Ellen teaches gender studies and suchlike at the University of Iowa. In her spare time she supplements her $94,000 salary writing lefty things, especially (and I assume approvingly) about gay dads and lesbians. So far, no problem as far as I'm concerned. They don't call it Marxist U for nothing, and we've always been willing to grin and bear the Ellens of the lecture halls.
But I wonder why she was on the college Republican kids' mailing list. She was and received an invitation to their "Conservative Coming Out." Her two-word eff off response got around and is creating pockets of both outrage and giggles around the campus. Read about it here.
She finally decided she had to make some sort of apologia and did, emphasizing, however, her horror at those damned GOPer kids for mentioning the picnic would include an "animal rights barbecue" and profaning the "coming out" phrase.
In other words, "I shouldn't have emailed you to fuck off, but you deserved it."
We have to accept that because everyone knows it's only the gun-clinging, tea partying rubes of the right -- and libertarians -- who use indelicate language in political discourse.
EDITS:
(1) -- Later reports confirm the kid Republicans' email was approved by the official university censors and sent to everyone with campus email account.
(2) -- Ellen used three words, not two. She said: "F--k Off Republicans."
2 comments:
Hey, I'm a gun-clinging libertarian, and I don't know what the fu...
Ooooh. You almost had me there.
;)
tweaker
Here’s an interview with University of Iowa Professors Timothy Hagle (the University of Iowa College Republicans faculty advisor) and Kembrew McLeod, Matt Sowada, the conservative co-host of the political talk radio show American Reason on KRUI, and Rod Sullivan from the Johnson County Board of Supervisors about Professor Ellen Lewin’s “F— You, Republicans!” email response to the University of Iowa College Republicans campus-wide invite for people to participate in “Conservative Coming Out Week.”
http://www.patv.tv/blog/2011/04/27/talking-with-yale-cohn-discussing-professor-ellen-lewins-f-you-email-response-to-the-university-of-iowa-college-republicans/
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