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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Character Sketches of Academic Loons Having just retired from 40 years in academia and being mindful of the observation by communist-turned-conservative Whittaker Chambers that he had “not returned from Hell empty-handed,” I’m offering the following sketches of professorial types. These were academics who in some cases were my colleagues at various institutions and who in other cases I heard about from those teaching elsewhere. No claim is being made that my list is exhaustive. Readers are free to add their own loonies to my Gallery of Grotesques. The PC Nature-Lover She is particularly savage in blasting Western nations “where people just eat and consume.” She contrasts this nasty behavior to the way Third World countries lovingly husband their sparse resources. When asked (by me) whether we should allow Third World inhabitants to move into our already polluted regions where they might further stress the ecosystem, she expressed shock. It should be clear that Third World immigrants, particularly from Latin America, are “ecologically safe.” From speaking to this person I gather that only light-skinned people in the US, and more especially the white Protestant majority, munch on junk food and litter the sidewalk. The Socially Conscious Sociologist This lady (quite broadly speaking) also advises the lavishly funded campus gay-lesbian organization and prepares its complaints against the insufficiently sensitive members of the college community. These documents are useful for bullying college administrators who are terrified of lawsuits. They can also be submitted to government agencies that may be inclined to launch preemptive attacks against stubborn enclaves of hate-thinkers. The Tenured Holocaust Nut Being seen as a Holocaust victim-by-proxy allows the cardholder to engage in free association. Insisting that the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews was uniquely evil, for example, does not prevent the grumbler from claiming that other preferred groups suffered genocide as well. These other groups most definitely do not include those murdered by Soviet or Chinese communists nor, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, such unfashionable Nazi victims as the Poles, who were only selectively killed. But Holocaust language can and has been extended by academic experts to Bosnian Muslims, Somalian animists, blacks under slavery, and even Native Americans, who lose funding for their landmarks. A law of PC usage: Holocaust clout reaches its natural limits when it clashes with the desire for recognition among other approved victims, especially the ones that scream loudest. The Academic Parenters The offspring are almost always messed-up real bad. If only they had been blessed with the opportunity to grow up in relatively sane family units—perhaps among hard-shell Baptists in Arkansas or in a polygamous Mormon compound in the Utah desert! Then these victims of academic madness would have been given a relatively level playing field. Like other youngsters they would have acquired honest-to-goodness “gender roles” and perhaps even been taught such useful vocations as embalming bodies or fixing mopeds. The worst of these sickies are the progeny of college administrators, whose parents are too busy making careers to notice youthful disasters waiting to happen. I know of cases where academic moms and pops are doing the administration thing thousands of miles apart while junior gets flung back and forth between them like a ping-pong ball. One of the more successful efforts at rehab in such a situation is the case of the son of academic administrators whom I learned about from a former colleague. Still in less-than-stable condition, this fellow nonetheless managed to become gainfully employed after a twenty-year emotional derailment. His job, which consists of drying soapy cars at an auto rinse, pays minimum wage, yet it allows him to do what is really important in his life—namely, attending drug-rehab classes at night. This guy once had dealings with a woman but wasn’t quite sure of his sexual identity, even after procreating. When he’s not wiping down cars and gulping down methadone, he experiments with other sexual-orientation choices. Perhaps his child will be lucky enough to break out of this cycle of lunacy, but not if academic administrators such as his grandparents get to socialize him. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
I KNOW THEM! I KNOW THEM! I remember Edith (not her real name) who was a holocaust surviving, Orthodox raised, Reform Jew English Professor. "You just have to save the Gay Gray Whales!" She was highly supportive of the G.L.B.T. XYZ agenda but was not terribly fond of White Goys. She would certainly never want her son or daughter to marry one.
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