Flailing

Hamline University – my neighbor here in the MIdway, a university with almost as much hamfisted woke cred as Saint Thomas and Macalester, recently fired an art professor for showing an artistic representation of Mohammed.

Here’s a quick rundown:

López Prater, an adjunct professor, showed a picture of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class-causing an uproar back in October. Since, many Muslims viewing visual representations of the prophet are prohibited, some thought the professor’s actions as highly “Islamaphobic”. Take a look:

Despite a “trigger warning”, it appears the student was triggered when Dr. López Prater, showed the classroom a medieval depiction of Muhammad, an “incident of hate and discrimination“, apparently. Hell, even the university’s associate vice president of inclusive excellence (AVPIE) found it to be “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic“.

It sent the message for all to hear: “triggered students are more important than academic, or really all, freedom.”

The story got some national play – which couldn’t have helped the struggling little university.

Of course, Hamline’s concern for diversity of academic opinion, or for that matter the less fashionable consitutional rights, is just as dismal.

But let’s stick with today’s controversy. Hamline is trying to back-track. Ellen Watters, chair of Hamline’s board of trustees, wrote:

In the interest of hearing from and supporting our Muslim students, language was used that does not reflect our sentiments on academic freedom. Based on all that we have learned, we have determined that our usage of the term ‘Islamophobic’ was therefore flawed…It was never our intent to suggest that academic freedom is of lower concern or value than our students — care does not ‘supersede’ academic freedom, the two coexist.

But it may be too late. Lopez Prater has filed suit:

The lawsuit filed on behalf of López Prate states the professor suffered loss of income from her adjunct position, emotional distress and damage to her professional reputation and job prospects.

David Redden, a lawyer for Dr. López Prater, says the university’s change of heart on the “islamaphobia” accusations does not change the lawsuit and that he, and his client, will pursue legal action against the university.

And other academics have risen to the defense…

…of their fellow academic.

So the good news is, even some academics have reached a point where they won’t spontaneously erupt into a Maoist struggle session on command. Provided it’s their freedom at stake.

It’s a tiny, tiny start.

25 thoughts on “Flailing

  1. The prohibition of not creating an image of the Prophet Muhammad is Islamic, and only Islamic. Imposing that prohibition on non-Muslims, which is what the school officials did. The university failed miserably in this situation. Academic institutions are not beholden to constrain themselves within others religious beliefs in a secular society. Especially in this case where there was no intent of attacking the beliefs. Really just a terrible job by the school.

  2. Emery
    When did your life becomes something other than chattel for your mother to dispose of at her whim?

  3. It’s worth noting that the portrayal of Mohammed was actually done by Muslims in the Middle Ages. If you want Islamophobia, maybe you find some portrayals of Mohammed by the Crusaders?

    Neither warrants firing/terminating a professor, because at some point, academia needs to be comfortable with reality. Yes, Muslims were not always Wahhabis who felt that images, wine, and the like were off limits. Not quite sure how they squared that away with Mohammed’s teaching, but they felt they could, and people today need to be aware of that.

    And yes, wine, as no less than Arabian Nights, as well as a fair amount of poetry from Muslim days, refers to this. The wineries in Shiraz were only shut down a little over a century ago–well, probably only most of them.

  4. The aggrieved student is a political activist following in Mogadishu Barbie’s footsteps. She is not some run of the mill student working for a degree with hopes of a reasonable chance at a career after college, this is a “student” who through this action is entering fully into her life’s work. She will be running for office within 5 years.

  5. As per Bikebubba, there are also state alcohol boards running liquor stores in several Islamic countries -Jordan comes to mind- and a rather active beer brewing scene and a modest amount of wineries in Turkey.
    Eschewing of alcohol is interpreted widely within the religion, with many opting for moderation as the defining factor.

  6. I think Pig Bodine has the right of it and this student is trying to make her political bones.

  7. Hmmm… I just posted a comment and it did not appear. I posted same comment about half our ago and it is not here, hence the repeat. Are comments about face diapers get censored outright now, without moderation?

  8. The woke virus is further advanced than you may believe.
    The essence of wokeness is illiberality. While you may think of things like freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion as what makes the US a free country, the woke believe the opposite. They believe that freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion are the worst things about the US, because they are the tools used by white supremacy and capitalism (frankly they are the same thing to the woke) to oppress everyone who is not white and heterosexual.
    You will get nowhere by arguing with the woke that their actions are illiberal, because they view being illiberal as a mark of honor.
    There are some people who say that the GOP and Trumpism is illiberal. Less liberal is more accurate. The Trumpy’s would be ecstatic if they managed to turn the clock back to the early 1960s, when the US was the most liberal nation in the world. The woke are frikkin’ stalinists.

  9. At some point in time, the white residents of Christian, European countries are going to have to realize that White Supremacy is a fact and stop apologizing for it.

  10. The woke are frikkin’ stalinists.

    Actually, maoists, MP. Wokism has an uncanny and frightening parallel to cultural revolution when garbage collectors who toed the party line swapped with math professors to teach differential equations they knew nothing about and were put into positions of authority.

  11. Back in the early aughts, an insane Assprof at UMMorris deliberately desecrated a host from a Catholic church he knew to have been consecrated, and a Koran. He nailed the host to the koran, tossed both in the trash and posted a picture on social media. The reprobates swooned in orgasmic ecstasy.

    Catholics and Muzzies took their complaints to the top; the UofM told them to pound sand up their ass.

    I’d like to challenge that Assprof to do his trick again now.

  12. “White Supremacy is a fact and stop apologizing for it.”

    They can and are replacing the White majority with 75 IQ browns and blacks from third world shit holes, and the former United States will dominate the world in sportsball.

    But who will operate the nuclear power plants; who will design, build and operate electric power stations; who will design new electronics; who will build new computers and maintain the old ones?

    Who will perform delicate surgery; design electric vehicles, and build the machines to build electric vehicles; who will design and build air and space craft?

    Who will build, operate and maintain water and wastewater treatment plants; who will grow the food; who will do the math?

    White Supremacy is essentially a matter of IQ. Of course there are outliers among black and brown people, there are certainly some very intelligent Sub Saharan Africans. But not enough to maintain a technologically advanced society.

    That’s a simple fact.

  13. If y’all doubt my wisdom, google “nigeria” or “kenya” “wastewater treatment”.

    Those people are awash in untreated sewage. The treatment plants they do have were built by China and Dubai. They have fallen into disrepair because the local talent pool is dry as a bone.

  14. Good points, Blade.

    I’m wondering how many white supremacist farmers we could get to stop producing food for wokies? Most of the farmers that I know, are Republicans and those that aren’t, are converting fast.

  15. Wokeness is a white people problem.
    Lake Calhoun was renamed to some near gibberish by crazy white people.
    I went to West High School in the 70s. It was then about 25% NA, 50% black, 25% po’ white boys like me.. West High School was close to Lake Calhoun. No one had ever heard of Bde Maka Ska, not even the Indians. The idea that naming geographical features is meaningful is not an NA thing. It matters to white people, the name tells you who controls the social mechanism of naming geographical locations (the idea of geographical locations is also a white thing). It is literally exasperating, you cannot correct this massive failure of the ability to reason with words. It is like trying to explain to a Santa Claus believer that the reason that it is not true that Santa Claus has a white beard is false is because Santa Claus himself does not actually exist.

  16. ^ Indeed, UMMP. A guy I follow on Gab (from Twitter), ex-South African, wrote the following which adds to your comment above.

    Healthy self-criticism, to keep dangerous ego in check, and very generous sense of altruism, are hallmarks of Northern European whites.

    Libtardism is a fatal hack on that system, coupled with a brain malformation – see further down.

    Our altruism is easily understood from a survival standpoint:
    Where winter will kill you, and being an hour or two late to get home will kill you, and not planting or harvesting on time will kill you, and various other trivial missteps will kill you….

    You have to be smart, thoughtful, endlessly self-examine to ruthlessly eliminate error. And you’ll still screw up. But maybe you have a neighbor who’ll see that you did everything right and just had bad luck, so he helps you out.

    Because you’ll be filled with that warm bonhomie and gratitude, and reciprocate twice over when you can.

    That’s very White….and very adaptive to those circumstances, where you’re surrounded by other altruistic tit-for-tat players you can trust not to defect the game.

    THAT’S HOW LIBTARDISM IS A FATAL VULNERABILITY THAT HACKS WHITES….and causes them to self-destruct.

    Because those characteristics DON’T APPLY to non-White players. There are a few other altruistic tribes–certain Indians, for example. But most of the world is purely tribal, and will take advantage of altruism WITHOUT RECIPROCITY.

    Couple that with a liberal’s congenital brain malformation: undersized amygdalae and a poorly-formed threat recognition system.

    Now you have helpless Eloi who can’t comprehend the threat posed by Islam, or Communism, or feral Africans, or retarded illiterate fast-breeding Mestizos…and want to give them endless altruism.

  17. Many people think that Chinese and East (dot) Indians are a race of super intelligent people.

    The fact is, while Chinese do have high IQ’s, the picture we see in the US is highly biased because the people that immigrate from China and India are from the upper classes. That guarantees they are going to be also from the higher end of the intellectual bell curve.

    The population of both China and India is >1.4 billion (each). The vast majority of the populations live in crushing poverty, and filth. Indian street shitters are not a myth, and Asians have learned to enjoy fried meal worms because that’s what many have available.

    The populations of White, Western Europeans and Americans is in decline because the cost of raising kids to what we consider high standards is high, so we have fewer kids. It’s a latent sign of intelligence.

    The population of India, China, South America and Africa are exploding, because they are full of low IQ people who don’t understand the harm they’re doing to themselves, their countries and their races. They don’t want to change their habits; they want to come here and have us take care of them.

    I don’t want to live in a sea of illiterate, unskilled people who have no shared history, values or sense of decency and morality. I want my people to thrive and maintain the standard of living our predecessors sacrificed and worked to pass along to us.

    That doesn’t make me a bigot; it makes me smart.

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  19. Blade;
    It makes sense that the Indians are the higher IQ, from upper classes, but I believe that the high IQ ChiComs that come here, are sponsored by the Party. They have infiltrated every major university that have high tech and engineering programs, to steal information, especially for military stuff. That is their goal. Steal technology and use it against the countries from which they stole it. This includes the WuFlu and the death jabs, which were not used in China. In fact, there were articles that were released this week from China where their higher ups came out and said that it was a death shot. Then, a research paper was released from some of their top medical people where versions of the juice were injected into mice. The conclusion was that four or more boosters, completely shut down the immune systems in the mice. This should be a wake up call to all of the true believers out there. Of course, to avoid admitting they have been had, these zealots will say; “yea, but it was mice”. Invariably, these zealots will be members of the party of science, yet they will have no clue as to why the medical community uses mice for research.

  20. Those might be smart Asians, but they’re still emigrating to here. The lands of White Supremacy.

  21. From the Daily Mail article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11612991/Hamline-University-adjunct-professor-fired-showing-painting-Prophet-Muhammad.html

    “At the start, this prohibition was quite simply to avoid the temptation of worshiping the images themselves, as people had done for centuries,’ the site continues.

    ‘As far as depicting the Prophet is concerned, Muslims don’t make pictures or statues of Prophet Muhammad for a clear reason. The reason is not that images or art are wicked or evil, but that images can lead to a wrong understanding.’ “

    In other words, Islam intellect is not developed enough to deal with imagery. Like stories of native tribes in South America who were afraid of cameras because they thought taking a picture of someone was stealing their soul. 75 IQ browns and blacks indeed.

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