The Washington Times brings up a good point in their editorial today.
The point, as I see it, is that the liberal-left agenda is working out just dandy.
Timothy Shortell, whom this editorial is about, is a professor at Brooklyn College. He teaches. He’s a teacher. Teaching our youth. And this is acceptable:
In fevered Weblog entries and online journal articles bearing his teaching affiliation, Mr. Shortell has called religious people “moral idiots” and “ugly.” He called America “fascist” and likened Republicans to Nazis.
[…] Hatred for religion is where Mr. Shortell’s singular demerits become evident. “Christians claim that theirs is a faith based on love, but they’ll just as soon kill you,” Mr. Shortell says. “Can there be any doubt that humanity would be better off without religion?” he writes. “These moral retards are running around pointing fingers and doing real harm to others. One only has to read the newspaper to see the results of their handiwork. They discriminate, exclude, and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot.” No word on where Mr. Shortell, a social psychologist by training, found the data to support all this.
That Mr. Shortell should get so much less coverage than Mr. [Ward] Churchill perhaps demonstrates how commonplace such nonsense is in the academy. To be sure, Mr. Shortell is another egregiously misguided professor of the left. But that hardly justifies the lack of media coverage. On the contrary, it proves that we’ve grown numb to the problem.
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