Blast From the Past: Professor Grover Furr Praises Stalin, Claims He Never Committed ‘One Crime’

November 5, 2012 by Gabriella Hoffman Leave a Comment 

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A professor at a public university recently denied Soviet Union Leader Joseph Stalin was responsible for the murder of millions, saying he has “yet to find one crime – one crime that Stalin committed.” “I know they say he killed 20, 30, 40 million people,” continued Grover Furr, a professor in Medieval English at Montclair State University.

“It’s bullshit.”

Grover Furr of Montclair State University said he has yet to find “one crime that Stalin committed.”  Furr made the comments at a campus debate featuring three individuals supposedly representing conservative, liberal, and libertarian political views.  Following the debate, a student pressed Furr on his comments reminding the professor that most historians believe “100 to 150 million people [were] killed by communist regimes.”  The professor, however, doubled down on his original comment.............. To Read More....

My Take – As you watch this video please take note that there are idiots in this audience….and not just a few…..that are applauding this man.  Is it any wonder that these kids are coming out of college over educated and under smart?  This guy may be more outspoken in this view than many of his academic colleagues, but he is clearly expressing the overall view they all share about socialism and communism....and his denialism over Stalin's crimes isn't isolated to him.  

 

"Furr has been accused of academic malpractice by conservative professor Ronald Radosh, who called for his firing from Montclair State University and argued that “tenure should not be used to protect his employment”. Radosh writes “Grover Furr is not a distinguished scholar. He is a pedantic hack; a man who pretends to disprove with scores of footnotes all of his ideological opponents — as if endless citations prove that he is right — indeed anyone who casts aspersion on his beloved hero Joseph Stalin. If Furr uses his classroom to make these same arguments, as readily appears to be the case, it is a different matter. 

 

In the 1950s, in a seminal essay, the late philosopher Sidney Hook argued that while a Communist had a right to his opinions and to enter them in the marketplace of ideas, he did not have the right to be hired by a university to teach these ideas as the truth, and to use the classroom as an arena to indoctrinate students with lies meant to affirm the viability of the movement to which he has sworn loyalty.”^{[29] - Wikipedia}

 

Also:When Joseph Stalin Demolished Grover Furr

 

What is the solution?  Defund the universities and make them all independent “for profit” institutions.  Make them compete and those that survive will have survived because they turned out successful students, who actually will know how to think; versus the mush brains they are turning out now that have only been taught what to think.