Thread by @jeffjarvis

Here's a Cliffs Notes for irony-challenged university presidents and journalists. The now-suspended Prof. Mehler imparts many lessons in this video, including....

1. Calling words profane is itself a profane act in a university that should be devoted to freedom of expression and exploration.
2. Plagiarism is a sin.
3. Syllabi stuffed full of ass-covering boilerplate fool no students.
4. Deadwood was fucking great...

5. American capitalism robbed native Americans and spread disease--cancer from tobacco--around the world.
6. Grading is bullshit and just a game of fate. (Note that he does say how one can earn an A.)
7. American Calvinism systematizes inequality....

8. Pandemics kill people. University administrators who open schools too soon without full protection, ignoring the alternative that the blessed internet and God-sent Zoom give us, are risking the lives of their entire community but especially faculty....

9. Journalists who stories about this allegedly profanity filled rant miss the fucking point, have no sense of irony, have no sense of the story, have no news judgment, and are after only clicks at the expense of informing the public...
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…

10. Prof. Mehler doesn't give a flying fuck what you think about his rant. He is a good teacher who imparts many lessons. He has tenure. He believes in academic freedom. He's about to retire. He doesn't want to die.

So, @FerrisState faculty, will you stand up for your colleague against your irony-challenged, literal-minded, puritanically minded, rump-covering, apparently humorless president, David Eisler?

I am hoping that @ass_deans has a comment.

Here is Dr. Mehler on Reddit. He's fighting.
old.reddit.com/user/Predestin…