A sad story. I am in a different but strangely familiar fight with a university. I am not a student but a professor. I was suspended suddenly and violently one year ago (kicked off campus and banned from communicating with all students, staff, and faculty). Immediately, staff (instructed?) were pulling students aside and telling them that I had assaulted a student and was arrested, that I had been a troublemaker with a poor academic record on the edge of termination for five years. An unnamed senior administrator (the VP, it seems) said that what I said was disgusting and that I would be terminated no matter what.
But the two accusations were utter lies, not embellishments, but manufactured lies. A month later, I received a human rights complaint from the same Vice Provost herself and her radical anti-semitic professor friend.
I went on campus to unsuccessfully try to meet the union and was threatened with a 10K fine and trespassed; I contacted the main staff member who was slandering me, and after this, the university threatened me with police arrest if I contacted anyone. They emptied my office without telling me, and I had to threaten police involvement to get my stuff sent to me. Those pigs handled my recent Dad's papers and will, as well as my daughter's cards she had given me. My dad had passed away a year previous.
My crime?
I had called Hamas Nazis and said I stood with Israel in a private response on LI to an antisemite in Pakistan calling for the destruction of Israel.
A social media campaign called me racist and told people to write the university calling for my termination; over 50,000 people were contacted, now over 100,000. I was threatened with violence; I stopped sleeping, and the university refused to stop the defamation. I went to the hospital, and they said I had severe PTSD due to all the abuse. The WSIB verified it. My reputation is now destroyed; people I have known for 15 years will not speak to me. My accuser, who calls for the elimination of Israel, praises Hamas and Houthis and says Jews make clothing out of the skin, has two Human Rights Complaints against him, but they were dismissed as he is the co-claimant against me and is friends with the VP.
I have children; I will not kill myself. But the viciousness of administration and staff is earth-shaking; their lawyers send me letters that are threatening and savage. The human rights departments are political proxies of management, guilty until proven innocent; my accuser called me violent, racist, a danger to children, and an Islamophobe, and, along with the VP (who determines my discipline, they have no issue with the conflict of interest) who howls for my ouster.
Jewish students and professors are terrified; even Anglos are afraid to speak up. I am not tenured, and the faculty association won't support me. My union has refused to meet or talk on the phone and has filed just one grievance. They are being sued for anti-semitism in another matter.
I went from being the best professor in the department to a violent racist in a matter of days based on something that never happened. Nothing can be undone. I am not allowed a lawyer; the union will not offer one, and the union is my only legal representative.
They treat me like the worst of criminals because I hurt the feelings of Medina Muslims (as Ayaan called them) by calling Hamas Nazis, I have no regrets, but there have been many dark days. It's at U of Guelph in Canada, which is too small to attract much media attention. Only publicity and shame will work on these savages. My Substack with my 250 paid followers (: - details it all. Any shoutouts or restacks would be appreciated.
This is a dark troubling incident, more so because it highlights a general problem in the ethos of a generation. The problem is equally apparent in the incomprehensible lack of reaction to the horror of the mass murder and rape of October 7, 2023. The two are strongly connected, in that they are necessarily driven by an unwillingness to think through and interpret carefully factual information. Not understanding that the sexual interaction between two individuals, especially when they are young and inexperienced, can so easily lead to missed cues, missteps and plain misunderstandings, can only be driven by a very dogmatic, rigid way of looking at the world. Of course, young people will often pass rash judgements, but we should expect, indeed demand, that the university world would specifically try to awaken young people to the many subtleties of interpreting information and passing judgement. Universities should teach young people to think carefully, to not follow the mob. Instead, as we have leaned in recent years, Universities have been anything but focused on teaching our young to think carefully and critically, to question what seems obvious. Instead they seem to foster an atmosphere where chanting the party line is expected. The party line dictates that Jewish women and other civilians are in the wrong, especially when they are Jewish Israelis, so we must all follow without question. The party line is that when a young woman, not from Israel, feels uncomfortable, the man must be immediately and without question assumed to be guilty, and we must all follow, the young man included! No thought, no subtlety, no gray areas, and especially, no possibility of dissent. And now a young man has taken his own life. This rose is indeed very sick.
Thank you Ayaan for this investigational piece. Yes, that was a tragedy for both parties. Embellished truths since the late 1950's, 1960's through the 1970's on redefinitions of sex until today is the problem and by the way, every historian can point to another culture perhaps a century ago, where these same issues arose and death ensued. Crimes of passion. The solution is simple, I feel. Respect one another as ourselves. Do no harm. Respect has to be drilled into our culture, as a vital source of encouragement and responsibility. Turn off the boob tube, the computer, go outside and build a garden of food sources.
A sad story. I am in a different but strangely familiar fight with a university. I am not a student but a professor. I was suspended suddenly and violently one year ago (kicked off campus and banned from communicating with all students, staff, and faculty). Immediately, staff (instructed?) were pulling students aside and telling them that I had assaulted a student and was arrested, that I had been a troublemaker with a poor academic record on the edge of termination for five years. An unnamed senior administrator (the VP, it seems) said that what I said was disgusting and that I would be terminated no matter what.
But the two accusations were utter lies, not embellishments, but manufactured lies. A month later, I received a human rights complaint from the same Vice Provost herself and her radical anti-semitic professor friend.
I went on campus to unsuccessfully try to meet the union and was threatened with a 10K fine and trespassed; I contacted the main staff member who was slandering me, and after this, the university threatened me with police arrest if I contacted anyone. They emptied my office without telling me, and I had to threaten police involvement to get my stuff sent to me. Those pigs handled my recent Dad's papers and will, as well as my daughter's cards she had given me. My dad had passed away a year previous.
My crime?
I had called Hamas Nazis and said I stood with Israel in a private response on LI to an antisemite in Pakistan calling for the destruction of Israel.
A social media campaign called me racist and told people to write the university calling for my termination; over 50,000 people were contacted, now over 100,000. I was threatened with violence; I stopped sleeping, and the university refused to stop the defamation. I went to the hospital, and they said I had severe PTSD due to all the abuse. The WSIB verified it. My reputation is now destroyed; people I have known for 15 years will not speak to me. My accuser, who calls for the elimination of Israel, praises Hamas and Houthis and says Jews make clothing out of the skin, has two Human Rights Complaints against him, but they were dismissed as he is the co-claimant against me and is friends with the VP.
I have children; I will not kill myself. But the viciousness of administration and staff is earth-shaking; their lawyers send me letters that are threatening and savage. The human rights departments are political proxies of management, guilty until proven innocent; my accuser called me violent, racist, a danger to children, and an Islamophobe, and, along with the VP (who determines my discipline, they have no issue with the conflict of interest) who howls for my ouster.
Jewish students and professors are terrified; even Anglos are afraid to speak up. I am not tenured, and the faculty association won't support me. My union has refused to meet or talk on the phone and has filed just one grievance. They are being sued for anti-semitism in another matter.
I went from being the best professor in the department to a violent racist in a matter of days based on something that never happened. Nothing can be undone. I am not allowed a lawyer; the union will not offer one, and the union is my only legal representative.
They treat me like the worst of criminals because I hurt the feelings of Medina Muslims (as Ayaan called them) by calling Hamas Nazis, I have no regrets, but there have been many dark days. It's at U of Guelph in Canada, which is too small to attract much media attention. Only publicity and shame will work on these savages. My Substack with my 250 paid followers (: - details it all. Any shoutouts or restacks would be appreciated.
https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/should-i-apologize-for-2000000?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/defamation?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/copy-life-story-part-1-i-am-being?r=iy2ds&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This is a dark troubling incident, more so because it highlights a general problem in the ethos of a generation. The problem is equally apparent in the incomprehensible lack of reaction to the horror of the mass murder and rape of October 7, 2023. The two are strongly connected, in that they are necessarily driven by an unwillingness to think through and interpret carefully factual information. Not understanding that the sexual interaction between two individuals, especially when they are young and inexperienced, can so easily lead to missed cues, missteps and plain misunderstandings, can only be driven by a very dogmatic, rigid way of looking at the world. Of course, young people will often pass rash judgements, but we should expect, indeed demand, that the university world would specifically try to awaken young people to the many subtleties of interpreting information and passing judgement. Universities should teach young people to think carefully, to not follow the mob. Instead, as we have leaned in recent years, Universities have been anything but focused on teaching our young to think carefully and critically, to question what seems obvious. Instead they seem to foster an atmosphere where chanting the party line is expected. The party line dictates that Jewish women and other civilians are in the wrong, especially when they are Jewish Israelis, so we must all follow without question. The party line is that when a young woman, not from Israel, feels uncomfortable, the man must be immediately and without question assumed to be guilty, and we must all follow, the young man included! No thought, no subtlety, no gray areas, and especially, no possibility of dissent. And now a young man has taken his own life. This rose is indeed very sick.
Thanks a lot, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for the "Reflection on Alexander Rogers".
Thank you Ayaan for this investigational piece. Yes, that was a tragedy for both parties. Embellished truths since the late 1950's, 1960's through the 1970's on redefinitions of sex until today is the problem and by the way, every historian can point to another culture perhaps a century ago, where these same issues arose and death ensued. Crimes of passion. The solution is simple, I feel. Respect one another as ourselves. Do no harm. Respect has to be drilled into our culture, as a vital source of encouragement and responsibility. Turn off the boob tube, the computer, go outside and build a garden of food sources.