April 20, 2011
University of Iowa professor demonstrates current state of tolerance on campus
University of Iowa Professor Ellen Lewin apparently didn't get the message about tolerance and civility preached by our Liberal Overlords after the Arizona shootings in January.
Lewin, who "teaches" Anthropology and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies in the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, received a campus-wide email (approved for distribution by the university administration) from College Republicans announcing their Conservative Coming Out Week event; she was not amused.
Lewin put her PhD to work, using her superior intellect and evolved moral stature to write an appropriate response, via her University of Iowa email account.
"F*@K YOU, REPUBLICANS"
The university went into damage control mode, and Lewin offered a half-hearted apology in her first emailed follow-up, which was then diminished by her next email, wherein she essentially took the apology back, complaining (unironically) that the head of the College Republicans hadn't shown her the proper deference and respect when referring to her as "Ellen," instead of Professor F.U.
My favorite comment is from a parent, who posted this on the linked blog:
Hey Ellen, I am not a student. I am, however, the parent of a student at Iowa. I am paying full tuition right out of my pocket. My daughter was in one of your classes. She fell into it during her freshman year as a necessity. Gen Ed requirements you know; kind of your bread and butter, huh? She filled me in regarding the jackassery you teach. We had some good laughs. You gave my daughter a good grade and never even knew she regarded you a rather worthless, dried up old scrunt.
You did provide her an education, however, but not as you intended. I told my daughter that it is part of her education to learn how the other side thinks. She is to observe you and understand you. She is Jane Goodall watching the chimps of Tanzania through the forest. She is there to observe your behavior, to learn the way you think and act. She isn’t there to attempt to change you; you can’t be changed. She is to watch and learn so that she can deal with people like you in her life and career.
You made an OUTSTANDING subject for her to observe and study. In learning about how you think, she learned how you and the intellectual corruption you represent will be defeated.
I love the Jane Goodall reference, conservative students observing whackjob academic loons in their natural habitat.
What a marvelous example of academic freedom and tolerance for intellectual diversity. Ellen Lewin, you are quite a prize. Congratulations.The University of Iowa must be so proud.
Posted by Mike Lief at April 20, 2011 11:33 AM
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