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Beyond parody. WaPo Profiles a Howling LeftyBlog Moonbat

She signed petitions. She boycotted veal. She canvassed for Greenpeace. She donated to Planned Parenthood. She read the Nation, the New Yorker, the Utne Reader and Mother Jones. She agonized over low wages for overseas workers every time she bought a $40 leather purse.

Crazy indeed. Thats what too many vodka&tonic will do to ya...

Nice bit of malignant narcissism. The other group's freedom of speech -- a fundamental right, one cornerstone of our Constitutional system, here being peaceably exercised -- is less important in her worldview than her own feelings and is therefore fair game.

Would be interesting to keep an eye out for further news concerning Prof. Jacobsen. My guess is that she is the kind to scream that her own freedom of speech is being threatened when someone so much as contradicts her...and the kind to see no irony or hypocrisy in doing so.

"Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU's literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.

'I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to,' Jacobsen said."

Translation: "Nobody is allowed to express an opinion or viewpoint contrary to mine. Any such contradiction of my opinion must be destroyed."

"She said she was infuriated by the display, which she saw as intimidating and a 'slap in the face' to women who might be making 'the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion.'"

Translation: "Society has no right to hold an opinion on this or any other issue that involves a 'private decision.' Individual actions cannot be judged by the morality of the community at large. They can only be judged by MY interpretation of proper moral conduct, which, as noted above, is infalible and not subject to criticism."

"Jacobsen said it originally wasn't clear who had placed the crosses on campus.

She said that could make it appear that NKU endorsed the message.

Pulling up the crosses was similar to citizens taking down Nazi displays on Fountain Square, she said."

Translation: "Christians are Nazis. If we don't stifle their odious hate propoganda regarding the killing of unborn children now, it won't be long until we are all rounded up and marched off to Christian-run death camps. I am a hero for standing up to these Church Gestapo thugs who dared pollute this fair campus with their evil opinion that abortion is wrong. How could anyone be so hate-filled and domineering as to suggest that killing a baby is immoral? They have no right to express their opinion on this matter."

"'Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged,' Jacobsen said."

Translation: "Unless you are a victim you have no power. So I am claiming victim status and should be viewed as a champion of all of the oppressed masses, a hero of all that is good and true, because my feelings were hurt by a display of a differeing opinion than my own."

" 'Freedom-of-speech rights end where you infringe on someone else's freedom of speech,' [NKU President James] Votruba said.

'I don't buy the claim that this is an act of freedom of speech, to destroy property.'

He said he was gathering information about the extent of Jacobsen's participation.

'I don't know if she was pulling up the crosses, but I think she was out there with the students. If so, as far as I'm concerned, she went outside the conditions of her employment,' Votruba said.

He declined to say what consequences she might face. Jacobsen is a tenured professor who has been at NKU since 1980."

Comment: Although it sounds like the President of NKU is truly angry with professor Jacobsen, I doubt that any serious disciplinary action will actually come of this. I can hope that the professor will be dismissed (which in my opinion is the proper course of action IF his suspicion that she was actively engaged in the destruction of the display proves true), but I doubt there will be anything more than a letter of reprimand placed in her dossier in the personnel office. This slap on the wrist will mean nothing for her professional career; since she is tenured and has been there for over twenty years, she's obviously not trying to find a job somehwere else. In-house censure is a moot point in academe.

The multiple cross display was not visibly attributed to a campus approved group, which is a big deal on Northern's campus. Displays which are not approved are removed.

A lot of sites have compared her actions to nazi-like behavior or wild feminism. I assure you, she is neither.

Taking quotes and actions out of context is a wonderful way to simplify life, isn't it? A few more facts might help cool that righteous indignation.

xox

Nicci
(a duel degree graduate from the university in question.)