You may recall the very suspect noose hanging incident at Columbia University last fall revolving around Professor Madonna Constantine. From the very beginning the incident smelled incredibly fishy and the university stonewalled any real investigation from the outset, although that didn’t stop the PC mob from issuing demands before any real investigation could commence.
Though lo and behold, once the incident and other matters pertaining to Constantine were examined more thoroughly it became evident that Constantine herself was under suspicion, and one of the main reasons is she was enveloped in a very real plagiarism scandal.
And why did it smell fishy from the start? Because she even plagiarized the way of staging her “victimization.”
Good to see Columbia purge itself of intellectual dishonesty like this. It was looking kind of dicey there for awhile.
10:1 she wins on appeal.
Because when I think of bastions of old-skool racists and class privilege devotees, I think of the Columbia School of Psychology.
And why did it smell fishy from the start?
Are you not aware, Mr. Collins, that “fishy” is not a gender neutral term? Denounced!!
Hm, that’s a new one. What, “institutional racism” wasn’t good enough or was she trying to avoid being nabbed for “plagiarism of Identity Politics Phrases?”
This is the other problem of the BLT inpired attitude that makes organized oppression the cornerstone for racial conversation. Any two bit Xeroxer who happens to be “of color” can stonewall an entire process by bleating organized, insidious structural racism in the hope that enough squishy racial apologists will shake their fists and the institution will be publically shamed into giving up the fight.
She and Ward “one drop of Cherokee blood” Churchill should go halfsies on the “X” posters and the drums.
And let us wallow and cavort like playful otters in the liquid, soothing irony of Columbia Freakin’ University identified as a “structurally racist” institution.
It will cure all of your warts and leave your hair silky smooth.
Good gravy, that’s like complaining that the Amish are “prone to violence.”
Hate crime, huh?
Oh, bullshit, you mendoucheous, race baiting fraud.
Heh, the mental gymnastics of the other faculty must be fun.
“Columbia isn’t structurally racist. But that doesn’t mean that every other organization started by dead white men isn’t. Ummmm…. please don’t pull our grant money.”
Can I get a denunciation clarification on “carp” when used as verb.
Thor: Probationary condemnation.
BJ #9 – That is like calling someone who rides the short bus dumb. Not nice, and utterly redundant.
Only women carp. They smoke and drink and don’t come home at all.
Sing it, Alice.
How DARE you blame this on bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes?
Nifong’ll get right on it….
I posted this one JWF:
You can’t tie this to Obama, except that she is black and so is he (partially). She clearly is using racism as a tool to defend her plagiarism. If she were white, she would be using her womanhood. If she were a white man, she would figure out another angle with which to prove some “conspiracy” angle (maybe he would check into a rehab or something). She is just pulling this crap out of her ass because she can. I will cop to the fact that it is us liberals, particularly academic liberals, who created the environment in which people can use race and gender as tools to defend their perifidy (and actually make it work). But she is seen as a crank and blowhard, even to liberals.
She is just one of those people who is full of crap. This has nothing to do with black liberation theology or Jeremiah Wright. It has a lot to do with some loser getting busted for plagiarizing and then digging into her bag of Stupid Perfesser Tricks to try to weasel out of it (institutional racism is always a reliable one).
I am starting to get really bored with this “all unpleasant business having to do with black people is connected to the new Al Quaeda: Black Liberation Theology” (zomg, run for your lives! they hate us for our freedom!)
I agree with you, Karen, that this isn’t a result of BLT. I disagree that anyone here is making BLT out to be Al-Qaedish. I think that the point would be that the professor’s feeling that she might derive something out of a claim of institutional racism is motivated by the same sense of aggrieved entitlement that suffuses BLT.
I like smoked carp, thor. With slivovitz.
You know, if the whole of your adult endeavors relate to promoting a view that there is inherent and structural racism in virtually every facet of life, chances are, you start to believe it. I’m utterly convinced that she really does think she is the victim here.
Brad, I don’t think so. I think she can save face in a hermetic community of griefers.
I agree Dan. I am sad that it was liberals that created this fucking monster weapon. But really, it is just another weapon for the trifling and mediocre to use to defend themselves from being held to actual standards (the standards are WHITE and therefore not valid, my dear honkies).
Well, to be fair, we also invented plagiarism. Copycat.
Dan, did you really want to say hermeneutic griefers?
With slivovitz.
Nothing tastes good with slivovitz. I think slivovitz actually (temporarily, at least) draws the caul of death over your tastebuds, as well as much of the rest of your head.
I’m wondering if I exceeded my slivovitz LD50. It sure felt like it, next morning.
I think Brad is on to something. This isn’t a Typical Black Person who got busted and is playing the race card. This is Dr. Madonna G. Constantine, a Columbia “professor of psychology and education who specializes in the study of how race and racial prejudice can affect clinical and educational dynamics…
She’s soaking in it. And then there’s the matter of the noose and where it came from.
I think she may well think that she’s the victim here, and that any means necessary to her ends are fair game. Progressivism in a nut
caseshell. Either way, I’m amused.What a load of Istanbulshit.