A
FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IS DEALING WITH A
FIRESTORM FOLLOWING WHAT SHE PUT UP ON TWITTER IN REGARD TO
BARBARA BUSH PASSING AWAY.
I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU HER TWEETS AND
THEN WE WILL DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT SHE SHOULD KEEP HER JOB,
KEEP IN MIND, FRESNO STATE IS PART OF THE CSU SYSTEM IN
CALIFORNIA STATE MEANING IT IS A PUBLICLY FUNDED INSTITUTION AND
SHE IS A TENURED PROFESSOR BUT HERE'S WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY.
HER
NAME IS RANDA JARRAR.
YOU KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE SHE SAT.
SHE IS NOT REALLY
BUYING ALL OF THE REST IN PEACE TWEETS THAT FOLLOWED NEWS OF HER
PASSING.
THEN SHE SAID:
SO PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY, AND IT LED TO
TWITTER OUTRAGE WHICH IS COMMON WITH TWITTER.
PEOPLE ARE
OUTRAGED
ABOUT EVERYTHING.
SO TENURED PROFESSORS USUALLY DO HAVE MORE PROTECTION AND THE
WHOLE PURPOSE FOR THAT IS SO THEY CAN DO SOME ACADEMIC
RESEARCH THAT COULD BE CONTROVERSIAL.
THEY DO NOT WANT
TO LOSE THEIR JOBS IF THEY WANT TO DIP THEIR TOE AND SOMETHING
CONTROVERSIAL, THE SHE IS SAYING, I HAVE PROTECTION.
THIS
IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
BUT OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY DIDN'T REALLY RESPOND IN A
WAY THAT MAKES ME COMFORTABLE WHEN IT COMES TO PROTECTING
HER FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
I WILL GET TO THEN JUST A SECOND, BUT I DO WANT TO
TALK TO YOU AND GET SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS.
WHY ARE PEOPLE UPSET?
A COUPLE OF REASONS, MOST OF THEM ILLEGITIMATE.
NUMBER ONE,
BARBARA BUSH IS CONSIDERED GENTEEL APPARENTLY AND SO HOW
COULD YOU DO THIS TO THIS POOR WOMAN?
SHE HAD VERY GOOD REASON TO NOT LIKE BARBARA BUSH.
I WAS NOT A
FAN OF BARBARA BUSH WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE FOR REASONS THAT WE ARE
GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU, QUOTES OF BARBARA BUSH AND WHAT SHE
SAID ABOUT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.
THE SECOND REASON IS YOU ARE NOT
SUPPOSED TO SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD.
I DO NOT KNOW WHO MADE
THE ROLE, I DON'T BELIEVE IT AND SO WHEN BAD GUYS DIE, I DO
NOT CARE, CRITICIZE THEM TOO.
LET'S PLEASE MENTION WHAT THE MASSIVE CAVIAR IS WHEN IT
COMES TO THOSE MAKING THE ARGUMENT IN REGARD TO NOT
SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE COUNTLESS PEOPLE
WHO ARE TORN APART, SMEARED, AND SPOKEN ABOUT AS IF THEY ARE
ABSOLUTE CRIMINALS FOLLOWING THEIR DEATH THAT WAS CAUSED BY A
COP SHOOTING THEM WHILE THEY WERE UNARMED.
SO WE SPEAK ILL
OF THE DEAD IN THIS COUNTRY ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND A DAILY BASIS
AND MY GUESS IS, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFENDING BARBARA BUSH
AND SAYING THAT THEY ARE VERY OFFENDED BY THIS ARE THE SAME
PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT SOMEONE LIKE TAMIR RICE AND SAY HE IS PLAYING
WITH A TOY GUN THAT LOOK LIKE A BROKEN SO HE DESERVED TO DIE OR
THE PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT MICHAEL BROWN ARE A BUNCH OF OTHER
PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOT AND KILLED BY COPS AND MENTION THINGS LIKE,
HE SMOKED POT ONCE IN HIS LIFE OR TWICE IN HIS LIFE.
HE
DESERVED IT.
WE GET THAT ALL THE TIME SO SPEAKING ILL OF THE
DEAD IS AN AMERICAN PASTIME AT THIS POINT.
I'M NOT BUYING THAT.
THAT IS A GREAT POINT AND I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IN THAT
CONTEXT.
ANYONE WHO DID NOT SPEAK OF ILL OF MICHAEL BROWN
HER TRIP ON MARTIN MAYBE HAS A LEG TO STAND ON.
ALL OF THOSE
COMMENTERS, NONE OF THEM SPOKE ILL OF ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO
WERE SHOT BY COPS?
PLEASE.
THIS IS SELECTIVE, YOU CAN SPEAK OF THE DEAD IF THEY
ARE THE OTHERS, IF THEY ARE BLACK, IF THEY ARE PROGRESSIVES,
ANYONE THAT YOU DON'T ASSOCIATE WITH BUT IF IT IS YOUR PEOPLE,
HOW DARE YOU, BY THE WAY, ONE OF THE REASONS EVERYONE IS
OUTRAGEOUS BECAUSE BARBARA BUSH IS PART OF THE CLUB.
SHE WAS
FOR THE CLUBS EVERYONE KNEW HER AND EVERYONE ON TV WAS LIKE I DO
DECLARE, BARBARA BUSH WAS SUCH A LOVELY PERSON.
NO, SHE WASN'T
THAT SHE WAS GENERALLY MEAN-SPIRITED.
I WILL GIVE YOU
THE QUOTES TO PRIVETTE.
NO, I WILL GIVE THE QUOTES RIGHT NOW
AND THEN WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY'S REACTIONS.
WHEN
ASKED ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR, THE ONE THAT THE PROFESSOR HERE
ALLUDED TO, SHE SAID WHY SHOULD WE HEAR ABOUT BODY BAGS AND
DEATHS?
IT IS NOT RELEVANT.
SO WHY SHOULD I WASTE MY BEAUTIFUL MIND ON SOMETHING
LIKE THAT?
I WOULD ARGUE THAT SOMEONE WHO WOULD MAKE A STATEMENT
LIKE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND.
HER SON LAUNCHED THE INVASION OF IRAQ.
THERE ARE DIFFERING
NUMBERS BUT THEY ARE ALL AT A MINIMUM IN THE HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, AS HIGH AS ONE AND HALF MILLION
CIVILIANS KILLED AND BARBARA BUSH, WHEN ASKED, YOUR SON DID
THIS THING AND IT WOUND UP GETTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
KILLED, HER ANSWER BASICALLY WAS, THEY WEREN'T ME, WHERE
THEY?
I AM STILL RICH AND POWERFUL, I STILL GO TO THE SAME COCKTAIL
PARTIES WITH ALL THE PEOPLE ON TV AND THE POLITICIANS.
WE'RE
STILL LIVING A GRAND LIFE, IT DID NOT BOTHER MY BEAUTIFUL MIND
AT
ALL THAT YOUR FAMILY WAS MURDERED.
IT DID NOT BOTHER ME
AT ALL, MY SON DROPPED A BOMB ON THEM.
IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE SHE
IS SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD.
INTERESTING.
SO THEN THERE WAS THE INFAMOUS QUOTE IN REGARD TO SOME
OF THE REFUGEES AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA.
LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC 75.
SHE DID NOT CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE AT ALL.
YOU WANT TO TALK
ABOUT PRIVILEGED, ELITE, SPOILED PERSON WHO COULD NOT CARE
LESS AND HAD NO EMPATHY.
I'M SORRY, AM I SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD?
ON THE DAY SHE DIED, WE DID NOT DO IT AND I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING
ABOUT IT, BUT NOW YOU WERE GOING TO GO AND TRY TO TAKE SOMEONE'S
TENURE AWAY BECAUSE THEY ARE SAYING THINGS THAT IF THEY HAD
SAID THEM A DAY AGO, YOU WOULD'VE HAD A DEBATE OVER IT
BUT NOBODY WOULD'VE GOTTEN FIRED.
NOW YOUR BS RULED THAT
YOU APPLY ONLY FOR YOUR FRIENDS AND ONLY PEOPLE ON YOUR
POLITICAL SIDE OF THE AISLE SPEAKING OLD THE DEAD, NOW
LISTEN SHE IS A MONSTER.
NO, BARBARA BUSH IS THAT I DO NOT
CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE, AND NO ONCE ABOUT THEIR MY BEAUTIFUL
MIND WITH THE MOTIVES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD, I WOULD ARGUE SAID
FAR, FAR WORSE THAN THIS PROFESSOR.
I WOULD NOT
PERSONALLY HANDLE THE TWEETS THE WAY SHE DID, BUT JUST BECAUSE I
DID NOT LIKE THAT TONE DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM GOING TO ADVOCATE
FOR HER GETTING FIRED.
I HAVE A LOT OF PRIDE IN THE CSU SYSTEM
AND IF SHE LOSES HER TENURE GETS FIRED I WILL FEEL A LOT OF SHAME
BECAUSE SHE HAS A CREATIVE WRITING PROFESSOR THAT THE
STUDENTS LOVE AND SHE DID NOT LIE ABOUT ANYTHING ON TWITTER.
SHE TWEETED SOMETHING DURING HER PRIVATE TIME.
SHE DID NOT SAY
THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CLASSROOM AND SO YOU GET TO
DISAGREE WITH HER.
IF YOU LOVE TO BARBARA BUSH AND YOU DIDN'T
LIKE HER TONE, YOU CAN DISAGREE WITH HER, I GET IT.
BUT TRYING
TO GET HER FIRED IS ESPECIALLY HYPOCRITICAL WHEN THE
CONVERSATION INVOLVING UNIVERSITIES RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT
FREE SPEECH.
ANYTIME YOU HEAR ABOUT UNIVERSITIES THESE DAYS IT
IS CONSERVATIVES LOSING THEIR MIND BECAUSE THEY THINK FREE
SPEECH IS BEING VIOLATED ON CAMPUSES.
THIS IS A PUBLICLY
FUNDED, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AND SO I REALLY HOPE THAT THE
ADMINISTRATORS DON'T BECOME COMPLETE COWARDS AND TURN THEIR
BACKS ON THIS PROFESSOR BECAUSE THERE IS ALL THIS PRESSURE TO
FIRE HER.
LET'S GO TO WHAT THE INITIAL RESPONSE WAS FROM THE
UNIVERSITY.
GRAPHIC 72.
I'M SURE THERE WAS A LOT OF
PRESSURE TO GO AFTER HER IN A
MORE AGGRESSIVE WAY, AND SO:
IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER OR NOT
THEY ARE GOING TO FIRE HER, BUT
THEY ARE DOING SO MUCH DAMAGE CONTROL, IT IS A LITTLE
LAUGHABLE.
UNIVERSITIES TWITTER ACCOUNT ALSO TWEETED THAT THEY
ARE FLYING THE FLAG AT HALF STAFF IN MEMBER MEMORY OF FORMER
FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH.
I'M FINE WITH THAT, THEY WANT TO DO
THAT, I'M GLAD THEY'RE DOING IT BUT IT JUST SEEMED LIKE A LOT OF
DAMAGE CONTROL FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS CONTROVERSY.
THE, THAT IS
MOST DAMNING IS GRAPHIC 70.
NO, THAT IS NOT BEYOND FREE-SPEECH.
FREE SPEECH IS NOT MEANT TO PROTECT INOFFENSIVE SPEECH.
NOBODY IS EVER GOING TO SAY YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY HAPPY
BIRTHDAY.
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY HAVE A NICE DAY.
THAT IS
NOT OFFENSIVE TO ANYONE.
THE POINT OF FREE SPEECH AND TENURE
IS TO PROTECT POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE SPEECH SO YOU DO NOT
UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR JOB.
LUCKILY
BEN SHAPIRO IS ON THE CASE HERE, HE IS LEADING PROTESTER PERFECT
PROTECT THE PROFESSOR BECAUSE HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS CARE SO MUCH
ABOUT FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS AND CROWDER IS THERE AND THEY'RE
LIKE GO LET'S GO, WE LOVE FREE-SPEECH, RIGHT?
OH NO, THEY'RE NOT LEADING THAT PROTEST?
THAT IS SO WEIRD.
I THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE FREE-SPEECH
ADVOCATES.
LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING.
IS IT OFFENSIVE TO HAVE SOMEONE
LIKE
ANN COULTER ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS WHO HAS ESSENTIALLY SAID THAT
IMMIGRANTS WHO TRY TO CROSS THE BORDER AND IN LATER GET RAPED BY
OUR BORDER PATROL AGENTS PROBABLY DESERVED IT BECAUSE
THEY TRIED TO CROSS INTO THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY.
IS THAT OKAY?
WE HAVE FOUGHT FOR THAT TYPE OF SPEECH TO STILL OCCUR ON
PUBLIC CAMPUSES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH, SO
WHETHER IT COMES TO BEN SHAPIRO OR ANN COULTER, LET THEM SPEAK.
LET THEM DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO, JUST DON'T SHOW UP
TO THEIR SPEECHES SHOW THEM HOW UNPOPULAR THEIR IDEAS ARE
BUT THEY WOULD NEVER DO THE SAME FOR A PROFESSOR LIKE THIS.
SPARE US YOUR CROCODILE TEARS ABOUT FREE SPEECH WHEN THE
MINUTE YOU ARE OFFENDED, WHAT YOU NEED?
CONSERVATIVES, WHAT YOU NEED?
YOU NEED A SAFE SPACE, RIGHT?
BECAUSE YOU ARE A SPECIAL LITTLE SNOWFLAKE WHO GOT TRIGGERED
ABOUT COMMENTS ABOUT BARBARA BUSH.
LET'S CALL IT WHAT IT IS
AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU ARE A STUDENT AT FRESNO STATE, UNDER
NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU LET HER GET FIRED.
YOU SHOULD DO
PROTESTS ON TOP OF PROTEST TO PROTECT HER RIGHTS TO SAY
THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY TRUE ABOUT BARBARA BUSH AND
DON'T LET THESE COWARDS SAY IF IT IS OFFENSIVE, THEN I DO
NOT KNOW IF IT IS FREE SPEECH OR IF YOUR TENURE IS PROTECTED.
OF COURSE IT IS, THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF TENURE.