Hat tip Sodahead
Todd Starnes, writing in Fox News, describes what happened to a professor at Alameda College (Bay area) when he wrote a letter to a local newspaper questioning the college's decision to create a
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/professor-who-questioned-lgbt-class-faced-probe.html
That's pretty typical for the lunacy that reigns supreme in the Bay area. They can't even print the professor's name because we all know the kinds of threats people face when they offend the wrong people.
And note that according to the article, the professor's reasons are not about homophobia, rather about budget priorities and appearances of nepotism. Yet, this person was subjected to a 4-month-long investigation by the college for sexual harassment? Gimme a break.
Why is it homophobic to question the worthiness of this kind of department in a university? What benefit does it offer a student to major in this? I can see a couple of classes here and there, but not a departmental chair. In the case of California, the money is not there-unless, of course, the college takes it away from some other program.
Let's be honest. These departments are not interested in any serious study of homosexuality. They are more interested in promoting it, celebrating it, and bashing heterosexuals as being intolerant. Like many other victim groups, they refuse to smell the coffee and celebrate the fact that America has come a long way-in my lifetime yet- in accepting gay persons for what they are and not forcing them to live in the closet. I applaud that, but I still don't think it justifies establishing a departmental chair on the subject.
So who wants to accuse me of "sexual harrasment"?
4 comments:
Try getting a real job with a Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender Studies, BA. All that debt with no practical skills to offer an employer. So, when the jobs do not come, it will be all homophobia.
Squid
The colleges are to liberalism what the seminaries are to religion. Colleges and universities serve to produce more liberals just as seminaries are clearly created to produce more priests. There is no question about what the seminaries are for yet the schools obfuscate their true intentions.
Squid is right. What is the economic value of a LGBT major to an employer who would like to make a profit? It is the same for Women's Studies majors or those who choose say, black history or "Diversity Studies". It may help get a contract in an ideological research assignment from a wasteful Democratic administration but that's about it.
The Liberals can't understand that their policies just don't work. Their agenda is different, as this story demonstrates.
1) The new program is sheer lunacy. A degree in any kind of sexuality isn't going to be useful anywhere except in a brothel.
2) The accusation of "harassment" based on the letter is without foundation. That's an objective statement which avoids the pitfalls of the epithets which come to mind first: petty, juvenile, idiotic, whiny...
3) An investigation is an investigation. Maybe the charge didn't merit going to the trouble, but maybe they have to formally investigate before deciding there is no basis to take disciplinary measures.
4) Refraining from discussing the matter pending investigation is routine and not entirely unreasonable.
5) No disciplinary action was taken.
6) By and large, justice was done, and if I was this professor, I would resume saying exactly what I thought of the whole thing.
P.S. There are other reasons for going to college than pleasing an employer. I daresay most classical studies don't look profitable to an employer, per se. But this program would seem to have no more to recommend it than any navel contemplation, except focused a bit further down the anatomy.
Siarlys,
Your comment about the brothel is the best comment you have made on this site. There is hope for you.
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