A conservative professor’s opening statement to students telling them to get out of his class and leave America if they dare disagree with him is going viral.
Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, is making waves as part of a conservative effort to brand liberal arts professors as being overwhelmingly liberal.
Campus Reform, an organization dedicated to providing resources for young conservative students, published a report last week claiming that “99.51% of top liberal arts prof. contributions go to Democrats.”
Several conservative websites are supplementing this report by republishing Adams’ semester-opening statement, first published by Adams on the conservative website Townhall.
Adams is no stranger to controversy,1 having recently won a seven-year legal battle with his administration for a claim they denied him a promotion due to his conservative Christian views.
Adams prefaced his statement, entitled “Get Out of My Class and Leave America” with the following author’s note: “The following column is comprised of excerpts taken from my first lectures on the first day of classes this semester at UNC-Wilmington. I reproduced these remarks with the hope that they would be useful to other professors teaching at public universities all across America. Feel free to use this material if you already have tenure.”
Adams begins by defining the intended target of his statement: “the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended,” adding “That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.”
He then explains: “Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended,” adding that their confusion is either the result of their “public education” or the university’s speech code, that “specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is ‘respectful.'”
“That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire,” Adams explains to his students.
In all too typical McCarthy/Ted Cruz fashion, Adams goes on to blame the communists for this kind of thinking:
One of my grandfathers served in World War I. My step-grandfather served in World War II. My sixth great grandfather enlisted in the American Revolution when he was only thirteen. These great men did not fight so we could simply relinquish our rights to the enemy within our borders. That enemy is the Marxists who run our public universities. If you are a Marxist and I just offended you, well, that’s tough. I guess they don’t make communists like they used to.
Complaining about the university’s sponsorship of the episodic play “The Vagina Monologues,” he summarizes the university’s speech code as follows: “Public university administrators have a First Amendment right to use disrespectful profanity but public university students do not.”
Adams concludes by recounting an earlier incident with a student before making three demands of his students:
Unbelievably, a student once complained to the Department chairwoman that my mention of God and a Creator was a violation of Separation of Church and State. Let me be as clear as I possibly can: If any of you actually think that my decision to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence in the course syllabus is unconstitutional then you suffer from severe intellectual hernia.
Indeed, it takes hard work to become stupid enough to think the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. If you agree with the student who made that complaint then you are probably just an anti-religious zealot. Therefore, I am going to ask you to do exactly three things and do them in the exact order that I specify.
First, get out of my class. You can fill out the drop slip over at James Hall. Just tell them you don’t believe in true diversity and you want to be surrounded by people who agree with your twisted interpretation of the Constitution simply because they are the kind of people who will protect you from having your beliefs challenged or your feelings hurt.
Second, withdraw from the university. If you find that you are actually relieved because you will no longer be in a class where your beliefs might be challenged then you aren’t ready for college. Go get a job building houses so you can work with some illegal aliens who will help you gain a better appreciation of what this country has to offer.
Finally, if this doesn’t work then I would simply ask you to get the hell out of the country. The ever-growing thinned-skinned minority you have joined is simply ruining life in this once-great nation. Please move to some place like Cuba where you can enjoy the company of communists and get excellent health care. Just hop on a leaky boat and start paddling your way towards utopia. You will not be missed.
Thank you for your time. I’ll see most of you when classes resume on Monday.
FOOTNOTE 1: As The College Fix reports, Adams caused a stir in April 2015 when he “went apoplectic in his Townhall.com column… over a campus administrator who apparently tried to organize a “‘human shield’ to block a pro-life display with gruesome abortion images, the ‘Genocide Awareness Project.'”
In a letter of complaint sent to school officials, Adams threatened another lawsuit and warned officials “the animals needed to be caged so the adults could have a dialogue,” in reference to pro-choice students.
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