Timothy Birdnow

Here we go!

"In late October, William V. Harris, a noted professor of Greco-Roman history at Columbia University, stepped down from his 50-year teaching career at the Ivy League school. His departure came amid accusations in a federal lawsuit that he'd groped a graduate student and pressured her for sex.

Around the same time, officials at Dartmouth College and the New Hampshire attorney general’s office announced that three tenured professors in the school's psychological and brain sciences department were targets of a criminal investigation into "sexual misconduct” charges dating back to 2002."

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"In the wake of numerous allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct leveled at Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and a multitude of other news and media personalities, academics from Boston to Berkeley have come under increasing scrutiny for their own dalliances and inappropriate behavior toward students and underlings."

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Let me interpret this for you. This is the tool whereby the Left will get rid of any residual Conservatives in Academia and close down departments that are not sufficiently Progressive. Please note the first professor mentioned in paragraph one; a Greco-Roman historian aka a classicist. The Left does not like Classicissts, in fact wants to eliminate all Western thought from the Universities. This fellow could not be eliminated, because of tenure, so somebody found a crackerjack way to get rid of him. And I'll bet they are going to close that particular department.

This is, as I have been predicting, a tool to shut the mouths of any and everyone who does not enthusiastically support the Leftist Locust march through history.

The article continues:

"A 2015 study by the Association of American Universities at 27 elite private and public research universities found that about 1 in 10 female graduate students have been sexually harassed by a faculty member. Surveying 221 reported cases at 210 institutions, a forthcoming study in the Utah Law Review found that alleged academic abusers were more often accused of physical harassment than verbal, and that 53 percent of the cases surveyed involved serial harassers."

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I will bet you nearly all of those cases involve liberal professors (it's not that much of a risk for me to makes such a claim as most professors are liberal) but this isn't who is going to be targeted, I assure you. America is not undergoing some moral renaissance; the mainstream media has been promoting this, and the Progressives have been pushing this for years.Remember, it was Obama who changed the Title IX rules to get colleges to create star chambers where sex allegations are treated as true unless the accused can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt otherwise. This is a strategy long in the making.

And it was employed for decades. Remember Anita Hill? The Left tried an 11th hour smear of Clarence Thomas, as straight a straight arrow as you will find. And that was over a quarter of a century ago. Remember how they took out Herman Cain the same way? The Left has historically used such sleaze in a political fashion, but they are about to institutionalize this strategy.

I know it's enjoyable watching liberals swallowed by the crocodile they themselves created, but such collateral damage is soon to end, with the ultimate target being us. Get ready; this is going to continue to metastasize.

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