"I was stolen away in the night," he said.

And he's pissed about this? Is he complaining that the university was too half-assed to send actual brownshirts with actual lethal weapons to take him out, the way his heroes would have done?

I say put him and Churchill in a cage and let them fight it out.

Um... the Nazis have their own news service?

Ace, Jacques Pluss was an adjunct professor of history, which is really low on the totem pole. He might even be a newly-minted Ph.D (although it looks like he's taught elsewhere before). Often adjuncts are people with real jobs who come in and teach a few classes, but aren't even tenure track.

Point being that Nazi boy here didn't have tenure, while Big Chief Little Eichmanns does.

Ya gotta love this line from the NSM's release. I can see where you thought this was a parody:

"We at the NSM also realize that the Constitution is best protected in a free marketplace of ideas rather than by school officials that may be controlled by political correctness and Jews."

Free marketplace, indeed.

Uh oh. Cedarford's gonna be pissed...

Apparently. They were using my blog as their newswire for a while, but then they discovered that I enjoyed that "barbaric Negro jazz."

Incidentally, "Jacques" seems an odd name for a Nazi.

A collaborator, sure, but an actual Nazi?

Point being that Nazi boy here didn't have tenure, while Big Chief Little Eichmanns does.

Yes, I kinda alluded to that. But tenure is not a thing of constitutional import. Universities can expand it and retract it at will. So I really don't care who's tenured and who is not (I'm sure that professors do).

The real question is whether one can be fired from a university for his beliefs, or whether the university exists to provide absolute and untrammelled exchanges of opinion.

It plainly does NOT (which is sensible enough), and why are we pretending it does? Only to protect left-wingers who cross the line.

Incidentally, "Jacques" seems an odd name for a Nazi.

A collaborator, sure, but an actual Nazi?

I'm sure his real father or grandfather was a Nazi, you know what I mean?

OTOH maybe this guy is Cedarford.

I believe Pluss claims to be 1/32 Nazi on his mother's side.

Well,I look at tenure as a contract between the university and the professor. You get to teach what you want, show up for class now and then, and you can say all kinds of crazy crap and still have a job in the morning.

That's why FDU is weaseling on the reasoning here. They're saying it's because Pluss didn't show up for class six times that they're firing him. Not because he's a nazi.

Um... the Nazis have their own news service?

Where else would Google News get its stories?

Apparently an "adjunct" professor is one step above "drooling retard" (aka. bloggers who read this site)

I see the potential for a reality TV show, or at least a sitcom out of this.

The pitch: Jacques Pluss,Ward Churchill, and Farrakhan are stranded on a desert island, (with Adam Smith as their only reading material).
Watch the wacky hijinks they get into, blaming the US for their misfortunes and try to decide whether to call the US "the Man", ZOG, or big lying white father.

For a season finale, Sen. Lieberman can fly in on a USMC chopper and offer them aid.

Well,I look at tenure as a contract between the university and the professor....

That's why FDU is weaseling on the reasoning here.

Any contract can be broken. You know that.

And your second sentence undermines your first. It's because the universities claim they support absolute free speech that they feel they need to make up excuses to fire this Nazi jackass.

But they don't seem eager to use similar excuses to fire Ward Churchill. Maybe they will... we'll have to see.

Certainly you won't hear Al Franken championing this fuckweasel's right to talk about "niggers" and "kikes" in the classroom.

Vicious talk like that is only allowed to leftists.

It's not true that removing someone from their soapbox infringes on their absolute freedom of speech. They can still say whatever they want, they just can't say it where they want.

Yeah, Ace, CU is deliberating on the plagiarism and fake ethnicity complaints against Churchill. You can fire someone for "dishonesty" or "never showing up to teach", but not for "being a totalitarian jackass". So they want to preserve the illusion at least that both Churchill and Pluss are in trouble for cause and not for content.

I'm not disputing there's a double standard here, believe me. Just saying that there's a greater level of protection surrounding Churchill's position than Pluss's, and it's understandable that CU wants to preserve the illusion that tenure is sacrosanct.

This is a joke, right? Right?

By the way this is Fairleigh Dickinson University, yes the Fairleigh Dickinson, and I've got to tell ya...fellas...you have got what appears to be a dynamite sound.

Whoa whoa...fellas, it was sounding great...but, I coulda used a little more cowbell. Let's take it again, and Jacques? Really explore the studio space this time. I mean really. Explore the space. I like what I'm hearing.

Never question Fairleigh Dickinson! Roll it!

See-dub,

Just don't say the following:

"I've got a fever and the only prescription is more National Social-ism".

Otherwise, Cedarford might view that as an invitation....

Above comment was me...damn filter screwed me up on Nat Soc.

So is this a real story or what?

free speech kinda sucks sometimes .. Well I'm glad I can know counsel my kids to apply to the venerated Farleigh Dickinson U -- gosh I hope their SAT scores are high enough!

Think of the double standard in the use of symbols, too. I saw this young guy walk into my favorite coffeeshop last night, modeling a red tee-shirt with the hammer and sickle on it. No one made him leave; certainly I didn't, cuz I thought he was hot, commie or not. But I immediately thought that if he'd come in with a swastika on his shirt, he'd have been told to get out. Of course, maybe the hammer and sickle are viewed as kitsch these days. But my sense was that the guy was "serious."

Jack,

Yes, it's real. First I thought there was a chance it was an April Fool's Day hoax, but it's not.

Real.

I meant to address that to John.

Okely dokely