Posted on 04/14/2006 9:02:31 AM PDT by sionnsar
The great thing about the American left is how reasonable, civilized and open to dialogue it is. Take these people:
Officials at the Ohio State University are investigating an OSU Mansfield librarian for “sexual harassment” after he recommended four conservative books for a freshman reading program. ADF has demanded that OSU cease its frivolous investigation, yet the university is pressing forward, claiming that it takes the charges “seriously.”
“Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom. “It is shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university.”
Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.
On March 28, ADF sent OSU officials a letter informing them of Savage’s constitutional rights. A copy of the letter can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/OSUMansfieldletter.pdf. The university so far has declined to stop the investigation, saying in its response that it takes “any allegation of sexual harassment seriously.”
“The OSU Mansfield faculty is attempting to label a librarian as a ‘sexual harasser’ because they disagree with his book suggestions,” said French. “It is astonishing that an entire faculty would vote to launch a sexual harassment investigation because a librarian offered book suggestions in a committee whose purpose was to solicit such suggestions.”
Then there's this lady.
A professor at Northern Kentucky University said she invited students in one of her classes to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus Wednesday evening.
NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground near University Center and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses, had been temporarily erected last weekend by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials.
Public universities cannot ban such displays because they are a type of symbolic speech that has been protected by the U.S. Supreme Court.Witnesses reported "a group of females of various ages" committing the vandalism about 5:30 p.m., said Dave Tobertge, administrative sergeant with the campus police.
Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU’s literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.
"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.Asked whether she participated in pulling up the crosses, the professor said, "I have no comment."
She said she was infuriated by the display, which she saw as intimidating and a "slap in the face" to women who might be making "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion.’"
Jacobsen said it originally wasn’t clear who had placed the crosses on campus.
She said that could make it appear that NKU endorsed the message.
Pulling up the crosses was similar to citizens taking down Nazi displays on Fountain Square, she said.
"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.
You can contact Jacobsen here. But first, explain to me again exactly how conservatives are the ones who want to impose morality and crush dissent.
Pulling up the crosses was similar to citizens taking down Nazi displays on Fountain Square, she said.
Hey radical feminist...leave the books and crosses alone.
"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.
She's outraged by crosses but supports the murder of millions of innocents every year.
Remarkable.
Not the response I recall when some Texans pulled down Sheehan's symbolic crosses near the President's ranch.
Contrast this story with the "propaganda" that profs like Ward Churchill and others are promoting at colleges and universities and it makes this story is even more disgraceful.
So this is all about you and your feelings, professor? You need to grow up, lady. Or go sit in the corner for throwing a temper tantrum.
Both are willing to us violence and coercive institutional power to force 'respect' for their opinions.
The only difference is that the illiberal left in the West are cowards, so they seek to experience vicariously the thrill of their fantasies of 'revolutionary' redemptive violence through the head-choppers or bone-headed Third World revolutionary thugs.
The modern left: unalloyed moral evil combined with infantilism.
Wouldn't taking Down the crosses be similar to putting UP the Nazi displays on Fountain Sq.?
I can imagine. "Class, I have more to say about the Vaginal Monologues, but I want us to take a break for just a minute. Okay? We're on break. We're not in class. I say we get together tonight and destroy that pro-life piece of trash! Who's with me? Okay! Back to the Vagina Monologues"
Savage was put under “investigation”
"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.
Now, now, just because you don't like the message that doesn't give you the right to censor it.
-the American Left whenever they do a hateful anti American demonstration....
Can we get the names of the fascist professors who complained about these library recommendations? Perhaps they need to get a barrage of complaints. How sickening and odious. They are probably the first ones to scream how Bush and Gonzales are taking away our rights.
I don't know if I should list Mr Savage's email here but it is a matter of public record. Go to the staff directory page on the OSU Mansfield site and it is there. Perhaps he needs some words of support.
Btw, the first thing you see on the university's front page is a headline talking about the celebration of "diversity" during Black History Month on campus. Diversity my foot.
freedom of speech = right to destroy property? That's not too far from Muslim freedom of speech = right to kill those they disagree with.
For the left, tolerance is something to be demanded from others, not offered by themselves.
They do not actually know the definition of it, or are actively working to change it. Another example of "He who succeeds in defining the rhetoric of any debate has usually already won the debate"
Oh, thanks. That was good reading.
I conctaced Jacobson last week. Sent her an email. She has yet to respond. Coward.
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