Notorious Jew-Bashing Professor and White-Power Political Party

[litlady]

Pretty scary stuff here.

Notorious Jew-Bashing Long Beach State Professor Joins Notorious Racist Lawyer to Create White-Power Political Party (blog):

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/school-daze/notorious-jew-bashing-long-bea/index.php?page=1

Story about the professor from Southern Poverty Law Center:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=741

[Jim Sagle]

1. Sounds like one of those sumbitches that infest the I/P folder.

;)

[cali]

13. oh, stuff it Jim.

the I/P forum is hardly infested by anti-semites.

[Jim Sagle]

18. See your eye doctor.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. How the fuck did he get a job being an open bigot?

[litlady]

3. The SPLC article explains the path of his career...

the department gave him uncontested tenure which means academic freedom, even though so many of his positions are rooted in hate and not academic inquiry. However, he has peer-reviewed articles and the department has condoned his activities for many years.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Want to see really scary?

Read the comments in the comment section and watch one group of supremacists attack the other, but at least they share a hate for Jews. Some of the comments will look suspiciously familiar.

[litlady]

5. The comments are definitely horrible and largely regional

I lived in that region before (Orange County, California) and that paper is quite local. Can't say that I knew any open supremacists but there were certainly plenty of conservatives. Apparently, they founded that "American Third Party" in that region too. Scary.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Makes one wonder if and where it will spread.

[litlady]

16. I could see it spreading - if people think they can legitimize racism...

those scary folks who came to the Palin rallies may all flock to the ATP

[rpannier]

7. The level of ignorance and paranoia is just staggering

and a bit frightening

[Behind the Aegis]

8. It is actually more common than one might think.

[rockymountaindem]

6. Those jackasses deserve each other

That's about all I can say about that. Besides "screw off, asscarrots".

[cali]

9. holy shit.

from the article:

CSULB is not the first campus to employ an academic racist on its professorial staff. But what makes MacDonald's case unique is that he was able to reach the heights of his profession, securing a post on the executive council of the professional body for evolutionary psychologists, all the while producing "research" now widely viewed as anti-Semitic. His work on Jewish evolutionary psychology made it into peer-reviewed publications and was taken seriously by many Ph.D.s. At CSULB, MacDonald sailed through his post-tenure review and was awarded sabbaticals and choice committee assignments (he currently serves on the Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee).

MacDonald filled his university website with racist and anti-Semitic materials, using some of them in his classes. Even when his connections to a prominent Holocaust denier were made public in 2000, the reaction from his department and the university's administration was silence. By last year, MacDonald had been awarded $10,000 by one racist outfit for his anti-Semitic research and was appointed as an adviser to another. Through it all, MacDonald did not suffer one official word of censure until late 2006, when general resolutions from his department opposing the use of academic research by hate groups and applauding diversity were enacted (these resolutions were prompted by inquiries from a writer for the Intelligence Report). Instead, he was given rewards.

MacDonald refused repeated requests from the Report for comment over the course of several months, writing on his personal website that he had "no confidence" that he would be treated in a "non-biased way."

A Bohemian Discovers the Jews
A former flower child and anti-Vietnam War activist, MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wis., to a middle-class family with a police officer dad. Raised in Joseph McCarthy's home state in the midst of that senator's anti-communist witch-hunts, MacDonald attended Catholic schools and played basketball. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1960s, majoring in philosophy. An ardent peacenik in college, MacDonald abandoned Catholicism and joined the anti-war movement. It was during these years that MacDonald would later admit he began to have suspicions about the motives of his Jewish fellow protesters. After school, MacDonald pursued the bohemian lifestyle of a jazz pianist, a career that ultimately failed. Not long after the fall of Saigon in 1975, he returned to the university campus.

And this fuckwad has deep ties to Regnery publishing.

[Hardrada]

10. Thanks for the information!

[Union Yes]

11. It'll appeal to disgruntled Rethugs and Teabaggers. knr for the heads up! nt

[cali]

12. yes, but he clearly has been protected by the school

that's what I find so disturbing.

[Union Yes]

14. Oh I totally agree. nt

[litlady]

17. Academic freedom is not always a good thing. nt