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An Example Of A Modern Day History Professor

Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:56 pm
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:56 pm
Andrew McKevitt is a history professor at LA Tech, my girlfriend told me about him after talking about the petition going around for the KA house at Tech to end Old South altogether. This is his incredibly liberal twitter and his bio on Tech's website.

Tech Website Bio

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Drew McKevitt joined the Department of History in 2012. He received the Ph.D. from Temple University in 2009. Before arriving at Louisiana Tech he served as the Hollybush Fellow in Cold War History at Rowan University and as a visiting assistant professor of history at Philadelphia University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of U.S. foreign relations, the postwar United States, modern Russia, and modern Japan.

Dr. McKevitt's research focuses on U.S. cultural relations in the postwar era. His current book manuscript, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of America, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, is a history of U.S.-Japan relations in the 1970s and 1980s told through the lens of consumerism in the United States. He was the recipient of the 2011 Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, which was awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for the year's best article in the field. The article, "'You Are Not Alone!' Anime and the Globalizing of America," published in the journal Diplomatic History, examines the local, national, and transnational cultural networks created by fans of Japanese animation in the 1970s and 1980s.


His Twitter Feed

Filled with gems like this.

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My take on a frat like KA is that we're all better off when the racists clearly identify themselves.


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This is a good petition and the comments demonstrate why North Louisiana remains culturally and economically stuck in the 19th century.


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Mansplaining from white men in Louisiana is a very special kind of mansplaining.


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There is no celebration of Robert E. Lee independent of a celebration of white supremacy.


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More seriously, Ailes was, along with Murdoch & Gingrich, one of top 3 people involved in most poisoning American society in last 30 years


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I have decided that this is the summer when I Read All the Vonnegut Things.


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Imagine if the black president complained about how the media treated him.


Those are a few.

I wonder how much actual history is being taught in his classes compared to how much he tries to spin it to make America look bad? Especially anybody that is a part of the right wing?
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 10:57 pm
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
76373 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:59 pm to
Probably Poliboard.

That being said, this one is gold.


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Imagine if the black president complained about how the media treated him.


He did complain multiple times.
Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
9335 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:59 pm to
Getting paid to espouse his political beliefs to a captive audience. Pretty good gig.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
148020 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:59 pm to
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my girlfriend told
pics?
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
35704 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:59 pm to
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Imagine if the black president complained about how the media treated him.


Like bitching about Fox News?

I must've gotten lucky. It seems like my two main history professors were pretty conservative.

I'm sure this is pretty much the norm for academia.
Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
15248 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:00 pm to
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Imagine if the black president complained about how the media treated him.
He should imagine being as color blind as they claim to be.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
41521 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:00 pm to
I'm more interested in his favorite anime
Posted by SouthernHog
Arkansas
Member since Jul 2016
6880 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:00 pm to
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served as the Hollybush Fellow



Sounds ghey AF
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
41796 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:02 pm to
What is "Old South"?

I might agree with him sounds stupid
Posted by anc
Member since Nov 2012
20333 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:04 pm to
I had two history professors at dear ole State.

A Reagan fan that knew more about the Civil War in Mississippi than any person alive.

and

A young guy working on his doctorate that left of Mao and idolized FDR and Clinton.

I learned a lot from the former. I just tried to get by without showing my views on the latter.
Posted by Minnesota Tiger
Member since Oct 2005
4414 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:05 pm to
While his topics of interest do not impress me, his resume does.
If your girlfriend does not like his ideas, then she is free to not take his classes. Perhaps she can find some right wing scholars to teach classes she enjoys.
Posted by Marco Esquandolas
Member since Jul 2013
11665 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:06 pm to
He's still mad KA didn't give him a bid...
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
28065 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:17 pm to
My girlfriend didn't need to take his classes as she wasn't getting a degree in that field.

She was a part of the SGA, and had to send out an email to the entire school about something that didn't really involve him and he posted it on his twitter page and was going on leftist rants about the email. Don't really remember what she said it was about but I asked her to pull up his twitter and wasn't really shocked about the stuff he was posting on there.

Yeah, his resume is great. But I'd rather take notes from somebody I knew wasn't gonna try to shite on America every chance he got.
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 11:20 pm
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161245 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:18 pm to
I need to write a book
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118227 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:24 pm to
They can't all be Karl Roider.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
87377 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:24 pm to
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Dr. McKevitt's research focuses on U.S. cultural relations in the postwar era. His current book manuscript, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of America, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, is a history of U.S.-Japan relations in the 1970s and 1980s told through the lens of consumerism in the United States.


So, long story short, this pussy is trying to get a book about Sony published.

Big fricking whoop.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
87377 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:25 pm to
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They can't all be Karl Roider.


Amen.

Nor Mark Carleton (RIP).
Nor Stan Hilton.
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118227 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:25 pm to
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I need to write a book




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tdeucen






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My First Beer of the Day, by tdeucen
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
34663 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:32 pm to
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Mansplaining

Die
This post was edited on 5/22/17 at 5:01 pm
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85187 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:36 pm to
The Left controls the Academy. They control popular culture. They control the legacy media and the television networks. They control Hollywood. They control social media. I could go on.

What they do not control is public opinion. So smug blowhards like this can condescend all they want about "racist" white frat boys, but what they can't do is win debates in the arena of ideas. And while asshats like this think they are being persuasive, they just don't realize that they are persuading people against the progressive Nanny State better than any anti- Statist ever could.

BTW, I can see this pointy- headed dickless little frick in my mind, having lived in Japan for two years. The skinny little dweeb on the train reading his manga and fantasizing about the girls and rubbing out to porn obsessively while all the Westerners on the " commerce side" -almost all of them frat guys- banged their way across Japan without apology or regret .
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