Student Alleges Prof Warned Ted Cruz-Teabaggers to Leave Class or go Home in Body Bag
The student and professor are from UC Santa Barbara. If this is true, it’s pretty serious.
Austin Yack writes at The College Fix.
Student: Prof Warns Ted Cruz-Teabaggers To Leave Class Or Go Home In Body Bag
SANTA BARBARA – Alice Gilbert can vividly recall her first day of class last fall in a black studies course called “The Obama Phenomenon” offered by Professor Otis Madison at UC Santa Barbara.
That’s because before his introductory lecture was over, the scholar “warned Ted Cruz-supporting ‘teabaggers’ to get the hell out of his classroom before he sent them home to their mother in a body bag,” Gilbert said in an email interview with The College Fix.
“The comment is from memory, however there were other students with me in the class who can attest to them,” Gilbert said. “When Professor Madison made his comments in the very first lecture, I was taken aback and offended.”
Gilbert said as a conservative student, she enrolled in the course to broaden her horizons and learn about the president from a perspective other than what she is normally exposed to, but dropped it after Madison’s remarks.
She never complained to administrators.
“He did not target me by name, so I did not feel that there was a lot the school could do based on a student just being offended by something said in class,” said Gilbert, a junior and statewide College Republican student leader.
Gilbert is telling her story now as part of the new social media campaign #MyLiberalCampus, in which students post anecdotal evidence describing when their conservative beliefs have been disregarded or denigrated by professors or peers.
The effort, launched by the College Republican National Committee, strives to highlight the discrimination and intolerance conservative students face everyday on campuses nationwide. So far, more than 350,000 people have engaged in the conversation.
Student: Prof Warns Ted Cruz-Teabaggers To Leave Class Or Go Home In Body Bag (The College Fix)
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A lot of folks at universities today are Nazis goose stepping in lockstep. In true Hitlerian fashion, they will tolerate no dissent, permit no other point of view to be heard. These people are dangerous.
Sorry, that thumbs down was a result of my clutzy fingers not my opinion of your comment which I think is very good!
The Higher Ed Bubble cannot explode soon enough!
Not surprised, I am an adult living in a small college town where pretty much everybody is academically connected. I recently told a good friend of mine that I thought Ted Cruz would make a great president. The response? “If you think that our friendship is over.” Not even a “What leads you to think that Ted Cruz would be a good president?”. I am shocked at the response but not surprised in the least. This is the prevailing sentiment. The personal problem for me is that the number of my friends is dwindling fast and I’m sad about it because I am a people person and love to be around people.
OK, I thought things were bad in the early 90’s, with the Creative Underground Network of Truthful Sisters vandalizing cars near the frat houses (not knowing, or caring, if the victims were actually in a fraternity)and plastering the campus with their posters with thinly veiled threats of firearm assault against men.
The UCSB professors have joined the kooks, and both are completely unhinged now…
Hold him too his words! I’ll bet the coward is all talk.
I just wish people would learn to think instead of feel. Maybe the woman ‘thought’ that there was nothing she could say about the jerk Prof.
That is not a matter of “being offended”. That is a death threat, and should be treated as such.
Surely, Professor Otis Madison at UC Santa Barbara, was engaging in
hyperbole. That said, students have a right to attend class without
being intimidated by the professor or the other students in the room.
Presumably, the majority of the other attendees registered for this
particular class precisely because they wanted to hear Professor Madison laud and extol the virtues of Obama and his administration.
Gilbert said as a conservative student, she enrolled in the course to broaden her horizons and learn about the president from a perspective other than what she is normally exposed to, but dropped it after Madison’s remarks.
You got the perspective in ONE lesson. Consider it a life credit. A win-win.