FlynnFiles readers may remember last year at this time the story of a Western Michigan University women's studies professor who used class time to encourage her students to tear down fliers promoting a Pat Buchanan speech. This week, a feminist professor at Northern Kentucky University encouraged her students to destroy a campus pro-life display, which they promptly did. "I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Sally Jacobsen admitted. "Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged."

UPDATE: Sally Jacobsen, the professor in the middle of NKU's "Cemetery of Innocents" vandalism case, didn't just encourage students to destroy the display, she helped destroy the display herself. The proof is in the picture.

"Freedom of speech rights!"

HUH?!

"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged."

So any violence I may visit upon this professor because of feelings she elicits in me is equally justified? How does a self-righteous, imbecilic phoney like this merit a job teaching in college? Thankfully colleges merely overlook such failures rather than require them in their teaching staff.

I wouldn't consider college jobs to be real jobs. The academic world has no correlation to real life.

Webster,
You're forgetting it's only the rights of the extremists that count (I don’t think vandalism is a right but that’s for another discussion). If you visited any violence upon this "professor" you would be branded as an unenlightened brute. Don’t forget this ilk is the same that would have us believe that it’s perfectly acceptable to burn our flag in public but not to not to display an unburned version anywhere where it can be seen by the public. You're dealing with inverted logic with these people and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try and make sense of it.

For all the talk of diversity, these university types seem to have a tough time understanding that others may feel differently than they do.

I think the university folk have fallen prey to the "absolute power corrupts absolutely" syndrome. In their fiefdom they hold complete sway. Despite their rhetoric about diversity, they have and use the power to squash opposing viewpoints. It's what the Left claims they faced themselves in the '40s and '50s.

I enjoyed my leftie professors at Berkeley. Studying Russian from emigres, I had plenty of Soviet-hating profs as well. But that was back in the '70s. Nowadays there are more leftie profs in Charlottesville than I had in Berkeley. Who knows what's going on at UC now.

Not to sound too left myself, I do think students benefit from many viewpoints. And as there is so much state money supporting colleges, politicians have a responsibility not to let left or right use college as a cheap soapbox.

I concur on all points.

Same old liberal $hite! Free Speech works only for what they want want Free Speech to work for. Which means that in that context it really isn't Free Speech at all. I swear, I do believe that liberalism is a mental disease.

This culture of "Don't talk to me about the morality of my actions. I shouldn't be forced to think about it or their consequences." is the reason we see things like this. The truth can't be discussed. We would prefer to listen to the band play as the ship sinks, then try to get in a lifeboat. As always, the cliches ring true: Da truth hurts, don' it?

Of course, Quid est veritas? Or, we could use the latest and greatest translation (as sure to be read my DocMcG later this evening), which probably says something along the lines of: "Truth? Yes, but what does that really mean, exactly?"