Jun 7, 2023·edited Jun 7, 2023Liked by Matthew Garrett
The sheer hypocrisy of these people is absolutely breathtaking. From the InsideHigherEd piece linked in the article:
Quote:
"After Black students, faculty and community members raised concerns about the institute and the recent EODAC meeting, Trustee John Corkins responded that institute members represent a small percentage of faculty who are “abusive” and “disrespectful.”
"They’re in that 5 percent that we have to continue to cull,” he said at the meeting. “Got them in my livestock operation, and that’s why we put a rope on some of them and take them to the slaughterhouse. That’s a fact of life with human nature and so forth. I don’t know how to say it any clearer.”
He later issued an apology.
“My remarks were intended to show support for the students who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting and their struggles with feeling accepted and welcome in our district,” he said in an email statement to Inside Higher Ed. “In the course of doing that, I used a reference that could be interpreted as threatening. I did not say faculty should be taken to the slaughterhouse, but I apologize to anyone who felt threatened or was offended."
End quote.
Did everyone catch the lie there?
"I did not say faculty should be taken to the slaughterhouse."
But that's EXACTLY the comparison he made!
Now just take two seconds and imagine if Garrett or another conservative member of the faculty had said the same thing about their LEFT WING opponents!
Imagine that Garrett had said: "They’re in that 5 percent that we have to continue to cull. Got them in my livestock operation, and that’s why we put a rope on some of them and take them to the slaughterhouse. That’s a fact of life with human nature and so forth. I don’t know how to say it any clearer.”
What do you think the reaction would have been THEN?
Like I said, the hypocrisy on display here, the sheer double-standard at play, is just breathtaking.
Sacrificed on the Altar of “Racial Equity”: Reflections of a Canceled Professor
The sheer hypocrisy of these people is absolutely breathtaking. From the InsideHigherEd piece linked in the article:
Quote:
"After Black students, faculty and community members raised concerns about the institute and the recent EODAC meeting, Trustee John Corkins responded that institute members represent a small percentage of faculty who are “abusive” and “disrespectful.”
"They’re in that 5 percent that we have to continue to cull,” he said at the meeting. “Got them in my livestock operation, and that’s why we put a rope on some of them and take them to the slaughterhouse. That’s a fact of life with human nature and so forth. I don’t know how to say it any clearer.”
He later issued an apology.
“My remarks were intended to show support for the students who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting and their struggles with feeling accepted and welcome in our district,” he said in an email statement to Inside Higher Ed. “In the course of doing that, I used a reference that could be interpreted as threatening. I did not say faculty should be taken to the slaughterhouse, but I apologize to anyone who felt threatened or was offended."
End quote.
Did everyone catch the lie there?
"I did not say faculty should be taken to the slaughterhouse."
But that's EXACTLY the comparison he made!
Now just take two seconds and imagine if Garrett or another conservative member of the faculty had said the same thing about their LEFT WING opponents!
Imagine that Garrett had said: "They’re in that 5 percent that we have to continue to cull. Got them in my livestock operation, and that’s why we put a rope on some of them and take them to the slaughterhouse. That’s a fact of life with human nature and so forth. I don’t know how to say it any clearer.”
What do you think the reaction would have been THEN?
Like I said, the hypocrisy on display here, the sheer double-standard at play, is just breathtaking.