Thread: Professor’s Response Silenced Them All

Why am I stuck with the feeling that this professor can't handle free speech if that speech counters his believes?
Nitwit. Besides, God doesn't exist. And if he doesnt like that, he knows perfectly well the three steps.

Cross-posting facebook shit.

This belongs in the DH.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Amazes really how thick skinned many posters would have you believe they are when in fact the opposite is true ... some of the most think skinned people I've stumbled across. People who are uncomfortable outside their group of like minded thinkers. No different than my right wing friends.

It's not about being thin skinned. It's about being tired of cut and paste dribble that did not occur.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Yep, he's a real person and he really did this.

Mike Adams Articles - Political Columnist & Commentator

Mike Adams

"Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school.

After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He also played for free beer.

Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Mike Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998.

After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Mike Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.

After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Mike Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. He has since made appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck. His column on TownHall.com has earned him countless hate mails - often from radical feminists who hate males.

Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008. Later that year, Adams joined the faculty of Summit Ministries in Colorado where he spends his summers lecturing against abortion and in favor of First Amendment rights on college campuses.

In addition to lecturing on the First Amendment, Mike Adams is actively involved in legal challenges to campus censorship. Represented by the ADF, he won a landmark First Amendment case before the 4th Circuit in Richmond, VA. Decided in 2011, Adams v UNCW held that professors publishing columns and giving speeches have the full protection of the First Amendment when discussing matters of public concern. Hence, when professors report such activities as part of their annual review, tenure, or promotion materials the university does not have license to discriminate on the basis of the professor's viewpoint.

Dr. Adams' third book, Letters to a Young Progressive, was published in April of 2013. In 2014, Adams v. UNCW finally went to trial to determine whether the university violated the First Amendment in 2006 by denying his promotion to full professor in retaliation for his speeches and columns on TownHall.com. He was represented at trial by David French of the ACLJ and Travis Barham of ADF. On March 20th, the federal jury ruled in Adams favor. On April 8th, the court ordered UNCW to promote Adams and give him seven years back pay. He spent most of the money on guns made by Browning, guitars made by Fender, and amps made by Mesa Boogie".

I like this guy.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Amazes really how thick skinned many posters would have you believe they are when in fact the opposite is true ... some of the most think skinned people I've stumbled across. People who are uncomfortable outside their group of like minded thinkers. No different than my right wing friends.

It's not about being thin skinned. It's about being tired of cut and paste dribble that did not occur.

Appears you're wrong KW. The guy has a long history of saying and writing things that people find offensive. It has even affected his university tenure. The trick is to google "Professor Mike Adams" not just Mike Adams or you end up with a bunch of people with the same name.

Professors are supposed to be independent thinkers and teach students to be also. Can't fault him there.

While uni faculty in the past have lost their jobs over speaking out as anti-war or even presently for anti-Israel "tweets", what's the big deal over Adams and his right to free speech just because he is conservative.

Originally Posted by Cujo

He spent most of the money on guns made by Browning, guitars made by Fender, and amps made by Mesa Boogie".

closet homo for sure - should check for vaginas in his freezer

Originally Posted by misskit

Professors are supposed to be independent thinkers and teach students to be also. Can't fault him there.

While uni faculty in the past have lost their jobs over speaking out as anti-war or even presently for anti-Israel "tweets", what's the big deal over Adams and his right to free speech just because he is conservative.

Quite. His free speech is conservative and thereby not tolerated by the bigots.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Cross-posting facebook shit.

This belongs in the DH.

That's fine. Results were as expected.

And I totally agree with the opening sentence of the OP:

"Every day it seems more and more Americans find ways to be offended, and the end result has left our nation full of a bunch of whiners".

Not just Americans ...

Most of the responses in this thread prove the OP's point.

Amazes really how thick skinned many posters would have you believe they are when in fact the opposite is true ... some of the most think skinned people I've stumbled across. People who are uncomfortable outside their group of like minded thinkers. No different than my right wing friends.

Actually what it proves is that you're an attention seeking fuckwit who will post any old shyte.

I bet your newsfeed is full of the fucking stuff.

^^I bet he wasn't shouted down when he appeared on shows like Hannity etc. though.

They tend to do that when they don't agree with your views.

Likewise I doubt Carson had him in mind when suggesting that students inform on their teachers for expressing political views.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Cross-posting facebook shit.

This belongs in the DH.

That's fine. Results were as expected.

And I totally agree with the opening sentence of the OP:

"Every day it seems more and more Americans find ways to be offended, and the end result has left our nation full of a bunch of whiners".

Not just Americans ...

Most of the responses in this thread prove the OP's point.

Amazes really how thick skinned many posters would have you believe they are when in fact the opposite is true ... some of the most think skinned people I've stumbled across. People who are uncomfortable outside their group of like minded thinkers. No different than my right wing friends.

Actually what it proves is that you're an attention seeking fuckwit who will post any old shyte.

I bet your newsfeed is full of the fucking stuff.

You're terrible at trolling. That's your best effort at spinning me up ...

Seems to me Professor Adams has managed to spin a few of you liberal turd blossoms up right here in TD.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume the rest is some right-wing-wank rant?

I agreed with the initial premise until he claimed that Marxists are running the Uni's. Bogus.

Says it all, I agree.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume the rest is some right-wing-wank rant?

I agreed with the initial premise until he claimed that Marxists are running the Uni's. Bogus.

Says it all, I agree.

Seems silly to me. For example, as bsnub knows I favored Jim Webb for President but I didn't tune him out simply because I disagreed with his stance on the confederate flag.
That doesn't negate all the things I agree with him on.

Originally Posted by baldrick

SK - are you upset because you think I am calling you old and senile ?

Professor’s Response... (Professor’s Response Silenced Them All) 06-11-2015 10:38 AM Storekeeper Weak and deserving of my first red in a long time.

fer fcuks sake - any cnut who starts a statement with "back in the day" is of course old and stupid

so anyway I put "snopes mike adams" into google and surprise surpise

Founder

Mike Adams

has been accused of using sockpuppet accounts to fraudulently increase the vote count in his self-nomination for a Shorty Award.

Well, wouldn't you know it?

Mike Adams

thinks he's an actual scientist! Regular readers are all too familiar with

Mike Adams

, a.k.a. The Health

Mike Adams

, who advocates the murder of those who believe GM technology can play a constructive role in food and farming, is not an outlier ...

NaturalNews.com (formerly Newstarget) is an anti-science conspiracy website founded by

Mike Adams

(self-labeled "The Health Ranger") which promotes ...

As far as we know, the original source was an article entitled "My Apology to the Arab World," penned by Dr.

Mike

S.

Adams

, a professor of criminology at the ..

though maybe it is a common name

or he is just a self aggrandising fruitcake

The dangerous and illusional variety...

The immediately post WW2 generation were happy enough just to get an education and a family. Then came the 60's and the time of the peace out man generation, then that didn't work out and it became the sex, drugs and rock and roll seventies. Somehow it's turned into a big sensitive hug time and oh woe is me if I don't get a participation medal and I'm not treated special because I'm not straight and white and therefore must be a victim.
Just too many pussies I think.

Originally Posted by Cujo

The immediately post WW2 generation were happy enough just to get an education and a family. Then came the 60's and the time of the peace out man generation, then that didn't work out and it became the sex, drugs and rock and roll seventies. Somehow it's turned into a big sensitive hug time and oh woe is me if I don't get a participation medal and I'm not treated special because I'm not straight and white and therefore must be a victim.
Just too many pussies I think.

Yes. Minorities and dh leftards run the unis now.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

OP,

That was a good article / lecture.

Let's put it in the "PC coddling of mind thread."

I'm offended that it's not there (joke).


But seriously, the US Unis are a JOKE. They are a joke. Filled with whiney kids who grew up in the facebook / video game age.

You're right but I didn't think of that thread to put this in.

This guy professor Adams isn't somebody I'd want to sit down and have a beer with. I don't really like his style. But I'm glad there are people around like him who still push the limit to see what is acceptable for conservatives to say and do. For example I think it's stupid to concealed carry a gun into church. But if it pisses liberals off I'm all for it.

and its because you and many others are so easily manipulated in this way that america's richest 1% have managed to capture the government and spend the last 30 years screwing the rest of you over. why do you think everyones getting poorer?

naivety and hubris... nothing more dangerous

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

For example I think it's stupid to concealed carry a gun into church. But if it pisses liberals off I'm all for it.

An admirable quality. You do stupid things for stupid reasons.