I’ve made a living over the last few years by exposing the intolerance, hypocrisy, and intellectual dishonesty of the academic left. Usually, I cross paths with these people by accident. But, because I’m a professor and I’ve never really grown up, I sometimes enjoy baiting them with premeditated experiments designed to test their commitment to tolerance. The latest victim of such an experiment is James Trost, a professor at the University of Michigan. Yesterday, he sent me the following email:
What a horrible and anti-intellecutal [sic] article I ran across on Townhall.com today. Who the hell do you think you are? I’m sorry that you are bombarded by “gays” threatening you at every turn, but then, you certainly don’t have a right to demonize an entire segment of our population. As a university professor myself, I am ashamed that you are allowed to “educate” young minds. Your rationale for your beliefs based on your own interpretation of reality is offensive to all humanity. I hope you don’t have tenure, but it [sic] you do, I pray to God no students enroll in your classes.
James Trost ([email protected]), Professor, University of Michigan
I have decided to respond to Professor Trost with this open letter. I will also respond separately to each of the six sentences in his missive. Given his superior intellect, it would be foolish to tackle his profound ideas all at once:
1. What a horrible and anti-intellecutal [sic] article I ran across on Townhall.com today.
Professor, I am unable to respond to this sentence because I am unfamiliar with the term “intellecutal.” I’m sure you meant to say “intellecutal,” not “intellectual.” Otherwise, you would be “anti-intellectual” and perhaps a tad “hypocritucal.”
2. Who the hell do you think you are?
I’m a guy who knows how to use his spell-checker.
3. I’m sorry that you are bombarded by “gays” threatening you at every turn, but then, you certainly don’t have a right to demonize an entire segment of our population.
Professor, I am sorry that you have formed and expressed the opinion that I have no right to form and express the opinion that homosexuality is a mental illness. But those who believe that the constitution protects sodomy but not criticism of sodomy are, indeed, emotionally disturbed. To be a professor at the University of Michigan, you must have a high IQ – unless you teach education or social work. To arrive at such a twisted conclusion about the constitutional supremacy of sodomy – over freedom of speech and freedom of religion – one must have some form of emotional disturbance impeding his intellectual potential. I hereby express my First Amendment right to say that, in your case, I believe that emotional disturbance is homosexuality.
4. As a university professor myself, I am ashamed that you are allowed to “educate” young minds.
Are you saying that since I believe that homosexuality is a valid basis for keeping gays from teaching children, I should not be allowed to teach? One of us believes that tolerance is the highest virtue. The other sees tolerance as the virtue of a man without principles. Which one of us is the hypocrite?
5. Your rationale for your beliefs based on your own interpretation of reality is offensive to all humanity.
No, it isn’t. Most people agree with me but they are simply afraid to say so because gays are so intolerant. I’m trying to change all that. You seek the status quo of intolerance in the marketplace of ideas.
6. I hope you don’t have tenure, but it [sic] you do, I pray to God no students enroll in your classes.
I am sorry to report that I do have tenure. That means your prayer to God is going to have to be very good. In order to help patch things up between us, I have supplied a sample prayer you might want to say to Jesus every night before you go to bed. I hope you’ll consider using the following:
“Dear Jesus: Please get Mike Adams out of the classroom. He has accepted the words of the Apostle Paul – in Romans, Chapter One- as being the inspired Word of God. He places his faith in the inerrancy of your Holy Scriptures, not in the inerrancy of the Gods of Diversity and Political Correctness. He steadfastly adheres to the Word of God no matter how often the people of the far more enlightened homosexual community threaten to sever his genitalia. May he and all those like him be removed from the halls of academe and replaced with those of us who have a more enlightened view of your Word, which was misinterpreted by the intolerant, homophobic, and, ultimately, misguided Paul of Tarsus.
Dear Jesus, I pray that before the day of your Second Coming our classrooms will be filled only with homosexuals and those who support our agenda. And may the unemployment lines be filled with those who believe in those homophobic portions of the New Testament, which, I know, Jesus, were not written in accordance with your Will. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.”
Alternately, James, you may want to consider praying directly to Satan. He’ll be more receptive to your blasphemy and arrogance. Tolerance has always been his highest virtue and his ultimate objective.
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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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