It's Fine to Call for the Firing of Randa Jarrar

April 24, 2018 By Robert Oscar Lopez

 

"Conservatives should not want Randa Jarrar to be fired," conservative writer Megan McArdle lectures us from (what a surprise!) the Washington Post. In case you missed it, Randa Jarrar has tenure in an English department at Fresno State University in California. She tweeted vile remarks about Barbara Bush in the wake of Mrs. Bush's death. The tweets were not only incoherent, but also reflective of a dark, morbid inhumanity. Prof. Jarrar compounded her stupidity by then musing that because she is tenured, she can never be fired. This YouTube compilation gives a quick overview of Prof. Jarrar's rather provocative intellectual output as a "queer woman of color"...........

The entire mystique of academic freedom is nonsense.  

I have written voluminously about this, but if you do not want to read Wackos Thugs & Perverts, then feel free to read this short piece.  The university system is based on tenure, which nullifies every romantic thing you have ever heard about academic freedom.  In fact, the committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) that deals with academic freedom is also the committee that deals with tenure.  That is because only tenured people have academic freedom.........Tenure needs to be taken down, so let's start with this person..........Read more