Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Montgomery College offering taxpayer-funded "basket of deplorables" course this fall

Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard justified her expensive, taxpayer-funded security detail by saying she needed protection as someone who will take controversial political stands. Pollard is delivering on that promise in the college's Fall 2017 course catalog. A "new" offering, "Right Wing Movements Today," has a course description that falsely claims that Americans to the right of the political spectrum embrace "political violence and totalitarian models."

I've seen a lot of course descriptions, but this has to take the cake as the most intellectually-shallow and biased yet. It is spreading "fake news" as history, and smearing about half of the country in the process. The reality is that the only victim of physical political violence in Montgomery County was a Donald Trump supporter, and that 99% of the national violence during and after the 2016 election was carried out by left-wing groups, led by the ultra-violent Antifa. Yet, there is no course offering this fall on the "left-wing embrace of violence."

Perhaps the worst thing we can do in these fractious times is to simply cut off debate and dialogue with those we disagree with. Even worse is to base your arguments on fictitious lies. Worst of all is using a taxpayer-funded platform to do it.

This course is reminiscent of the attempts by the Montgomery County Council to create an atmosphere of fear and hate after last November's election. That directly led to violence against a Richard Montgomery High School student. "LL 177" is spreading its own brand of hate, at taxpayer expense. And by incorrectly teaching students that one side of the political spectrum is "violent," the course helps to dehumanize those Americans, which actually facilitates and encourages more left-wing violence of the sort we've seen in Berkeley, Chicago and elsewhere. This is not productive or constructive in any way. The professor may not agree with their positions or ideas, but right wing groups ranging from Republicans to the "alt-right" do not "embrace violence." Teaching students otherwise is morally bankrupt.

11 comments:

  1. Complains about "fake news" then pull this gem out of his ass: "99% of the national violence during and after the 2016 election was carried out by left-wing groups."

    The course description reads fine. If you're insulted by it then you're - what do you people call them - a "snowflake?"

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  2. "Perhaps the worst thing we can do in these fractious times is to simply cut off debate and dialogue with those we disagree with. Even worse is to base your arguments on fictitious lies. Worst of all is using a taxpayer-funded platform to do it."

    Agreed.

    We must defeat Robert Dyer again in 2018.

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    1. 1:23: Poll watchers will be watching for your illegal "voters" in 2018, Helpless Hans.

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  3. Dyer, please go back to reading "signage" and watching paint dry.

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  4. http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-troll-prank-antifa-jesse-watters-fox-news-2017-7

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  5. Dude, you need to re-read the course description more carefully if you're going to write an entire blog entry about it. Nowhere in that description does it directly state or even imply that the AMERICAN right-wing movements that they will be discussing are totalitarian or violent. The class is clearly discussing right-wing movements from around the world, some of which most definitely are totalitarian and violent.
    Chill.

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    1. The description even clearly says "The focus will range from the United State and Europe to Turkey and Latin America," but Dyer is too busy crying to notice.

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    2. 10:51: All are lumped in together in the course description. Even very few of the new international right-wing movements are advocating violence. They are mostly just nationalist.

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  6. This isn't a real course. It's part of "Lifelong Learning Institute" - i.e. enrichment for retirees and people with nothing better to do. Let's look at some of the other offerings - LLI141:Sugarloaf: The Singular History of a Singular Mountain (Fall 2017), LLI942:Bridge for Beginners (Fall 2017), and LLI165:Declutter Your Life and Space (Fall 2017). It's hardly Quantum Mechanics.

    Speaking of which, Dyer should teach some classes like "Bloggin' from the Basement: Now for Fun and Profit!" and "Creepingly Cyberstalking Hans Riemer."

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    1. 7:48: I'm not experienced in blogging from basements, but I stand ready to teach courses like "Montgomery County: The New Bell, California;" "'Helpless' Hans Riemer's Wall Street Money Machine;" "When Hans Riemer Helped Billionaire Mitch Rales Stash $400 Million to Avoid Federal Taxes;" and so many more!

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    2. Bell, CA? You'll grasp onto anything no matter how different the circumstances are. To compare to Montgomery County shows your total lack of facts and circumstances and reeks of defamation.

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