Leftist Professor's Hatemail to U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet (my title)

Nealz Nuze ^ | Nov 6, 2002 | Neal Boortz

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Neal said it all....."Tomorrow he’ll be right back at work poisoning the minds of those wide-eyed kids entrusted to his care."

[KellyAdmirer]

I wouldn't call him a Communist, Karl Marx sounds like a reactionary compared to this guy. How he must hate living in a world where there are any guns at all! That is punishment enough for the likes of him.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Peter N. Kirstein
Professor of History
Department of History & Political Science
Saint Xavier University
Chicago, IL
Phone: 773.298.3283
Fax: 773.779.9061
kirstein@sxu.edu

[wideawake]

He hasn't apologized.

He said that he expressed "regrets". I'm sure he does regret making his hatred of America so explicitly known that it has had a negative effect on his career.

At no point does he say "I was wrong, I am sorry, I apologize".

He's a sniveling coward - and note how he put the cadet's apologies in quotation marks - implying that he felt the cadet's apologies were insincere.

All we need to know about Kirstein is this: if it were 1940, he would be marching in the streets to protest America going to war with Hitler, solely because his hero Stalin had signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis.

That is his moral caliber.

[Cachelot]

But tomorrow he’ll be right back at work poisoning the minds of those wide-eyed kids entrusted to his care.

In a more circumspect manner, I'm sure.

[CurlyDave]

Freeped.

[stayout]

No war, no air force cowards who bomb countries with AAA . . .

Wow, I never knew the U.S.A.F. hated the Auto Club so much.

[Bahbah]

The professor also does not know the proper use of the word "reign".

[fourdeuce82d]

I just sent the following email to him-

Dear Dr. Kirstein-

Thank you for your intemperate, illluminating letter to the Air Force Academy Cadet. This sort of over-the-top, panties-in-a-twist squawling is EXACTLY what we militarists need to cut you lefties off at the knees.

Impugning this kid's honor, comparing members of the military to the nut-job snipers...your note is a shining & perfect example of the lefty hysteria so prevalent on American campuses today.

I'm sure your note is going to show up in newspapers and newsweeklies across the country- certainly radio talk shows are going to mention it- I imagine you're going to be recieving ever so many calls for interviews and comments.

But...you will probably not be afforded the opportunity to explain your views in any detail- you have already been pigeonholed as a loon. The only thing anyone is going to remember or hear about is your abusive email to the cadet. That email is going to make the rounds, and it is going to help us tar opponents of the war as whiny, unpatriotic, rude and intemperate nutjobs.

Again, I want to extend my sincere thanks to you for splatting a custard pie in the face of the left- reading your letter this morning made my day!

[hellinahandcart]

Who, top guns to reign death and destruction upon nonwhite peoples throughout the world?

Who else thinks it's funny that a college prof doesn't know how to spell "rain"?

[sport]

Bump for later reading

[VOA]

bump

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Thanks for posting his photo... you beat me to it.

More from the professor's web site:

My Teaching Philosophy

1. Teaching is a moral act.
2. Teach peace, freedom, diversity, multiculturalism and challenge American unilateralism.
3. Move beyond the ideological confines of academe.
4. Instructors should be secure and unafraid to express their opinions. They have every right to do so and should be free to engage in academic revisionism in their field.
5. When emphasizing key concepts in your field, confront the canon so that your "discipline" is challenged by questions and not affirmed with answers.
6. Be demanding and have high expectations for your students. They will respond positively if they sense you are hard working, love your subject matter and are dedicated to their learning.
7. Encourage student discussion and debate. Let them know you like to be challenged and that your ideas and values are not a form of proselytizing or domination but a honest effort at conversation.
8. Teach what interests you even in a required "core" course.
9. Publish papers and attend conferences that interest you. They always energize me and give me new ideas and fresh material for my teaching.
10. Be prepared for occasional frustration when students don't always respond to your enthusiasim and dreams.
11. Be who you are; don't try to reinvent yourself should you possibly be challenged by institutional culture. While you should be receptive to new ideas and respond affirmatively to formative and creative criticism, teaching is an intensely personal act-despite its public posture-and one should be true to one's beliefs and ethics.

[Stars N Stripes]

If you would like to voice your concerns to the University as I did.

mailto:webmaster@sxu.edu

[wideawake]

Good point. I also noticed how exiguous his graps of English grammar and orthography is.

It's forgivable in a poster, but pathetic in an academic.

[dennisw]

He looks like a cross between Donna Shalayla and Janet Reno. He must really love to perform in front of his captive audience of college kids.

[richardtavor]

I just emailed the president of Saint Xavier and asked that he fire this idiot. here was his reply:

In fact I am looking into the very matter you mentioned.
I am concerned about isolated instances and about
underlying competence. This will be a tough one,
however, because of the courts' consistent protection
of academic freedom. It is not sufficient to prove a
professor "incompetent." The standards is "gross
incompetence" and it is very difficult to meet for
tenured professors. With best regards,
-- Dr. Richard Yanikoski, president

I ask that all freepers that see this as a total injustice to that cadet to email the president and express your concerns. Surely someone that knows nothing of history should be teaching it....

[wideawake]

By the way - I found an interesting stat:

Xavier University of Chicago freshman class gender breakdown: 72% women, 28% men.

[texson66]

Does the "professor" have tenure? If yes, he should be the poster boy to end tenure at all universities.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

I hear he's a big fan of Marty Feldman.