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The right says some crappy things now and again. But this sorry excuse for a human being is a prime example of why we will never get along. And the fact that the school cowers to her and won't fire her ass...wtf...I don't care about tenure. And twitter and facebook is just allowing this fire to burn faster and faster..\ Despite what many on this board think, the right does not own hate.

Totallt classless and to think she has a position to indoctrinate young minds. We are doomed.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/fresno-state-responds-professor-calls-171906352.html

A Tuesday Twitter rant from a Fresno State English professor sparked an immediate backlash after Randa Jarrar labeled Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” on the same day the former first lady died.

Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro released a statement on the school’s website Tuesday evening denouncing Jarrar’s comments while extending “deepest condolences to the Bush family” following the 92-year-old Bush matriarch’s death at her Houston home. Jarrar’s Tuesday Twitter posts took shots at both former presidents, George H.W. and George W. Bush, and lashed out at those offering the family support. “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. outta here with your nice words,” Jarrar wrote in the now-protected tweet.

Screen Shot 2018-04-18 at 9 A Tuesday Twitter rant from a Fresno State English professor sparked immediate backlash after Randa Jarrar labeled Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” on the same day the former First Lady died. Screenshot: Twitter

Jarrar is a tenured professor who describes herself as Arab-American on her author page and says she “grew up in Kuwait and Egypt” before moving to the U.S. following the Gulf War. After thousands of Twitter replies blasted her first tweet and called for her removal from the school, Jarrar doubled down and tweeted from her verified account, “I will never be fired.” She continued responding, writing a separate tweet, “If you’d like to know what it’s like to be an Arab American Muslim American woman with some clout online expressing an opinion, look at the racists going crazy in my mentions right now.”

Jarrar continued trading barbs with other Twitter users for roughly three hours, even tagging the Department of Homeland Security's official handle, Fresno State’s official account and challenging a user handle called “@LogicalRighties” to contact school president Castro, KFSN-TV first reported. Both the school and Castro promptly issued statements via Twitter:

"On behalf of Fresno State, I extend my deepest condolences to the Bush family on the loss of our former First Lady, Barbara Bush. We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by Professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State. Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative of Fresno State. Professor Jarrar's expressed personal views and commentary are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view, and a sincere commitment to mutual understanding and progress."

After receiving more than 2,400 replies, her Twitter account was locked, her brief profile bio changed to, “Currently on leave from Fresno State. this [sic] is my private account and represents my opinions.” In addition, the Fresno State English Department's website lists her as on "LEAVE."

The College Republicans of Fresno State issued a statement to Newsweek: "The comments from Professor Randa Jarrar are wholly inappropriate and out of line. Barbara Bush's years of service to children and adults alike in promoting literacy are something to be celebrated. While Professor Jarrar's comments are protected under the First Amendment, the provocative and reckless manner that she conducted herself through her tweets last night is irresponsible. We believe that Ms. Jarrar has crossed the line and should be terminated from her position at Fresno State."

Jarrar is an author whose works include the 2009 "Arab-American coming of age novel," A Map of Home, as well as her latest book, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, about displaced Muslim men and women "who have gone astray," according to the book's description.

This is not Fresno State's first tweet controversy from a professor. In August, American history instructor Lars Maischak took a voluntary leave of absence after tweeting, "To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better." School president Castro put out a statement at the time saying Maischak would not be returning to teach classes when they resume and his course was converted online to fulfill his contractual obligation.

Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement to Newsweek: "This is a little ridiculous. We live in a time when the nation's chief executive routinely uses Twitter to disparage the integrity, honesty and capacities of hapless individuals in the most insulting ways. Now the professional future of a college professor is imperiled because of her admittedly ill-timed, but evidently sincere, expression of outrage over the tears being shed over Mrs. Bush's death. This is why we have a First Amendment."

Earlier this year, a Golden West College counselor in Huntington Beach, California, ridiculed an Asian-American couple for "European-American displacement" before screaming "I never voted for you!" in a video. The school issued an apology.

Sorry state of affairs.



That woman should be canned.



If I was paying for one of my children to go there, they would transfer at the next semester break.

As disgusting as a PDF post.
Shame!

No need to get personal. I don't think PDF would agree with this woman. Even if deep down he does, I think he is smart enough to know there comes a time to let go.

how was barbara bush a racist? thats the first time i ever heard anybody make that claim about her. but i'm young so i dunno much about that.

and the whole raising a war criminal thing....i get it, but come on. she's acting as if barbara was the one who made that decision to go to war.

how about the fact that she raised some amazing men? one who became president, and another who was governor of florida.

She wasn't. We all but this lone idiot at Fresno State make that claim.

Good for Randa. She's a great author.

Sorry man, you just lost points. There comes a time where politics are only hung on to by the ignorant.

Why can't I judge her as a person and only on a political point?

Edward Wasserman, dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement to Newsweek: "This is a little ridiculous. We live in a time when the nation's chief executive routinely uses Twitter to disparage the integrity, honesty and capacities of hapless individuals in the most insulting ways. Now the professional future of a college professor is imperiled because of her admittedly ill-timed, but evidently sincere, expression of outrage over the tears being shed over Mrs. Bush's death. This is why we have a First Amendment."

The First Amendment is protection against persecution by the government not blank check to be a heartless and soulless entity.

Nobody said to lock her up, just fire her arse.

And just to show that vile behavior is not just confined to one group, here is a little something from Roger Stone

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roger-stone-disses-barbara-bush-nasty-drunk-news-132928624.html



Trump political consigliere Roger Stone unloaded on Barbara Bush in an Instagram post on Tuesday evening just hours after her death. There, Stone wrote that the former first lady was a “nasty drunk” and posted a quote from him suggesting that if you lit her body on fire it would “burn for three days.”

“Barbara Bush was a nasty drunk. When it came to drinking she made Betty Ford look like Carrie Nation #blottoBabs,” said Stone. “Barbara Bush drank so much booze, if they cremated her … her body would burn for three days.”

The former first lady died last night after several years in failing health. She was 92.

Well that's just nuts.. BB was a pretty great lady... Always admired her.

As for the Right saying crappy things, yeah, but so does the left...

RIB Barbera

Someone who grew up in Kuwait during the gulf war and had to flee to Egypt via Iraq might have a different perspective than a Stateside American on the Gulf war and the war on terror.

What kind of person would live in a country they truly hate then. I ask all liberals. . . .

Where did she say she hated America?

...I'm not particularly liberal, but the "obvious" answer is a member of a sleeper cell.

I'm more concerned that an English professor would use such lousy grammar.

J\C
I love how the hateful Dean had her back by using a typical twisted minded liberal wattaboutism , sounds like libs on this board.

you stay saying the dumbest crap around here.

like, every time you post, i expect to read something with no basis in reality.

Because we live in a world where you are judged based on your biggest failings.. that's it. Doesn't matter what else you do that might be good in this world, whatever big mistakes you've ever made, the worst things you do is the benchmark for your whole existence... I didn't make the rules.

Your entire brand on this board is being known for saying bizarrely creepy and disgusting things. Why on earth would you open that jar?

Just yesterday, you said that when you were in high school, you used to physically assault women because you enjoyed hearing them scream.

Fake News and word games.

And you wonder why you are so broadly ignored.

This is you, yesterday:



Remember? I mocked you cause it sounded like something Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs" would say.

It was in the thread where you used big bold yellow letters to say that people were nitpicking and just looking for "anything to dump on Trump" when we were all mocking the fact that Trump hired a creepy 31 year old dude to write his executive orders for him without legal supervision. And then you were asked to explain why we were wrong, and why it's actually a smart and good thing for Trump to hire some weird flake with no legal training to write his EO's, and then you ran off with your tail between your legs.

It is very interesting in how we can treat the dead. I remember when Osama was killed, I was partying with other people. I remember reading how Trayvon Martin was a thug when he was killed and some backlash. Now I will remember this with its universal backlash. I wonder how big this would be if Randa waited a week before tweeting.

Word games.

People didn't believe the accusers with the Judge so you labeled them Pedophiles. Repeating it until it became another PDF fact.

You attack a grown man in his 30's for something he said in High School, I call you on that pettiness and now I am a child abuser even though the statement was to point out your ridiculousness.

Trump passes a complete Mental and Physical exam with flying colors and you keep repeating he is senile and sick.

Keep repeating these things until they also become a PDF fact.
There are a few who will drink your koolaid.

Like I said, Fake News and word games.

Back to ignoring you now. Bye Bye, hope you find help.

I've had the same policy for over a decade here and in life - unless it was someone truly heinous and awful, if you don't have anything nice to say about the recently deceased, don't say anything. I wasn't a big fan of Barbara Bush.

I do love the irony that the whole "oh, snowflake, are you offended because I'm not being politically correct?" crowd is suddenly very offended snowflakes because someone said something politically incorrect.

Now and again..???

But yeah, nobody can seem to show a little empathy at all anymore. These are the same people that feel a need to to throw a dark negative spin on everything and want to argue about it with others they don't even know on the internet.

Why would anybody need to tweet this at all, ever? Just because you feel something and just because you have a platform to say it... doesn't mean it needs to be said.

I thought that was one of the lefts biggest complaints with Trump is his attacking people and giving a bunch of unnecessary hateful opinions of people on Twitter? You can't say you hate it, while YOU are doing it.

In the words of MLKJr "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

After the fifth woman came forward with molestation stories, as well as three police officers who all claimed that Moore was banned from the local mall and that they were ordered to have an officer watch him at all times during high school football games, you kept calling him honorable.

That's beyond creepy.



Miller was asked about the incident when the story broke 5 months ago, and his response was that he was not ashamed of running onto the track during a girls meet to prove men were superior to women, and would do it again if he could.



How, exactly, was claiming that you pulled women's hair in high school - which is budding serial killer behavior - call out or point out everybody mocking the weird idiot Trump hired as a right-hand man on foreign policy?

And even if you were using it as a rhetorical device (though I don't understand how claiming to be a weird creep shows anything)...given your history of embarrassing yourself with incredibly creepy and bizarre statements expressing admiration for sexual predators, why would you even go there?



He's either senile or one of the dumbest people to ever walk the earth. I believe it's the former.

And he's absolutely sick - he's a racist sexual predator who lacks empathy.

Remember last week when he was watching drone strike footage and got upset because they waited until the target's family left the house to kill him? Because, as he's stated on several occasions - Trump wholeheartedly wants to murder the family members of military targets?

Could you explain to me how that's not sick?

Maybe after you explain how it's ridiculous and "anything to dump on Trump" when we all mocked Trump for hiring a creepy idiot to write executive orders that get shot down in court? Weird you haven't gotten around to explaining that yet.

And free tip - this time try to avoid rhetorical devices where you describe yourself doing serial killer things.