Recently, a man dressed as a woman — who happens to teach at UNC-Chapel Hill (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~vicci) – wrote a letter to my Chair, Dean, Provost, Chancellor, and every member of my department. Although he gave my work some unexpected exposure, his intentions were far from benevolent.
In the letter, which complains about my recent editorial (titled “Perversity and diversity at my little university”) this man (claiming to be a “former” man after a sex change) stated that he has “no quibble with (my) right to (my) political beliefs nor (my) right to express them in a public forum.”
After supporting my rights to free speech, he says he is “appalled however by the bigoted and intolerant tone of (my) essay, written as it was by a Professor of Criminal Justice in the fine State of North Carolina.” He added that he is “especially concerned that (my) bigoted writings influence (my) students towards perpetuation of a long-standing culture of police and law enforcement stigmatization and persecution of transgender people.”
For the record, let it be known that I do not talk about methods of trans-gendered law enforcement in any of my classes. I seem to be behind the times.
This man dressed as a woman further stated that I ridicule “four courageous young students who are now undergoing gender transitions at other universities — ridiculing them openly by name and in grossly sexualized terms at this particularly difficult time in their lives.”
Having seen “The Vagina Monologues” I would contest the assertion that I have used “grossly sexualized terms” but, for the record, I plead guilty to the other charges.
My condemnation of these student sex changes is driven by more than my interpretation of Deuteronomy 22:5. I simply believe that it is immoral to applaud young people who want to surgically alter their genitalia before they are old enough to consume alcohol.
But this man who thinks he is a woman has greater insight:
“Adams has gone well beyond his usually rather clever liberal-baiting attention-seeking, and instead reveals a darker, less well-controlled, discriminatory side of his personality.”
He goes on to lament the “extreme level of violence against the trans community” and “incidents of terrible hate crimes against trans people” that is producing a “growing public outcry.” And, he reminds us that “The growing awareness of anti-trans violence has also led many cities to provide police special training on the dangers facing trans people.”
Finally, he asked the following “Questions for the Criminal Justice Program at UNC”:
1. Do the other UNC CRJ faculty members take offense at what Adams says about young gender transitioners?
2. Do they sense how he is propping-up an old-time “cop culture” that ridicules and dehumanizes gender minorities?
3. Do they see how this adds fuel to the fires of violence against trans people?
All of this terminates in the following appeal for a condemnation of my political and religious views:
“… you have a civic obligation to go on record in opposition to (Dr. Adams) discriminatory teachings…If in your subsequent individual and/or collective opinion, you agree that Dr. Adams’s article should not go unanswered, we urge you to publish your own individual views, or even better a joint manifesto clearly distancing UNCW and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice from his teachings…”
Of course, I am deeply offended by the use of the term “manifesto.” While it does reveal the relationship between the campus diversity movement and the communist party, it also has sexist overtones. In light of Vicci’s assertion that those who have had sex changes are not an “insignificant sector, perhaps as large as a half percent, of the general population” I think the term should be changed to “wo-manifesto.” This probably will not require any significant surgery.
I am also offended that anti-religious bigots are not honest about their agenda. They seek to immediately stigmatize anyone holding orthodox religious beliefs — those that do not affirm even the most depraved of “alternate lifestyles.” And, ultimately, with total disregard for the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, they seek official condemnation — preferably on university letterhead – of all religious views not in accordance with the philosophy of moral relativism.
This latest attempt to get me in trouble with my so-called superiors shows what the leaders of the gay rights movement in America really want. They want more than to be left alone. They want more than to be safe from harm. They want more than to have equal protection of the laws.
They want our unconditional approval. And if we refuse to give it, they want our jobs.
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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