Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Should this professor be fired?

https://youtu.be/Ip63yNKK5M0

mcmlx

I can't listen to that twice.
Nah. Don't fire her. Send her on an extended sabbatical to a country with "her kind of terrorism".

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

These people are running scared. Their world view is being challenged and the loss of the monopoly hold they have enjoyed for too long over the control of students' minds is something with which they can't deal. The word "University" means "universe of thought", but the last thing they want is to be forced to entertain alternative viewpoints. They have been too comfortable for too long indoctrinating students with Political Correctness using the arrogance of academia and the power they hold over grades as weapons to force compliance. It'll take one hell of a fight to get them to give up that power now - especially without the help of administrators. The legislative power of the purse may be the only way.

fullspinzoo

Pretty amazing. I actually attended this college back in the late 60's. And, of course, things were much more mellow back then. Kudos for this young man recording this pathetic excuse for a teacher, but this is what we're getting in most of the schools. Just a constant indoctrination into far Left liberal bulls**t. VP-elect Mike Pence is one of the most respected men around and by all indications he's doing a fantastic job. Olga Perez, Huh? I would love to run into her with my truck. lol I hope she gets fired. It might be interesting to follow this and see what really happens. if she gets more than a slap on the wrist, I'll be shocked. PS I wonder if there is anyway to put some pressure on the college to do the right thing?

JimMe

YOU and your ALUMNI can start by wielding your pocketbooks regarding donations to the college... Cutting-off Revenues works better and faster than anything else...

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

yes be fired this should never been discussed at all !!!!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Agree, and thanks to you and Liberty's Advocate for touching on the point of "indoctrination" - for me, this is the thing that needs to be exposed the most. However, this coming from a college in California, I can't see even a slap on the wrist happening. This is the kind of thing that needs to be exposed nationwide. The screwed up part of this is that the school is going after the student that video taped the incident. The young republicans involved have hired an attorney to protect themselves from any retribution the school might try to pursue; good luck to them.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN DISCUSSED AT ALL IT IS NOT THE TOPIC OF THE CLASS THEY SHOULD HAVE WALKED OUT ON HER & SAY BEFORE GOING YOU DONT TEACH WHAT IS SUPPOSE TO BE TAUGHT THEN WE WILL NOT RETURN & GET OUR MONEY BACK

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

I agree, but I'm pretty sure this student is part of a very small minority group of republicans in a California school. Sadly, pretty sure the majority of that class was nodding in agreement with what was being said. I hope the media continues to follow this story.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

i agree with your title or what ever you want to call it !!!! worried for our children ..i hope not to worry so much that we have trump in !!!! thank goodness hillary did not get in or we all would have had to worry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

fullspinzoo

I was saying to somebody today those exact words. What a total disaster that would have been. the closest thing to the end of the world. All these people that threatened to move, I would have. Switzerland or England. I have always said, "it would have been the last nail in the coffin".

snowbear37 Loc: MA.

The b***h should never have been hired!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Follow up (12/27/16)

For weeks now, nightmares have been jolting Olga Perez Stable Cox awake several hours before sunrise. Sometimes she’s able to fall back asleep, but more often she finds herself lying in the dark, body tossing and thoughts racing, until she’s reduced to tears. The morning offers fleeting distractions but no permanent relief — a cup of coffee, some Christmas decorating, maybe a phone call from concerned friends.

But the blinds in her home will remain closed, her door will remain locked and the formerly outgoing professor — a woman who has always thrived by connecting with others — will spend another day isolated by fear, weeping, too scared to walk outside. For as long as she has taught, Cox, a professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., has p***ed herself on speaking freely. Then a clip of her calling Donald Trump’s e******n “an act of terrorism” went v***l earlier this month, unleashing a wave of violent threats that forced her to end her semester early and flee her home in suburban Orange County.
Now she’s back home, but her life hasn’t returned to normal.

“Now, at 66, I’m paranoid,” Cox said. “It doesn’t feel good at all to be looking over my shoulder and wondering when an unfamiliar car pulls up across the street whether they’re going to take a picture of me or something worse — but that’s my life now. I feel like I’ve been attacked by a mob of people all across the country,” she added. “If they’re telling me over and over again that they want to shoot me in the face, how am I supposed to know if they’re going to do it or not?” The mob Cox refers to doesn’t wield pitchforks and torches but h**e-filled tweets, violent emails and threatening Facebook messages and phone calls. They are a virtual force with limited numbers but a seemingly unlimited supply of h**e that has proved just as frightening for the longtime academic. The video that sparked the h**e shows Cox standing in front of her students calling the president-elect a “w***e s*********t” and arguing that the country has “been assaulted.”
Cox, a psychology professor who teaches a class on human sexuality, referred to Vice President-elect Mike Pence as “one of the most anti-gay humans in the country.” She also told her students that the nation is as divided now as it was “in Civil War times.”

She noted that she was “relieved that we live in California.”
Cox’s comments were recorded by a conservative student in her class who found her statements offensive and decided to share the video with the Orange Coast College Republicans, according to Joshua Recalde-Martinez, a political science major and president of the campus Republican group. The video went v***l, and within days, the beloved professor — who is largely unknown beyond the campus where she has taught for more than two decades — was under fierce attack. Her inbox and voice mail were filled with hundreds of threatening messages that referred to her as “libtard,” “Marxist,” “nutcase,” “vile l*****t filth” and a “satanic cult member.”
“Keep your anti-white, man-hating, traditional-values-bashing, islamophile radical views to yourself!” an emailer named Xavier Israel Matamoros wrote. “You are an intolerant Marxist terrorist who causes division by bringing up your one-sided radical viewpoints and intimidating and shaming your non-conforming students. You are a sick, demented, evil b****!”

“You professors teach that W****s are immoral and contemptible if they don’t support White Genocide,” a woman named Jennifer wrote. “Anti-r****t is a code word for anti-White.”
“Go out in the middle of the football field, pull out a handgun, put it to your temple and shoot yourself,” Jim Ernst wrote. “Or better yet, douse yourself in gasoline and set yourself on fire.” As the threats worsened, she realized she was terrified of being left completely alone, consumed by the idea that around the next corner an unhinged person with a gun or a knife was waiting for her. Campus security began dropping by her classroom, and students started escorting Cox to class and sitting with her during office hours, a period when she would normally be by herself. “Every time I walked towards my office I was afraid it might have been broken into,” Cox said. “I feared that my home would be vandalized coming home from work each day. No matter what your rational side tells you, it’s still really frightening.” The harassment crested when Cox received an email from a man named Tim White that showed her home address, phone number and salary and threatened to spread the information “everywhere.” The email referred to Cox as a “libtard, Marxist, h**emonger, nutcase.” It was then, Cox said, that she could no longer stand to be in her home and decided to flee. The professor turned her final week of class this semester over to a substitute, but Cox said her ordeal continued after the controversial video appeared on the O’Reilly Factor. The host referred to her statements as “gibberish” and “slander” and labeled the professor part of “the totalitarian left.”
“That woman needs a psychologist,” he said.

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The daily must-reads, delivered to your inbox every morning. Cox said she has appealed to Costa Mesa Police and the FBI seeking help, but was told by both agencies that until her property is vandalized or she is physically attacked, there’s nothing law enforcement can do to help. Costa Mesa police did not respond to repeated requests for comment about Cox’s situation. In a statement emailed to The Washington Post, an FBI spokesman said the agency does not comment on information from individuals who claim to be victims of crime. “Any member of the public who feels they are being threatened may report it to the FBI, where we will attempt to determine veracity and whether an allegation falls within our purview,” the statement said. “If they feel their life is in immediate danger, they need to call 911.”

The Orange Coast College Republicans have filed a formal complaint with the school and hired an attorney, said Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the California Republican Party. Steel told the Orange County Register that Cox is using her power as a grade-determining instructor to “basically scare and shame students.” “It’s alarming,” he said. “It’s scaremongering. It’s irrational. It’s a rant. And it doesn’t belong in the classroom.”

Recalde-Martinez, the president of the campus Republican group, said OCC President Dennis Harkins never responded to the complaint, which demands that OCC “immediately take steps to correct Ms. Cox’s behavior and to ensure such incidents are avoided in the future.”
Recalde-Martinez said he has also received threats in the wake of the video’s release and that his group “doesn’t endorse bullying.”

“I don’t feel personally responsible for her situation,” he said. “I do condemn the individual who emailed photos of her house and published those. I think that’s unacceptable, and it’s not something I endorse at all.” “We don’t see those individuals as representative of what we’re trying to achieve, but we still would like accountability from the college.”
On the Orange Coast College campus, professor Olga Cox’s class on human sexuality has a reputation for being a uniquely open forum, one that functioned, at times, like a communal therapy session for hundreds of students at a time. Cox said she spends the first 20 minutes of each class answering questions submitted anonymously by students.

The questions usually involve sexuality and relationships, but in the days after Trump’s e******n, students began submitting political questions. Cox said many of her students — especially those who were Muslim, gay or had undocumented relatives — had begun telling her they were scared. Cox, who is gay, told her students she felt the same way. “I had an international Muslim student who told me he was afraid to leave his apartment,” she said. “I cried with him and I felt so bad because he was so alone and so scared.” When Cox stood in front of class to answer questions that day, she said her rhetoric was not meant to inflame, but to help reassure her students “that OCC was safe.”

“I read a message from the school president and put together a handout for coping with pain,” she said. “As a therapist, these are things I share with people who are depressed. I basically said, ‘Deal with your feelings and do something positive,’ and I was helping them cope with their fears — that was the intent.”

Cox said that if she could go back, she wouldn’t change her language. She said she believes the controversy surrounding her statements has more to do with her being intentionally targeted than the substance of her words. Her name has been added to a controversial website called “Professor Watchlist,” which lists the names of about 200 academics across the country accused by a conservative group of advancing “l*****t propaganda” and discriminating “against conservative students.”

“This is a very carefully planned plot to attack college professors that they don’t like and disagree with,” she said. “This is being done all around the country. It’s not my fault, and I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Rob Schneiderman, president of the Coast Federation of Educators/American Federation of Teachers Local 1911 that represents Cox, agrees that the problem is not what Cox said, but the fact that she was recorded, a violation of the student code of conduct that was expressly stated in the professor’s syllabus. Schneiderman said the short, edited clip fails to provide viewers with any context for Cox’s statements and could warrant punishment.

“She’s known as an open teacher,” he said. “There’s a petition going around on campus to nominate her for teacher of the year. She’s very well respected on campus, and this was an absolute violation.”

Schneiderman said the union plans to work with school officials to strengthen its free speech policies to keep students and professors safe from “Gestapo tactics.” Many professors on campus, he said, have vowed to resist any attempts by the campus Republicans to dictate classroom discourse.

“Students talk about sexual assault in Olga’s class,” he said. “There are students who have come out in the class. The thought of that going public is really scary.” He added that OCC has a large international student body, with students from countries where it may not be culturally acceptable to be seen in a human sexuality class. Publicizing the wrong student, he said, could have “serious consequences.”

As much as leaving her home frightens her, Cox said she plans to return to teaching at the end of January. Before then, she plans to marry her longtime partner and continue her healing process one day at a time.

She remains in the throes of a difficult struggle, she said, but that doesn’t mean she’ll quit her job. To quit, she said, would be a victory for the harassers. To find strength, the professor thinks about the beginning of her family’s American story.
“My parents left Cuba so we would not have this kind of harassment and so we would have access to free education,” she said. “They made sacrifices to bring us here, and I’m proud to be an American.”
“It’s just hard to believe that this is happening to me,” she added, “and if this is what America is turning into, we all need to be afraid.”

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Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

It was HER attacks on Trump and Pence - just words - that set off this whole chain of events. Now, her unfounded allegations of r****t bigotry, terrorism, etc., against the President-elect and Vice-President-elect - just words - are getting a response - also just words - from people who are more open minded than she is, willing to give the NEW President a chance.

We tolerated President Obama's anti-American policies, anti-Christian attitudes and actions, anti-Semitic posturing and r****t rhetoric for eight years - waiting and hoping that our Republican leaders or SOMEONE in EITHER party would an end to his attacks on our Constitution via Executive Orders and his "Department of Justice". Now, before Trump even assumes office, this weak-minded neo-N**i professor thinks SHE is the victim when she in actuality victimized everyone of her students in class with her classless, indefensible, off-subject political diatribe. It was a waste of their time and money, constitutes h**e speech and she should be reprimanded, forced to attend sensitivity training until either she changes her attitude or discontinues her intolerant behavior, or she should be FIRED. Let's see if she can take it as well as dish it out. She can teach, but can she learn?