re: Here's what LSU law professor said to get suspended

Law School professors are a different breed. They suffer from a great malady.....they are the only competent people in the world. Just ask them.

Abstract from one of his lectures

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ABSTRACT
In this paper, I will consider a paradox. On the one hand, many right-wing extremists have some crazy beliefs—for example, wildly implausible conspiracy theories like birtherism and election denial. On the other hand, most of these right-wing extremists are not crazy—i.e., (severely) mentally ill. They are generally functional, sufficiently in touch with reality, self-supporting, and decent to their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. How is this possible? What explains the disparity between right-wing extremists’ gullibility and their otherwise normal levels of intelligence, knowledge, and moral behavior?
I will argue that while three factors—religious indoctrination, political propaganda, and the deep-seated need for belonging—are an essential part of the solution to the “Crazy Paradox”, they are not the complete solution; all together, they still do not fully explain why otherwise rational people adopt such crazy beliefs. Plausible candidates for this missing factor include (in alphabetical order): economic anxiety, ethnocentrism, fear of the “other”, lack of intellectual curiosity, lack of intelligence, machismo, mental illness, peer pressure, racism, resentment (anti-elitism), a sense of powerlessness, strict upbringing, and tribalism. Still, while all of these contribute (in different measures) to right-wing extremism, they still do not add up to a complete explanation. The reason is that many others have been subject to most or all of the same influences and still do not share this worldview.
I propose that the missing factor, what most or all right-wing extremists share, is yet another deficiency that carries at least as much, if not more, explanatory power: weak minds. Weakness of mind makes right-wing extremists susceptible to some combination of the other deficiencies, but it is not on the same level. Weakness of mind underlies them all as cause to effect, as a disease to the symptoms. A close analogy to weakness of mind is weakness of will, which has intrigued philosophers all the way back to Plato. Like weakness of will, weakness of mind has significant explanatory power. Both help to explain in their own ways why sufficiently rational people do not always act rationally.

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If this was reversed

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Can you provide a link of a professor publicly shitting on Biden these last four years?

I mean, the odds of it ever being “reversed” is damn near zero.

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a student in his class reported to LSU that he had said “F*** Trump” and “F*** Landry”

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Unprofessional for a classroom setting, but not the biggest deal.

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I couldn’t believe that **** won. And those of you who like him I don’t give a. You can. Now, you’re already getting ready to say your evaluations. I don’t need his political commentary. No, you need my political commentary. And you, above all others, need my political. political commentary.”

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I'm filling in the blanks that he's saying he doesn't care if a student supported Trump or Landry. That's fine. But ranting about "put whatever on my evaluation" with a middle finger is...weird, and saying YOU need MY political opinion is unprofessional.

That's definitely immature. Not losing sleep over a paid suspension or similar. Bro needs to cool his can. The propoganda has him worked up.

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I was devastated

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The left keeps saying this shite. Good grief. Even if you hate Trump, just realize it’s not the end of the world. I don’t recall the right saying this after Biden won. There was a lot of bitching, rightfully so, but I don’t think we had a lot of people that were “devastated”.

TDS claims another liberal carcass

That lecture abstract is a nice summation of how pathetic upper academic research and “focus” has become. Go figure out what the Glossators did for fun.

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Pretty weak reason to fire someone. You can't say frick trump?

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He shouldn’t be fired. That is government overreach.

If a student voiced his opposition and said, frick Kamala, and was subsequently (and arbitrarily) failed, would you support that action?

This shitbag professor is (correctly) being defended, as he should be.

Ummmm…..uhhhh…..trying to making it through the whole video, but his verbal pauses are distracting

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I'm specifically responding to the guy talking about civil service rules. Not about the professor

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first of all, I’m not a guy

2nd of all, I come from a long line of state (Louisiana civil service statute article 10, section 9) and federal bureaucrats (hatch act) I worked at the parish level myself (they make it up as they go but are included under the state rules) - and it’s very common for people in the private sector to misinterpret what we (classified employees) can and cannot do when it comes to supporting political candidates.

Like i asked the man who asked if id put a Bobby jindal sign in my yard - ‘will you hire me once im fired?’

He said no, so I said no.

And please remember, as you have your panties in a bunch that my original post says:

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I hope any state employee that says that at their work place gets suspended or fired.

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Of course, having a political sign in my yard is in a gray area - but as a public servant - my address was readily available and the sign in my yard would be quite public. Not really worth losing my job over. Since when I was hired I was told I couldn’t do it.