One thing you have to say about the Left: They never miss an opportunity to let the mask of hatred slip. It’s practically Pavlovian; they are so invested in the myth of their own righteousness that their “tolerance” fetish goes right out the window whenever they suffer the slightest affront to their delusional notion of how the world works.
Truly, these folks have the self-esteem of an abused pit bull. From the Iowa Republican:
A University of Iowa professor felt the need to reply to a blast email by the College Republicans on Monday morning. Ellen Lewin, a professor of Anthropology and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies in the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, sent a vulgar response to a College Republican email about the group’s, “Conservative Coming Out Week.”
The College Republican email, which was sent to the entire University of Iowa Community, had been approved by a number of university officials before being sent out.
Lewin responded to email by writing, “#*@% [F-Word] YOU, REPUBLICANS” from her official university email account.
This is why pushing back against them is so important: Like President Obama, they’re not used to real opposition. They’re unused to being questioned. They consider any challenge to their bogus “moral authority” (based on what, one might ask?) to be tantamount to treason.
Especially when you are doing the Lord’s work, laboring in the fruitless and barren academic vineyard of Anthropology and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies in the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at a major university. If the taxpayers of Iowa feel the need to start budget-cutting, the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies sounds like a good place to start.
By the way, I love “Conservatives Coming Out Week.” As David Kahane argues in Rules for Radical Conservatives, turn their own tactics against them. Force the tolerance issue. Hit them with Alinsky’s Rule No. 4: “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” Above all, celebrate diversity!
Because, you know what? They can’t handle the truth:
In an email to the College Republicans, Professor Lewin wrote, “This is a time when political passions are inflamed, and when I received your unsolicited email, I had just finished reading some newspaper accounts of fresh outrages committed by Republicans in government. I admit the language was inappropriate, and apologize for any affront to anyone’s delicate sensibilities. I would really appreciate your not sending blanket emails to everyone on campus, especially in these difficult times.
Welcome to Potemkin, Iowa.
Hmmm. What other groups send or have sent out blanket e-mails to the entire campus, to which Professor Lewin has expressed no objection?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"turn their own tactics against them. Force the tolerance issue. Hit them with Alinsky’s Rule No. 4: 'Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.'”
Is this really a tactic of "the left?" It sounds no different than pointing out hypocrisy, which is something all political factions do. Sometimes it seems like pointing out hypocrisy is ALL either side does, in terms of political point scoring.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Hit them with Alinsky’s Rule No. 4: 'Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.'"
They'll just change the rules and pretend that's what they've always done, like war with Oceania.
You can't shame the shameless.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe CRs should remember that "apology" the next time they get unsolicited blanket emails from the Department of Gender, Women’s & Se*uality Studies. (Someone please please please fix the language filters on here - if the author can use the word in a post, I should be able to use it in a comment without getting flagged).
And I'm not sure why being unable to control your own emotions while reading a newspaper should constitute an excuse for vulgarly lashing out at an individual or group, especially one that did not do any of the things you claim to be so incensed about.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn light of the fact that women are now in the majority of college graduating classes, law school graduating classes, and income in the young adult demographic, and that the old unequal pay for equal work myth has been debunked by comparing the fact that men in the same jobs as women generally work longer hours, we can sympathize with the short fuse of a Women's Studies academician. As women come to equal and surpass men, there's not a lot left for a Women's Studier to study, is there?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"As women come to equal and surpass men, there's not a lot left for a Women's Studier to study, is there?"
Why? There's still women, right? Can't one continue to study women, even if discrimination against them has ended?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusei can't stop laughing at "Department of Gender".
Liberals may simply be a proper subset of the set of all people who have sabotaged and forfeited their own maturity.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe professor's response is yet another Alinskyite ploy that is used all the time by union organizers and negotiators when they try by direct request or by campaigning among sympathetic journalists to get their opponents to forswear their most effective strategies and tactics.
@Jason, rules of Alinsky are most definitely of the left.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe richest gem in this story is that weepy "especially in these dificult times".
Note that the left was in a rabid fury when the GOP controlled both houses, and Mr. Bush was in the White House. Of course they were mad, they were locked out.
Then, they won BOTH houses..... and their vituperative fury did not abate one iota. THEN, they held both houses and won the White House. And their vituperative fury abated not one iota. Not a millimeter.
And now, still holding the Senate and White House, with an embarrasingly compliant MSM, culture and media, poor widdle Professor Lewin can barely tolerate "these difficult times." It is to weep for her.
It is difficult. She and her ilk do not have enough power over us. And when they control the entire government.... it is still not enough power over us. That lack of that power over the rest of us is called "difficult times" that she cries herself into her pillow over every night, no doubt.
Buck up, sweetheart. Your "difficult times" are just building up a head of steam. We intend to make them a lot more "difficult", and probably have some jolly good fun while doing it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseD.C. al Fine, I'm sure Alinsky wrote his rules for the left, but the rule cited here is no different than what everyone does when arguing.
Look at the first comment in this thread by DavidJ. He's accusing Lewin of hypocrisy, which is exactly what Alinsky's rule 4 says to do.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLong time ago, in my undergraduate days, a Poly Sci prof told me that the university's reasoning for a Women's Studies Department could equally apply to Republicans on campus hence there should be a Republican Studies Department. But he wasn't holding his breath on that one.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAccording to her webpage, Ellen Lewin (or simple Ellen, let's call her) "has completed studies that focus on low-income Latina immigrants in San Francisco, lesbian mothers and lesbian and gay commitment ceremonies in the US." Also, we learn she currently is "writing a book on gay fathers."
Ellen's simply another political activist in academic guise.
The "animal rights barbecue" was perhaps a little tasteless (though no doubt tasty) though. I'm sure Ellen genuinely flipped her wig.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe basics of campus collegiality specify a more moderate response.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYes, Andrew X, if Ellen thinks these times are "difficult" (I gather she means the GOP success in the 2008 elections), I can't imagine what she thought when Bush was President. Apparently she reserves the right to send foul-mouthed emails to students whenever the Republicans have done well in a recent election.
By the way, why should Ellen mind being called "Ellen" by a student? I thought these sixties rad types (and judging from her picture and curriculum Ellen surely is one) loved to level authority? I suppose that's only when they weren't in authority.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"I would really appreciate your not sending blanket emails to everyone on campus, especially in these difficult times."
And I would really appreciate Ellen making a really great decision to really quit her really unnecessary position and get a real job in the real world among the real people she really hates.
Something tells me I really don't have a chance of getting what I really want in this matter. So why should Ellen be an exception?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseReading the reviews about the professor on "Rate My Professor," it sounds like she very much prefers exercising her intolerance for views other than her own to territory she dominates, such as within the boundaries of her own classroom.
You know, like all bullies do.
Even a student who identified herself as generally in agreement with Ms. Lewin's views made note of this.
Academic freedom for me, but not for thee.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOops, should have typed "2010" elections. I'm sure Ellen didn't find anything "difficult" about the 2008 elections.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYes, a 2.5 for "helpfulness" on ratemyprofessor is none to great. I can imagine if you're a presumptively straight male in her class, you're a definitely marked man.
Five of the fourteen raters gave her a poor grade, six good and three average. Two students (who liked her) even had the temerity to call her "Ellen." Does Ellen know about that affront?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusethe Department of Gender, Women’s & Se... Studies
Anyone still wonders why so many "college grads" can't find a job?
"Your comment cannot be posted since it contains objectionable language" quoted from the article. Cute.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe left really does hate well - why is that? Is it because their politics is their religion? They apparently believe that human nature can and will evolve if only (others are) properly indoctrinated and coerced.
Conservatives know human nature does not evolve. Technology does.
Human nature must be redeemed to change.
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