times when I wanted badly to tell some of my professors that while they were book smart they didn’t know jack shit about the real world and how bad it really is. But I also knew I wanted to stay on the honor roll for future job prospects so it was prudent to bite my tongue. It’s comparable to needlessly provoking your first sergeant.
Poetrooper knows me.
All us grammar police know that Spell Check is NOT. Your. Friend. When I teach proofreading and editing to my writer’s group, that’s the first thing stressed.
Those who ignore it find their drafts covered in red. Even our worst budding writers have proven better than a computer program written by they who do not have English as a native tongue…
That said, I saw nothing there that would threaten anyone except a loony professor with a dark, offensive and inappropriate outlook.
Yep, spellcheck is a real joy sometimes, but auto-correct can be a real Mother Forklift!!
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/spellchecker.html
Eye halve a spelling chequer;
It came with my pea see;
It plainly marques four my revue,
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong oar write;
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite;
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it;
I am shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.
–Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
I flat to not buy this story as it is being presented.
*do
You don’t know me, Commissar. Maybe you could use some proofreading and grammar lessons as well?
Browse through the archives over at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education https://www.thefire.org and you will see plenty of similar stories.
Prohibited source for someone from Berkeley, 68W58. Especially someone who has already made up his mind – and has no need to consult sources because they believe themselves infallible.
I do not buy that he was kicked out for the blog post linked in the story.
You appear to have not read it yet.
Lars, you shot your credibility in the ass, lit it on fire, flushed it down the toilet, and chased it with a greasy turd long ago.
TOW knows me and Commissar doesn’t.
Irrelevant, Taylor.
Above I was referring to the link provided by 68W58 immediately above as the “prohibited source”. My comment had nothing to do with the TCU student or his blog post.
Both of those points should have been obvious to anyone both normal IQ and the ability to comprehend standard written English.
How do you do it Lars? If I came here and argued and name called as much as you do with as many as you do it with, I’d go on a violence fueled rampage.
I mean this as a serious question. What do you get out of this? Is there an altruistic motive that I am just failing to see?
I think he craves whatever attention he can get and when it’s negative he’ll go on either an “Oh, poor me, I’m oppressed” mode or he’ll envision himself as a hero standing fast on his views while everyone else is an uneducated dolt.
I guess. I’m not leaving, but I’ve got to take a break for a couple of hours. It’s a shame he’s turned it into this. I used to enjoy the discussion, even the dissenting opinions, but I don’t care for what he’s turning it into.
I really think if you told me I’d won the lottery it would still piss me off Lars. and it’s not because you disagree with me. I’ve actually found merit in some of your points, but like I’ve told you before, the message is lost in the delivery.
I’m gonna go walk around Wal-Mart or something.
Ok, Animal. I will make you a deal. I will do my part to try to improve your online environment.
For now on I will truly make a best effort to not resort to name calling. I will try to only post my opinions and beliefs on a topic and ignore efforts to troll me into an argument.
We will see if that changes much about the way this board reacts to my posts.
You don’t know me, Commissar.
It’s t show everyone in the world that his penis was replaced by a mangina and that he wants a place in Academia to point out how anyone with a conservative mindset is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
I do not think conservatism itself is wrong. It has helped society to advance at a rate that maintains greater stability on average over time.
However, American conservative political thought and rhetoric right now is wrong on too many issues and it is attempting to maintain an international political economy and domestic finance regime that is not in the interests of the overwhelming majority of the American people. It is also being used to increase and legitimize a national security and domestic security state that is anathema to the very principles we like to believe our nation was founded upon.
And increasingly American conservatism is being used to increase the influence of Christianity on our political landscape.
So I despise modern American conservative ideology.
You don’t know me, Commissar.
Yet you support Marxism… How many here are not actually surprised that you “… despise modern American conservative ideology.”
If I may, Animal: Lars the poodle is a pompous-assed ex-Army ossifer with a hair up his butt about anyone other than him having an independent, and possibly more accurate, point of view. He wants freedom of speech for himself, but not for anyone else. He refuses to admit that other people have rights, too, because like the animals in ‘Animal Farm’, he’s got the whip in his little trotter and no one else should be allowed to have one.
Some animals are more equal than other animals. Very Orwelllian and a twigdick, too.
I resisted getting frustrated with him ph-2, but I’m losing the battle the last couple of days. Speaking of animals,
I resisted getting frustrated with him ph-2, but I’m losing the battle the last couple of days. Speaking of animals, my username is my favorite muppet lest anyone think I’m invoking some measure of physical, sexual or any other prowess through the name.
Given his track record for honesty, I’m beginning to seriously wonder about the veracity of his claims about his Army service and his supposed education at Berkely.
You are full of shit as usual EX-PH2
Says the man with brown eyes.
Based on what?
My opinion of you, which is valid, is based on my observations of your behavior since you started posting comments on TAH some months ago.
Every thread is twisted by you to be about YOU, Lars, you poodle. The hard evidence is right there in front of anyone who wishes to go back, dig it up, and review it. You don’t want dissenting opinions from anyone. Your attitude toward everyone posting on TAH has been disdainful and sometimes spiteful from the get-go. You do NOT back up your assertions, EVER, and you do expect people to do YOUR homework for you in digging up references. Your snot-nosed attitude reeks of self-importance. When someone refutes what you say, with references, you deny the rebuttal.
Well, Tootsie, no one here is your heelhound or beck-and-call girl.
Telling me I’m full of shit is not an answer, however, you ARE an attention whore. Enjoy the spotlight. You come off as silly and unimportant.
Would you like fries with that?
As Ralph Kramden would say, “*POW!*, right in the kisser!”. ?
Oh, and he broke his own word, given here:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=64189&cpage=1#comment-2794112
That was quick, wasn’t it?
Nice try, trout-sniffer.
I think you will find the name calling goes both ways. Even when I make a very innocuous post it invites vitriol, trolling, and obnoxiousness. I am not liked here and more than a few posters simply troll my posts. They even troll about me when I am not here. I actually do not know why I am here. Most of these guys represent the last gasps of dead political ideologies. I am not going to change any of their minds. Their personal intellectual growth has stopped years ago. At first I came here because I saw the blog referenced as a source of veteran sentiment on an issue. I thought it would be a good place to discuss issues with veterans. I learned quickly that this group is absolutely not representative of most veterans (though they seem to think they are). I know hundreds of veterans and some of the vile shit I see posted on this board ranks among the worst I have ever heard a veteran utter. Especially in regard to Muslims, women, and anyone that stands up for the rights of groups that the members of this board do not generally identity with. Most veterans I have served with would dismiss many of these posters as idiots. I also learned there are still people walking this earth that are afraid of communists. It is a ridiculous to me as being afraid of witches but some people are utterly incapable of intellectual growth, even over the period of decades. I find that fascinating and discouraging. I am working on a paper about how human society as an organism is not adapting to the rate of change to its environment. Essentially the metabolism of our economy, consumption of resources, and inter-group interaction has accelerated to the point that we generate and face problems at a much faster rate than humanity once did. The fact that there is a large demographic of people incapable of updating their worldview over decades provides evidence that humans are incapable of managing the problems we face in the future at the rate we… Read more »
We all know how much you love to come here and start calling people “fucking idiots” and “assholes”, Lars. You love that “in your face” screaming that you do when anyone disagrees with you over any issue. It has to be “my way or the highway” with you… no exceptions!
Maybe you need to go and create your own blog with the goal of catering to others with your mindset… like IAVA members or other SJW’s? Your lack of maturity in discussing any issue is what I would not expect from someone that came up from the ranks” to be a commissioned officer. You sound more like someone that was asked to leave the service because of your “personality”; your CO or XO got fed up with your bullshit and told you your career was at a dead end.
BTW – you ARE a bad representation of what a veteran is based on your conduct here at TAH.
I disagree with some of you points and your interpretation of my intent.
However, I take your point, my conduct on TAH has been a poor representation of a veteran and a poor representation of someone that rose through the ranks to become a commissioned officer.
I have serious anger issues that I am dealing with. And when it started effecting my performance I sought help.
It did not destroy my career, but it would have if I did not get it under control. I walked away and took a knee instead.
No, your anger issues did not EFFECT you performance, you imbecile.
Effect as an active verb means: ‘to be the cause of’
That means that you use it thusly: I have EFFECTED change. I.e., I am the cause of change.
Since you seem to be unwilling to pick up a dictionary and learn the difference between effect and the other word, you have just let everyone know that you are, as I said before, lazy, sloppy, tiresome and boring.
If you actually expect anyone to believe that your graduate degree is useful, I suggest you take a class in remedial English now, before it’s too late.
Now be a good poodle and go look up the other word.
Would you like fries with that?
Thanks. I will continue to make mistakes like this moving forward.
Try not to have it affect your health, it would be tragic if the effect my failure to correctly use “effect”or “affect” caused in you was an aneurysm.
Doesn’t AFFECT my health, at all, Lars, you trout-sniffing poodle, but it does make you look dumber than a hedgehog in a bowl full of marshmallows.
I’m far less likely to have an aneurysm than you are. I’ve been tested by the best.
Would you like fries with that?
Lars… from one person to another person, maybe you need to walk away from this and other blogs until you get your “anger issues” under better control. IMO, there’s a great deal of hidden anger in what you post, and I don’t know if it is affecting your personal life (I’m not a psychiatrist or psychologist and I’m not going to try to figure that out). You just seem to get angry here at TAH at the drop of a hat – that’s not the way to prove a point or to live life.
Some advice from a retired Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman – walk away from here and try to figure out how to put your anger in check before you come back and post and be a person that can be listened to and respected… before Jonn puts you into “time out”.
^^^^VERY SOUND ADVICE!!!^^^^
Lars, the consensus among the regulars here at TAH is that you’re an attention-craving thin-skinned long-winded blowhard Narcissist and you feel like you HAVE TO make yourself the center of everyone’s attention in order to fulfill yourself and you prove us right with posts what you just did, you responded to your own excreta with more of the same! My bet is that you live quite a solitary existence because you can NEVER shut up around people, you always have to hear yourself talk and you think that YOUR OPINION is the only one that matters, everyone else is wrong and you go on your juvenile ad hominem rants calling everyone else idiots. Look at yourself, you’ve literally called everyone else here an idiot, maybe the sole idiot is you, o irritating little antisocial juvenile poodle dick!
I did not call everyone her idiots. The strongest phrasing I think I used is “most”.
No, API, he did not say that you all were MY idiots.
Yes Ma’am, I’ll take your word for it! ?
I told you why I have these issues with word substitutions.
It has been clinically proven by numerous tests and 3 different doctors to be caused by an issue that has nothing to do with education or literacy.
And it may be degenerative. It is likely CTE but they do not have a currently approved means of testing for it in a living person. Other symptoms are consistent with CTE.
Yet you seem to find personal purpose in constantly complain a ridiculing me for word substititutions.
Pretty vile behavior on your part.
Bullshit. You are unwilling to take responsibility for any of your mistakes. When people say ‘mistake’ you get defensive and then angry, and then you blame some amorphous ‘diagnosis’ that is a euphemism for nothing more than a bunch of brain farts.
You want fries with that?
I call BULLSHIT on that right alongside Ex-PH2, I’ve had plenty of setbacks in this life and I’ve overcome them! I have friends and acquaintances whose past problems and setbacks make mine look very tame, BUT GUESS WHAT? They took the attitude of “HELL NO, that’s not gonna hold me back!” as they overcame it and succeeded! YOU on the other hand, hold onto it along with “OH, poor me!” candyassed excuses while you use it as a stage prop trying to gather pity for you after you’ve run around the place shitting your diaper. I don’t think you made it very well in the Army, and you won’t make it much at all in civilian life as long as you run around being such a candyassed thin-skinned narcissistic poodle dick of an attention whore!
OH and yes, I’d like a hot apple pie with my burger and fries, chop-chop now!!!
Tips for getting along better at TAH:
1. Keep it to one paragraph if possible.
2. Keep that one paragraph on one topic, if possible.
3. Answers to responses are to be kept short, and on topic.
4. Limit responses to answers to about three, and then stop. Returning again and again tends to drive people nucking futs.
Bingo!
What you apparently haven’t learned is how to enhance your writing effectiveness so that simple spelling errors and fumbled keys do not detract from your message. When you deign to talk down to others, sonny, it’s best to have your own shit firmly together.
For a graduate student you’re not much of a writer, Lars. You’re both arrogant and careless, a recipe for disaster.
I previously posted why I have these issues with word substitutions.
It has been clinically proven by numerous tests and 3 different doctors to be caused by an issue that has nothing to do with education or literacy.
And it may be degenerative. It is likely CTE but they do not have a currently approved means of testing for it in a living person. Other symptoms are consistent with CTE.
I take the time to run my papers through autocorrect, and I have associates proofread them. I do not do it for comments on blog posts.
I write very well. Just write terrible first drafts.
I have no diagnosed pathology. I would likely be considered educated, because besides being a pervert I am a sort of long haul academic masochist.
I misspell and otherwise fukk up posts with regularity.
When the day comes that APA/MLA/AMA formatting is a requirement or college credit is offered here for posting, I will still most likely continue to fukk up and not give a damn. lol
Lars, what kind of cheese do you have with that WHINE?
That all sounds great! Except that I don’t think anyone here is afraid of communism, we just realize and recognize that it does not work. That is a proven fact in the history of the last 25-30 years, and we hate to see the left keep pushing this great nation toward that failed practice.
I mean no offense to anyone by speaking for the group.
Almost 100 million people would agree with you that communism does not work.
They would if they weren’t dead.
Far more than that, MrFace. The total offed by Communist dictatorships for political reasons in the former USSR and China alone exceeds that – and not by just one or two million. The total for the USSR and PRC alone is around 138M.
The USSR is estimated to have offed just short of 62M by politically-motivated government action. This does not include deaths due to war. For Communist China, the corresponding total is just over 76M.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM
That’s nearly 138M – and doesn’t include any other politically-motivated murders by communist regimes. I’d have to go extract those figures, but I’d guess those would swell the overall total to around 150M worldwide murdered by Communist governments/movements since 1900.
For comparison, the Nazis are believed to have murdered around 21M (again, not including combat-related deaths). Hitler was indeed an evil bastard – but his regime murdered far fewer people for political/other reasons than did either Mao’s PRC or the USSR’s communist leadership.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE3.HTM
RIP, Dr. Rummel. We’ll certainly miss you.
I did not realize the number was that high. Thank you for the links.
And Holy Crap!
I’m going to withhold judgement on the topic at hand until we have the whole story. There is not enough here for reasonable speculation, and potential for assholery from both sides.
That said, Lars’s mom should have swallowed.
Lars should have been a stain on some automotive upholstery at a drive-in movie theater.
Two posts about me. How was I relevant to your post? Why even add me to it?
You brought it on yourself, Commissar.
Because you’re an asshole and nobody likes you, Lars.
When Lars was a kid, his mom would stuff dog biscuits in his pockets just so the family dog would like him.
Maybe his parents hated him so badly that his only bathtub toys were a hair dryer and a toaster?
Scooby just gave me that look that says “I know I shouldn’t have let you watch Cool Hand Luke again last night.”
Bringing up SP8 Moerk’s name knowing that Lars is lurking in the background is the same as Luke boasting he could eat 50 eggs.
Yeah, well, it’s something to do until the Weekend Open Thread is posted.
What we have here is a failure to communicate…
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach.
You can’t help those who won’t help themselves and like one of my Mentors once said, “You can’t help a fool.”, and Lars has proven himself to be one ginormous attention-craving FOOL.
So, we have yet another topic that quickly becomes all about Lars.
Boring. Very, very boring.
Well, he is a pathological narcissist.
Maybe if you stopped talking about me so damn often fewer blog posts would end up discussing me.
Maybe if you stopped answering everyone who mentions your name, no one would discuss you.
Or maybe if you just stopped dropping by to see if anyone did mention your name, no one would miss you.
You want fries with that?
Stop being an asshole and we’ll see about not treating you like one.
^^^^LIKE^^^^
I did not make this about me.
Other posters did.
I posted a pretty innocuous position on the issue.
The problem is not the opinion you posted, Lars. The problem is YOU. It is not possible to have a civil discussion with you, because you have endeavored to be a rude, obnoxious, self-righteous cancer. YOU did that. Not us. I tried being civil with you, and acknowledged the rare moment when you had something insightful to say. You responded by being a giant douchebag. Those discussions are archived if you want to go back and look. Therefore, I treat you in kind, and so does everyone else.
You are a piece of shit. It has nothing to do with your opinions. The problem is YOU. Externalize your issues all you want, but they are still YOUR issues. You are an arrogant asshole who can’t admit that he’s wrong about anything. You’re an obnoxious prick who thinks he’s better and smarter than everyone else. You get no civility because you deserve none. Your mother should have taken you up her ass.
Lars, you make EVERYTHING about you.
Jonn, can we PLEASE put this dweeb on moderated status and approve maybe 5-10% of his posts so that the rest of us can read and comment in peace? I can handle a dissenting opinion; it’s the sheer VOLUME and extremely low signal-to-noise ratio that I can’t stand. I wish this board had an “ignore” function.
I suggest the addition of “Like” and “Dislike” buttons with the number of each vote posted. That and one’s comment can be either compressed with a “click here to view” button or deleted after a certain number of “minus” votes.
That is a way to make sure that political ideas that challenge the conventional wisdom of the board get lost, regardless of who posted them.
The ignore function just targets certain posters, not the ideas.
If I am a problem an ignore function solves it. It would also solve your constant trolling.
Sounds like Lars is worried that a dislike button would mean his “pearls of wisdom” would be lost to the masses.
Pearls of what?????
Oh, you are a funny, funny soul!
LOL!!
I’ve been a long time reader of this blog but never commented before.
Lar’s appears to be the kind of individual who loves the sound of his own voice and believes he is so much smarter than everyone else.
He has on occassion made a comment I agree with but I think it’s more of the blind squirrel anology than anything else.
*LIKE*
Yeah, I see “pearls” coming from Lars, they flow from him like a goat taking a #2 and they look like it, too!!! ?
Constant trolling?
Poodle, have you looked in the mirror latel?
I concur with the need for an ignore function.
Let the social market handle it.
Just STOP being such a thin-skinned arrogant juvenile imbecilic narcissist, that would be a Biblically huge improvement! I see you as the product of the “Touchie-feelie-everyone-gets-a-hug-and-a-trophy” system, my hypothesis is that you grew up either being adulated no matter what you did or your parents didn’t pay you any attention at all, this you do all you can to attract whatever attention you can to yourself to compensate and give yourself a feeling of accomplishment. You obviously didn’t last long in the Army, my guess is you were either mediocre or sub-par, I see your accusations of me being so as what Psychiatric Professionals refer to as “Projection” which was described by Freud as when one feels so insecure or afraid of their thoughts they project it onto others much like a robber accusing his therapist of wanting to do what he did, and I think that some of your past posted excreta and effluvia corroborates my deduction!
He is testing my limits. I mean, opinions are one thing but since he can’t remain on topic, I’m leaning towards putting him in a time out. I’ve been successful ignoring him until today without an ignore function.
DID YOU ORDER A CODE RED?!?!
The alternative option is to let him have a thread of his very own, just to see how many people don’t go there.
Hard to ignore when there are so many posts. He’s always been very Bernathian but now he’s ramped up to SHorTBuSs and Psul trifecta level.
Too many times, ignoring Lars means ignoring entire threads.
We could use the break, even if he couldn’t.
Case in point: Just now I looked at the list of “Recent Comments” on the sidebar. Six out of 15 comments were from Lars. No one (other than the blog owners) should be allowed to monopolize the conversation that way.
I will only add that there is SO much material here, almost enough for a full shrinks’ conference. He IS the very model of a modern major asshole.
I see what you did there! I’m so stealing this.
*Slow Clap* Bravo. Going to have to steal that.
Taylor, in comments to another article you said: “I am an asshole.” Below I’m going to repeat my response to your comment containing that statement.
Taylor, you are considered an a-hole here because you exhibit here a persona that could p!ss off a fence post. You perceive many here as “a-holes” because we are fed up with your abrasive and clearly unwarranted arrogance (among other issues) – and either tell you so in no uncertain terms, or are otherwise rude to you for precisely that reason.
You’re reasonably intelligent. You’re not the most intelligent individual here.
You’re reasonably successful. You’re not the most successful individual here.
You’re reasonably well educated. You’re not the most educated person here.
You’re also closed-minded; unwilling to do your homework before running your yap; make unsupported assertions, but when challenged are unwilling to back your arguments with fact; and are unwilling to admit errors (which you make frequently) even after they’ve been pointed out to you. People here react badly to any of those flaws. They react very badly towards someone who exhibits all of them simultaneously.
Act like something other than an smug, arrogant bastard with unwarranted delusions of grandeur and inflated self-importance, and you’ll be treated with much more civility. Otherwise, you’ll keep being deservedly treated like the a-hole you claim above you are.
No one died and made you God. Get a grip – and get over yourself.
^^^^Word^^^^
^^^LIKE^^^
Another perfectly good thread hijacked by rants from and about lard tator.
Enough already….
He JUST HAD TO inject and infest himself into the center of everyone’s attention like the DRG dingleberries always try to do!
Well, yeah, and everyone knows that he thrives on having all the attention on himself. My greater objection is with all those so willing to give him exactly what he wants.
But, hey – different strokes for different folks. So far, we are still free to decide for ourselves whether to feed trolls or just ignore them.
Everyone knows that he WILL respond to every post that mentions him, ya know, to “defend” himself from any imagined offense. Just seems to me that ignoring him would result in far less garbage for the rest of us to wade through.
Oh, but think of the practice we get in producing civilized rebuttals and ferociously untrammeled insults.
If you back through the entire thread, and other similar posts, you start to giggle, then you snort with laughter, and finally, the tears start streaming down your cheeks. You’d think that, after a while, he’d get the idea and stop showing up. If he just weren’t so desperate for attention, how long would this thread be? And what would the subject matter be?
But you’re quite right, OWB: it is a distraction.
But after the “tears down my cheeks” thing comes “my phone flying across the room” part which is starting to get expensive.
Keep a tennis ball or racketball nearby, and throw that instead. (smile)
The problem with failing to challenge blatantly untrue idiocy, OWB, is that after a time that unchallenged idiocy becomes accepted “fact” – something “everybody knows is true”.
Sort of like the “right to medical care” we keep hearing about. Ditto the mantra that “fewer guns means fewer gun deaths – and thus fewer deaths overall”. Both are not and never have been fact. But because those bits of idiocy went unchallenged for years, they came to be accepted as “fact” by the public – when they were actually BS from day one.
Successful unchallenged propaganda repeated over time can convince the public of the truth of damn near any asinine idea someone can conceive. No, it won’t convince everyone. There will always be those who think for themselves, seek the truth – and who afterwards recognize BS as BS.
But in a democracy, you don’t have to convince everyone. You only have to convince enough gullible fools to form a majority when combined with “true believers”.
In America today, there are one helluva lot of gullible fools.
Absolutely this-in an 140 character universe explaining things that might take 140 pages seems like a lost cause. But you have to keep doing it, a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth even puts on its pants, but you have to keep putting the truth out there or we are done. Hondo is completely correct about the need to keep fighting the good fight-never let the bastards go unchallenged.
No problem with the concept, since I am among the number actively fighting lefties for decades. It was often quite a lonely task, and now I am tired of hearing their lies. And observing their worn out tactics.
Now, my fingers are getting tired from scrolling past all the stuff in no way related to a topic just in case there might be something somewhere worth reading toward the end. Sometimes there is. Less often than it used to be.
The easiest option is to just stop reading a topic after the arrival of the troll. Kind of defeats the purpose of coming here.
I see the thread went splodey while I was gone, courtesy of lars.
Christ on a pony…
Another example of academic integrity displayed by the assclowns at TCU.
How very christian indeed professor to “fear” for your safety from a handicapped veteran because he dared to express the opinion that women who can’t hack it have no business on the business end of the spear. I read that article his opinion seems to mirror most of the actual female soldiers with any experience in the issue which is they don’t want standards lowered either because they know it will be hard enough to be accepted as it is.
American Universities pay lip service to the free exchange of ideas, but nothing more substantial than lip service because what they really mean by the free exchange of ideas is a sort of trickle down education, which works about as well as the economic mirror. Those at the top trickle down on those below who should just shut the fuck up and like it.
That’s not how it works Prof…it’s not how any of it works.
But go ahead and keep being the prissy little asshole you were born to be, secure in the knowledge you’re a big fish in a puddle.
is this a METHodist university
ha. I was close they are affiliated with disciples of Christ (Christian church) SJW of course. they are all about the lgbtqrstwyv
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/disciples-of-christ-chritians-beliefs/2015/04/02/id/636073/
If not for the sword the pen cloud not write. Joe
It appears that the vet took this whole thing to an attorney — and it appears that is where it belongs. He lost his veteran school benefits from this, and the administration has solidly blocked him from having any voice in the discussion about his conduct. The whole thing reads like the administration of the school was very heavy-handed. Without knowing exactly what he said and did in the classroom, I won’t side completely with the veteran at this point, but his treatment by the school makes me lean heavily in his direction.
So, a wee bit about ‘protected class’ (PC).
We have a Vet … a PC, who is reportedly disabled … a PC again.
And is thrown out of a class and given an “F” because teacher felt “whatever” and was “concerned” for others too becuase of his art, opinion and or academic work.
Well, I betcha a bag of Brooklyn donuts there are more than a few TX sized properly licensed lawyers lining up to pro bono for the Vet.
This situation is a payday!
Good for him!
God Bless America!
About liberal bias on campus, this article is long but interesting:
http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/02/a-conversation-with-jonathan-haidt/
“On January 11, John Leo, editor of “Minding the Campus,” interviewed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, one of the editors of the five-month-old site, “Heterodox Academy,” and perhaps the most prominent academic pushing hard for more intellectual diversity on our campuses. Haidt, 52, who specializes in the psychology of morality and the moral emotions, is Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business and author, most recently, of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012).”
From where I stand, these last two comments are a pair
Which remained on point from the start. This entire issue had nothing to do with Lars, yet his pseudo- intellectual arguments always interrupt the chain of thought, i. e., the subject we are discussing. It’s obvious he enjoys provoking logical discourse with his mental intercourse.
Were he to walk int the office of a psychiatrist and seek guidance in being conversational on a reasonable level, the psych would have visions of a new swimming pool and Jaguar dancing in his/her head…in the same fashion a person who had spent their life working outside under the sun would mirror similar thoughts in the mind of a Dermatologist when seeking help with all the dark spots on their body.
Tally as of this post:
Total number of posts 232
Total posts by Lars 33
Total posts favorable to Lars 0
Not being a mathematician, nor a shrink, something seems wrong in this conversation. Can somebody help me out?
14% of the posts are done by Lars… and 0% are favorable.
Damn, that MBA degree came in handy to do the New Math!
Does that mean we now refer to Lars as “The 14% man”?