The 2nd Amendment doesn't just deter criminals. It also gets rid of leftist college professors.
If only conservatives had known this all along, the NRA would have gotten twice as much support. Over at the University of Kansas, some leftist profs are leaving in a huff. "You won't have us to kick around America for your impressionable teenagers anymore."
The effect may not be what they intended.
Jacob Dorman isn't going quietly. After 10 years (and earning tenure) in the history department at the University of Kansas, he's leaving in large part because of a state law that, as of this summer, will allow guns on campus. That includes academic buildings.
Getting rid of a tenured lefty American Studies professors. Usually they're harder to get rid of than lice in a fleabag motel. The 2nd Amendment truly is amazing.
He starts off by writing about how much he has come to love Kansas, including "getting to know Kansans from rural communities where gun ownership and hard work are equally a way of life."
And now he's fleeing both.
"The citizens and elected representatives of Kansas must recognize that Kansas is a small state, and in order to run a premier university, which is necessary for the health and wealth of the state, it must recruit professors from out of state. Recruiting the best trained professors necessarily means recruiting from coastal areas and progressive college towns."
Don't you rubes understand, if you have guns, then you won't be able to recruit lefty professors from the better parts of the country where only the police and criminals have guns. And the lefty profs protest the police? How are you going to get top lefty talent to brainwash your kids if you don't ban guns?
He writes that "we discuss sensitive and highly charged topics in my classroom, concerning anti-religious bias, racism, sexism, classism and many other indexes of oppression and discrimination. Students need to be able to express themselves respectfully and freely, and they cannot do so about heated topics if they know that fellow students are armed and that a disagreement or argument could easily be lethal."
"An armed society is a polite society." Robert A. Heinlein
"You must refer to me as Xer or I will scream and spit in your filthy hetero-cis face because I'm oppressed." Xer
"Kansas faces a very clear choice: Does it want excellent universities, with world-class faculty, or does it want to create an exodus of faculty like myself who have options to teach in states that ban weapons in classrooms?"
Yes, please.
If all it took to drive these snakes out of Middle America was legal carry, it should have been done a generation ago. Then we can build a wall around Berkeley and let them non-violently fight each other over the last copy of A People's History of the United States to use as fuel.
"As with any job change, Dorman said, there were multiple factors to consider, but he said campus carry was decisive. "I would have left academia entirely rather than teach on a campus that allowed students to have guns in the classroom," he said.
Call me cynical, but I suspect campus carry had nothing to do with his decision. But the virtue signaling is good for his career. Still there are others...
Alice Lieberman, a professor of social welfare who has won several awards for her teaching at Kansas, said that campus carry wasn't the sole reason for her plan to retire, but it was a "tipping point" in her planning.
"I teach classes that are inherently political," she said. "And it only takes one disgruntled person."
And Maryemma Graham, a University Distinguished Professor of English, said she plans to look for jobs elsewhere if the university does not find a way to hold off campus carry. "I will pursue employment elsewhere if implementation goes through -- despite my great love for my colleagues, students and the wonderful work I have been able to do here. That work is highly dependent upon a culture of respect for difference and not fear of it."
What lefties mean by difference is that everyone must do things their way or they'll throw a tantrum. It doesn't mean that they will accept people who disagree with them.
But what will the University of Kansas do without an academic like Maryemma Graham
PhD, Cornell University, English: "Aesthetic and Ideological Radicalism in the 1930's”(Saunders Redding, Robert Elias, Cushing Strout). Areas of Specialization: African American Literature, 19th Century American Literature and Thought, Twentieth Century Novel MPS, Cornell University, Africana Studies. “Blackness, Womanness and Art: A Theory of Feminism.”
Faculty Appointments 1999-present Professor of English, Director, Project on the History of Black Writing,University of Kansas
Campus carry. It can save higher education in America. Parts of it anyway.