They are right

I was just visiting YouTube and watched what was listed as a suggested video:

A lot of these professors are scum. I had a professor once for a “literature” class – I put it in quotes because it was more like pure bullshit – at a “liberal” college that was atrocious. I see the video that the professor puts on the screen – something that was deliberately left out of other videos I’ve seen of this supposedly terrible occurrence – and I actually think the Muslims in the audience who are pissed off are the sane ones. I especially admire the first man who got up and tried to stop the video.

For me at least it has nothing to do with tolerating others’ personal choices, it has to do with the absolute bullshit of the professor putting that shit on the screen and forcing his class to watch it.

I still feel upset to this day about what we were forced to read in that “literature” class and I feel a little bit guilty for not having stood up against it. To be clear: What the professor in the video above did, and what the professor in my lit class did years ago, was mass sexual abuse. In the instance of the video above, at least members of the class had the integrity and sense to stand up against it. In my class, all of us were too young and naive to really understand how we were being abused and to stand up against it.

The bottom line is some people in academia are total pieces of shit and should not be teaching. And, even more important, educational institutions need to do oversight to prevent this kind of mass abuse. If a student enrolls for a literature class they expect to study literature, not to be the victim of abusive shit spewed at them by warped professors with agendas.

This to me is very similar to the stupidity of the “Je Suis Charlie” thing, which was also utter bullshit. Losers who sit around with nothing better to do than to deliberately provoke people so that they can claim to be at the vanguard of promoting human rights – while they offend people – is just sick.

Honestly, I think I would feel much better today if people like those in this classroom had been in my classroom years ago and had protested against the piece of shit professor. There are things – like pornography – that have no place in academia except in very specific contexts where perhaps pornography is an actual subject of academic research.

But we know what the context was in this class – it was bullshit related to a professor trying to be “progressive” or “liberal” or whatever. Total bullshit and an act of mass abuse against all the unfortunate students who had to be exposed to it!

The people in that classroom – I will not even differentiate them as Muslim or non-Muslim – who stood up and protested that act of abuse were totally right.