Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights
Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights
Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #1
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:39pm
Sounds like someone needs a straw shoved up her nose...
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid97380.asp
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #2
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:48pm
Read her full statement. The Advocate clippings don't quite capture the vileness she contains.
link
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #2
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:52pmWhat the flip is wrong with her?!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #3
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:57pmUp her nose? more like her cooter.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #4
Posted: 7/10/09 at 1:59pmJust to be clear, she doesn't just oppose gay rights. She thinks gays should be thrown in jail (and tortured). And by questioning her on that, she think it makes one a "bully."
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #5
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:03pm
"While I am disappointed at the intolerant animosity directed at me by strangers who do not know me and have decided to act on their own prejudices, forged from whatever sources."
What's the word I'm looking for here?
Ah yes, hypocrite.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #6
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:04pmtaboo, that made me scream in my head!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #7
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:05pmTaboo, I believe the word you are actually searching for starts with a C, ends with a T and has something about the UN in the middle.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #8
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:07pm
I'm gonna be in this bitches face more than a couple times if she's gonna be at NYU Law.
someone needs to find, and post her personal contact info.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #9
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:09pm
Liverpool, let her bury herself with her own words when she gets here. Harassing her and threatening her is only going to fuel her fire.
Besides, for some reason I think she enjoys the publicity surrounding this. Somewhat like a Miss LuPone.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #10
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:11pmsee you next tuesday!!!
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #11
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:12pm
The comments on the insidehighered.com page are great.
"My personal favorite:
I read your recent e-mail interview with Inside Higher Ed with some interest. It seems that you may be a little concerned about what awaits you at NYU this fall. As a gay person and a law student, I wanted to take the opportunity to reassure you and to welcome you to the university. I'm not sure if you've been to New York before, but I gather from your CV that you got a quite a fine education in the UK. Because of a few phrases you used in the interview, it occurred to me that you may not be familiar with some peculiarities of American English and I want to point out a few that may come in handy. First, we call chips "french fries" and crisps "chips." Second, we generally call Members of Parliament "elites" and law students, well, "law students." We don't really use the word "diktat" a whole lot.
New York being New York, you may also find a few Yiddish words to be useful. Foremost among these is "chutzpah." "Chutzpah" is hard to translate directly and its meaning is perhaps best illustrated by example. New Yorkers would say that a former NMP and graduate of Cambridge and Oxford who denounces gays in a rather vulgar manner on the floor of Parliament in a successful bid to enable their imprisonment calling the highlighting of her remarks by a few law students "ugly politicking" based on "their own prejudices, from whatever sources" has a lot of chutzpah.
Now, having grown up in a farming village in Kentucky and spent a number of years in the enlisted ranks of the Army, I share your distaste for both "ugly politicking" and "elite diktat." As I've been called a "faggot" and been beaten up a few times, I don't care much for "bullying" either, although I'm not sure having one of one's own Parliamentary speeches circulated really qualifies as such. This may be yet another peculiarity of American English.
You are quite correct, however, that in the face of bullying, one must have courage. It also helps to have supportive gay friends. One of the nice things about gay folks is that we tend not to belong to either the "liberal camp" or "communitarian camp" which you described in your speech. We're just into camp. Likewise, the gays at NYU don't by any means have a problem with you, your right to your views, or academic freedom. We just don't think that state power to imprison or discriminate against sexual, racial, or other minorities is a particularly "academic" question. Again, that's American English for you.
Another generally appreciated feature of the gays is our sense of taste, which has been highlighted in television shows like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." You are a bit mistaken if you think that the gays at NYU want to censor you. It?s just that, like mixing polka dots with plaid or having George Wallace teach a course on civil rights in the American South, we tend to think NYU's hiring you to teach a class called "Human Rights in Asia" demonstrates a lack of taste.
Dr. Thio, if you'll have me, I'd like to be your supportive gay friend. We can have lunch, dish about men and listen to music together. I know a great tapas place in Greenwich Village and, as an American, I'd like to disabuse you of the notion that I have any interest in "refus[ing] to engage with dissenting views" or directing "intolerant animosity" at you. There are also a few great American songs I'd love to introduce you to. One of my favorites is called "Cry Me a River." It was written by Arthur Hamilton.
I must make one friendly request before I let you go, however. We American gays are doing fairly well post-Lawrence v. Texas. Unlike our Singaporean brethren, we can't be arbitrarily thrown into prison and can generally defend ourselves under the law. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for our friends, the straw men. From "human right to sodomy" to "Americans ... appropriating the rhetoric of human rights... [to] impose their views on a sovereign state," you've spent a good deal of time knocking them down. Last I checked, they hadn't done anything to you, so why not go a bit easier on them?
All the best,
Jim McCurley
NYU Law Class of 2010"
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #12
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:26pm
Very articulate. Bitch needs to be dunked in the skank tank. Anyone have a picture of her?
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #15
Posted: 7/10/09 at 2:35pmWhy would NYU hire her to begin with? Did they not know of her present stance on this issue?
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #16
Posted: 7/10/09 at 4:21pm
Oh believe me, C*NT was next on my list.
I hope the gays and supporters flock to her seminar, ensuring that there are no seats for possible fans of this moron.
Let's see how she copes.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #17
Posted: 7/10/09 at 4:24pmShe's like the Asian Ann Coulter. Methinks she'll get along just fine peddling her "beliefs".
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re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #18
Posted: 7/10/09 at 4:38pm
"Why would NYU hire her to begin with? Did they not know of her present stance on this issue?"
Of course they knew...and that's exactly why they hired her. They can tout how liberal and open they're being by hiring someone who doesn't hold the same views that many connected with the university have. While at the same time knowing full well that it will create controversy and publicity, and will also rally the troops to blast her out of the water every chance they get. It's a win..win for NYU.
Sometimes it's best to give the hate mongers a venue to spew their bile. Just from reading the few blurbs here, she appears to be an intellectual light weight who will be eaten alive. I'm sure there are people already preparing to slice and dice her. Remember what happened to Ahmadinejad when he spoke at Columbia, give them enough rope...
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #19
Posted: 7/10/09 at 4:41pm
It's like hiring a known wife beater and sexist to teach a course on Women's History. Shameful!
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #21
Posted: 7/10/09 at 5:43pm
I had a black lit course taught by a white guy. But he really loved jazz.
Is it wrong to say the prof looks like a Tracey Ullman character.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #22
Posted: 7/10/09 at 6:20pm
It already seems like she shoved a straw up her nose.
Look at the size of that nose.
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #23
Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:36am
Someone couldn't handle the heat
Citing Opposition, Professor Calls Off N.Y.U. Appointment
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
re: Human Rights Prof. Opposes Gay Rights #24
Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:11am
Thanks for the day-brightener, collen!
Bet she resigns before the end of the year.
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