White Supremacist Keeps Job On UD Campus
The University of Delaware is all atwitter over learning that one of its own – a physics research assistant and instructor – is an active member of a white supremacist metal band. There have been several stories (I count at least eight) in the local News Journal in an attempt to publicly shame the university into firing the instructor – but so far UD president David Roselle refuses to cave in to the pressure.
In what I can only describe as bizarre, some self-appointed “black community leaders” have now called for the university to provide “separate but equal” classes for those who “do not feel comfortable” with the instructor.
That’s right: 114 years after the Plessy v Ferguson decision, a court decision that several generations of black leaders including Martin Luther King jr himself rightly viewed as subjugating blacks to the white power structure, the current “black community leaders” are calling for it back.
What’s next? Separate water fountains and bath rooms? After all, if minorities are uncomfortable with a Nazi Punk in class, what if they should run into him in a restroom?
Of course the concept could be extended further. Women who feel uncomfortable around men should be allowed to take classes taught by women. And should they feel the need to pray, they should be allowed separate space at the local mosque. And since an unveiled female face can elicit uncontrollable impulses from men, women should be forced to wear burkas to prevent them from exciting men and making them “uncomfortable”.
It’s a slippery slope, so thankfully UD has a president who understands that tolerance means feeling uncomfortable – alot. I just received my lunch from a women wearing a head scarf. It made me feel uncomfortable but so what? I still smiled at her and thanked her for her service.
Tolerance isn’t easy. Tolerance is a wool shirt that you wear because without it it’s every man/ideology/creed for himself and only the most powerful will survive. Tolerance is a two-way street. I’ll tolerate you if and only if you tolerate me. Once that street goes one way, all bets are off and it’s war.
And anyone who thinks that I’m a right winger with racist sympathies should read this first.
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