“I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible”

11 Replies to ““I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible””

1. You will find others exactly like him (same background, same career choices, same opinions etc.) working as analysts in the CIA, NSA and State Department. You would have difficulty finding any distinct differences between them. In fact, they actively recruit individuals exactly like him into the positions (which might help you understand why they keep making the wrong call or overlooking what would appear to be obvious signs of a coming event).

2. He just apologized for his language, he still meant every word but should have used more weasel words to confuse us.

3. “End the occupation”? Israel left Gaza in 2005 IIRC. Not only that, but there are no Jews in Gaza. They would have been killed to driven out – “ethnically cleansed” as they like to say.

   But nobody mentions that.

4. Said something stupid, and then waffles about his apology, and asked to take time off…

5. “Leave of Absence” = free time at home while getting paid.
   Such a severe punishment!

   1. Yup. He should have been fired on the spot. And every pro-hamas student demonstrator immediately expelled, with the international ones sent home the very next day. And this should happen not just in Canada and the US, but in every country on earth.

6. It would be fair, or at least consistent, that this professor be fired.

   But those who support freedom of speech — and particularly academic freedom — have to swallow hard and defend this guy’s job. The only way to stand up for your convictions is to stand up for your convictions.

   1. That ship has long since sailed. That is the point of “we didn’t make the new rules, but those are the new rules”. The Ctrl-left has seized the levers of power in all of our institutions and is systematically destroying their ideological opponents with these kinds of tactics because the right clings to a set of rules that no one else is playing by.

      Like the Geneva Conventions, the old rules only work when everyone agrees to abide by them. If your opponent decides to stop following them then all bets are off. They need to be taught – harshly, brutally – why those rules existed in the first place.

7. Run and hide, Rickford. Otherwise someone might want to put a fireaxe through your office door.

8. Professor Rickford should attend a social media training program.

9. Let’s fix that headline: Cornell university professor forced to take a leave of absence as he broke the rules and publicly embarrassed his employer.