No great shock.
A couple of weeks ago, radical leftist University of Iowa professor Ellen Lewin received an email from the college republicans of the University of Iowa, announcing a “coming out conservative” week on the college. In the true sense of liberal tolerance, she fired off a response.
“F*** YOU, REPUBLICANS.”
While this story got some coverage in the conservative media, the drive by media ignored the story. Why should they pay attention to it? It does not fit their template. After all, the perpetrator of the outrage was a liberal professor and the victims a conservative group. The drive by media simply yawned and in effect said move on; there is no story here.
Natalie Ginty is the chair of the Iowa Federation of College Republicans and she was pretty outraged with what happened. She was also shocked that no action has been taken against Ellen Lewin, so she has filed a formal complaint.
Given the liberal nature of the University of Iowa, the exercise is not going to be in disciplining an arrogant, out of control jerk, who has delusions of power because of her over inflated position. It will be to see how the University can bury this.
At TPN, we have talked about Lewin before. What is her position at the University of Iowa? She is a professor of “Gender Studies.” Her biography states: “As a scholar working at the juncture of feminist, cultural, and medical anthropology, Lewin’s work has long concerned the ways in which women make sense of the multiple identities they derive from ethnicity, race, and class, sexual orientation, and maternal status. In lesbian and gay studies her work has focused on the construction of community in American cultural contexts, and, in response to recent debates in feminist and queer theory, to devising more nuanced understandings of concepts of resistance and accommodation.”
According to the University of Iowa website, these are the courses she teaches: Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Women, Health, and Healing Mothers and Motherhood, The Politics of Reproduction, Feminist Anthropology, Feminist Ethnography, Feminist Medical Anthropology, Foundations for Feminist Inquiry.
While Lewin receives her Professor’s salary to teach classes that can best be described as political indoctrination, the taxpayers of the State of Iowa and the students at the University of Iowa are footing the bill. This fall, on average, tuition at the University of Iowa is going up by $308. Nursing students are going to see a 41% increase while engineering students are seeing a 21% tuition increase.
The question that really should be asked here is, why is the University of Iowa even funding this professor and the “gender studies,” curriculum. Why is there a “Woman’s studies” department, which is nothing more than a center for feminist indoctrination?
I suspect if you ask most Iowans, they would not approve of this department, so why are they being forced pay for it? If you asked most Iowans, I suspect they would say they need more nurses and engineers and a lot fewer rabid feminazis.
So why does the State of Iowa continue to pay this professor and fund these departments in this time of economic distress? There is someone who might be able to answer that question. His name is Kraig Paulsen. He is the Republican Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives. In Iowa, the GOP controls the House with a twenty-vote majority, though the Democrats control the State Senate with a two-vote majority. According to the Iowa State website, his email is kraig.paulsen@legis.state.ia.us. Perhaps we should be asking him these questions. The President of the Iowa Senate is Jack Kibbie. Although he is a Democrat, perhaps the same questions should be asked of him. His email is john.kibbie@legis.state.ia.us.
We conservatives can accept business as usual. Business is usual is liberals harassing conservatives and then when we call on it, the liberal establishment sweeping it under the carpet or we can stand and fight.
My vote is we stand and fight. For too long, we have simply sat back and let liberals run wild. If you have children or grandchildren in college or who will be in college in the next few years, we need to fight back so colleges and universities truly become institutions of higher learning and not liberal indoctrination factories.
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