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From Jonathan Turley’s blog:
July 15, 2015
… Students are seeking the termination of Marymount Manhattan Theater Arts Associate Professor Patricia Simon after she appeared to briefly fall asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. Simon denies the allegations but Marymount Manhattan student Caitlin Gagnon started a petition which features this picture and also accuses her of “ignoring … racist and sizeist actions and words of the vocal coaches under her jurisdiction.” The petition has roughly 2000 signatories.
It is an ironic twist on the woke movement where literally not being awake is now cause to be terminated.Professor Simon insists that the picture was a false image due to her bifocals and how she changed her angle to rest her eyes:
“I was not asleep as is implied at any point during the meeting,” she said, adding, “the photo used was taken without permission when I was looking down or briefly resting my Zoom weary eyes with my head tilted back which I must do in order to see my computer screen through my trifocal progressive lenses. I listened with my ears and heart the entire meeting.”
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Don’t ever be the first to stop clapping, eh?
A disturbing pattern of right wingers is the complaining of people being falsely accused of racism, of bias and being censored or fired for expressing their views.
All the while, theyignores the bigger stories, the ones with implications for the health and well-being of us all. The biggest one today, for me as a health care provider, is Trump’s attempt to control the facts about the pandemic to fit the campaign message. Some may die, especially the medically-vulnerable children with things like asthma, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart problems and other chronic health problems.
Speaking of norms, yesterday Trump held a campaign rally, disguised as a news conference, in the Rose Garden. No previous POTUS has EVER done that, an act that is more in line with totalitarian regimes than a democracy. What’s next? “Make America Great” banners on the iron fences around the White House, a Trump flag flying over Washington governmental businesses? But, I digress. yall is more worried about whether a woman fell asleep at a meeting or about some art curator being accused of racism.
Why does this give me flashbacks to attending Presbyterian Church as a small child?
Who stays awake during a sermon?
OT: Someone has posted “Greyhound” with Tom Hanks on YT. Get it before it disappears.
We are living in a dystopian novel co-authored by Eric Blair & Douglas Adams.
Try to pick up a first grade teaching credential or learn to code, granny, cuz you’re a goner. No amount of reasoning with these folks is going to satisfy them. They’ll only be happy with your head on a pole they’ll dance around… wearing banana aprons.
Again. You’re dead wood in Academia. You thought the purges would be limited to straight white male gentiles. But then they came for (((you.))) And now you’re just another honky chewed up and tossed off the wayside.
This almost makes the ordeal for the rest of us worthwhile. At any rate, it’s a really good laugh. …Your discomfort.
This Goldsteinite drifted off during the Five Minute Hate. Her facecrime revealed her doubleplusungood thoughtcrime. Such contempt for Ingsoc and Big Brother requires at the least a trip to Room 101 in the Ministry of Love.
Nice concern trolling but maybe try to be a little less transparent next time. MSM talking points don’t automatically become more persuasive when regurgitated in a comments section.
“No previous POTUS has EVER done that, an act that is more in line with totalitarian regimes than a democracy. ”
Lol, I think most of us would be overjoyed if Trump actually started living up to the “literally Hitler!” cries we’ve been hearing for the past three years.
But if she were sleeping, who could blame her? Listening to woke gobbledygook is only fun if you can make fun of it in real time. Otherwise, it has the effect of a droning fan on a hot summer evening. It sounds like, dare I say, white noise.
I don’t like movies about white people killing each other.
The revolution will be switched off when people with last names like Simon start being attacked.
Why hello there Mr. Shilly McShillsalot, are you feeling a bit of a tickle in the back of your throat? Perhaps the sniffles? Would you like some chicken soup?
No one thought to question Caitlin Gagnon’s mental stability when she took up a petition to get someone fired for falling asleep?
Not reprimanded or scolded…but fired. Something is very wrong with people like this. And something is also wrong with people who don’t tell them to f*ck off.
Who raised this generation of monsters?
What the “woke” crowd needs is a vacation:
The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
She was just acting!
One for Newsom:
Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
So you didn’t sign that cancel culture letter, I think is what you’ve come here to say. Thanks!
Three years ago we were warned that the man was a wannabe fascist. Now the same people bitch that he isn’t being fascist enough.
Ah well, as pitiful as it is, it’s another fine example of an undoubted lefttard getting zapped by another, perhaps more virtuous, lefttard. Gotta love it.
There are only about 2 thousand students at Marymount. They basically all signed the petition against this prof.
My niece went there for a visiting semester from Elon.
“No previous POTUS has EVER done that, an act that is more in line with totalitarian regimes than a democracy.”
My trollometer pegged this comment at a solid C-minus. Next time go heavier on the Agree and Amplify or else drop a /sarc tag at the bottom.
Whoever is paying you, is not getting their money’s worth.
I say we demand that Joe Biden sit through a six hour town hall on the evils of the white American culture. If he can last through a struggle session without flipping out or falling asleep, then God bless him, mabye the old crooked senile pervert is qualified for the job.
Better than that is a major Twitter hack. Loving this!
‘Bout time these guys stepped up and gave back to tha communitah!
Biden’s wondering “Did I do that?”
Yes, she is a particular monster. And almost certainly her parents are a*holes or they’d have read her the riot act when they found out about this.
But there’s a bigger lesson here: It is a really bad idea to pay any political attention to young women. (And young men are no great shakes either.)
Caitlin should be obsessed with her babies. Or baring that, obsessed with “boys” … which will lead to being obsessed by her babies.
Denied those healthy obsessions, Caitlin has this demented replacement obsession–healthy neither for society nor for her.
We’re got a long, long road back to sanity. But step one is flicking the off switch on the deeply felt histrionics of young women.
If she has tenure, then she can’t be terminated. “The modern conception of tenure in US higher education originated with the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.”
Academic freedom should permit a professor to rest her eyes for a moment during a lecture. Or am I wrong about that?
Completely off topic rebuttal:
I believed her and assumed a crazed student just screengrabbed an odd moment to woke-guard her teacher until that last line. Now I assume she did briefly doze off and was woke-guarded by her crazed student. It just reads too much like ‘I couldn’t have killed Richard, I love him more than my own children and mother!’
Another lesson learned, always record these mandatory Zoom calls.
Questioning if somebody, particularly a young woman, has a cluster B personality disorder is sexist. So we have an army of young women with septum piercings, bad tattoos, neon dyed or near shaved heads who we’re all supposed to completely trust the word of all the time.
The fact that the kind of things they claim happen to them or say they are is constantly inline with a diagnosis of a cluster B personality disorder is just a coincidence.
Are there any male students?
Not reprimanded or scolded…but fired. Something is very wrong with people like this.
It’s just a logical extension of stuff that happened over the last 30 years. In a way, Joe Sobran was the first target of modern cancel culture, and that was years ago. But the scalps keep on coming – Watson, Charles Murray, etc.
It’s AnotherDad’s minoritarianism taken just a little bit further.
“…ignoring… sizeist actions and words…” Let me guess… Caitlin is a chunkster who was denied the role of Fantine in Marymount’s recent production of ‘Les Miz’?
Dunno if you remember me from the Heartiste blog, but I used to make these same comments. I would always say that dogs, cats, horses, and “causes” are modern women’s replacement obsessions for the babies they’re not having.
I once worked at a government security job overnight with an older black guy named Joe who would regularly take naps on the job. Even though sleeping on the job is an automatic termination Joe was never fired. And he was caught napping numerous times. Joe had mastered a trick. Every time a supervisor caught Joe napping, Joe would quickly wake up and say “amen” and cross himself. It’s a funny and clever trick but one which could only work for a NAM.
You know, when Elvis Costello sang the great lines,
“I used to be disgusted,
But now I try to be amused,”
He was ALREADY riffing on a previous cliche. Wheels within wheels, man.
“There’s no stopping the cretins from hopping.”
–Thomas Friedman, I guess. Why not? There’s no copy editors left at the NYT copy desk, and Charles Blow is off having lunch with Sarah Jeong, so WGAF, right? I’m not even sure what that acronym means, but they change every day, so, WGBMKS?, right?
I think there would be a real market for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of Woke talks, meetings, and panel discussions.
Denny Meyer? Commenter to Ignore!
The would make a good comedy sketch: Joe Biden calling his youngest staffer to have him explain what Bitcoin is and how it works.
Eyes Wide Shut.
I used to hear the same thing said about older black employees of the airline I once for over a decade ago. It’s a good urban legend which probably has some truth to it.
Why did the angels want to wear his red shoes?
The Puritans had someone called the Tithingman who would take care of this sort of thing at Church. Maybe the ‘progressive’ SJW’s need someone like that for their…err..services and sermons.
Interesting article on the subject at the link by the way.
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/puritan-tithingman-powerful-men-new-england/
Probably not. He, she, or it, will only use the moniker a couple of times at most and then move onto next week’s nom de plume.
Good Lord!
One can only guess at the penalty for ‘inadvertently breaking wind’ in the presence of BLM Commissars. Like the ancient Nepali punishment for perpetrating the same in the presence of the monarch, likely it would involve publicly ‘ripping out the anus’ of the said profane and sacrilegious offender.
Unfortunately, that’s not the path we’re on just now. Agree about Step 1 though.
Give her a break guys, even her trifocals are progressive!
That’s what people with last names like Simon would like to believe. That’s how it’s worked in the past. But there comes a point when you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
For the same reason Nick Lowe thinks you’ve got to be cruel to be kind.
And for the same reason Don Van Vliet thinks he cannot go back to your Frownland.
She should have used Homer Simpson’s jury duty glasses:
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMwTUrQLGRVEosE
This is a real and growing phenomenon. While participating in videoconferences, academic colleagues feel the need to take great care how they behave when in the presence of the more sensitive members of the faculty.
Implicit rules of conduct include:
– never interrupt when they are speaking;
– always address all of the points they raise;
– never question the importance of their views;
– appear interested at all times in what they say;
– avoid involving them in things that matter;
– keep your real opinions to yourself and only share them with reliable colleagues.
Colleagues in Russia tell me, in all seriousness, that they adopted similar rules for survival during the Soviet period.
“How many fingers am I holding up, Karen?”
Favorite book? Why England Slept.
Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
She should demand the expulsion of the ageist and ableist students attacking her for her trifocals.
Not bad, but I’d go bigger. Maybe add three more stories to the White House so he can leave the lights on at night in a swastika pattern? I don’t know, could be too much. What do you think?
And often their “cause” is “animal rights” — dogs, cats and horses, so it’s a twofer … nuts like Loretta Swit
She’ll need to wash a few black students feet as repentance! What a shonda…
One of the bigger surprises for me as a parent has been the influence of peer group. Statistically, parents have very little environmental effect on their children, although they have a very large genetic effect. That is, children pay a lot more attention to their environment (physical environment availabe for exploration and other children, mainly) than they do to their parents or even to their schools (which primarily determine the “other children” influence). See: https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-How-DNA-Makes-Press/dp/0262039168/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1558041544&sr=8-1, see also: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Diversity-Biology-Gender-Class/dp/1538744015/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+bell+curve&qid=1594909185&s=books&sr=1-2 )
So it’s entirely possible, indeed unavoidable, that schools can convert children to beliefs their parents find abhorrent. Schools don’t have much influence on cognitive ability or even later socioeconomic status, but they can indoctrinate. Doesn’t always work for individuals, but it can work for groups (like young women) that prize conformity and emotion.
“From Tulsa and Selma to Minneapolice and NOOSECAR, as the agonizing scenes of Amerika’s racist past and present flashed across my mind, my eyes reflexively closed in horror.”
I’ve wondered who was the first victim of cancel culture and it wasn’t Joe Sobran, whom National Review fired in 1993. There was Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture to Nixon and Ford, who was fired in 1976 for telling a racial joke in front of the backstabbing rat John Dean, who told a reporter about it. And there’s Al Campanis, who was fired as the Dodger’s general manager in 1987 after a Nightline interview in which he said blacks “may not have some of the necessities to be, let’s say, a field manager, or, perhaps, a general manager” and that blacks are often poor swimmers “because they don’t have the buoyancy.” Jimmy the Greek was fired by CBS in 1988 for saying, “The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he’s been bred to be that way.”
I can’t help but think this was a state sponsored attack. A bit of a shot over the bow.
Our current situation makes all the centuries of white on white wars look daft unless one considers they could not foresee whitey surrendering to the world instead of conquering it.
Her first actual mistake was in apologizing for this nonsense.
Or she could have said she was just channeling RBG at any public event.
75% women.
I kept my video on during our Juneteenth zoom, but a lot of people don’t leave their video on.
The Butz joke was both crude and supernaturally stupid making it impossible to forget:
copied directly from Wiki
Unlike Sith Lord McCain who would regularly rant against his Vietnamese captors on his campaign bus with un-pc racialist language, Butz got no free pass from the press
And they should be warned this kind of story, this kind of petition, with their name attached, will have a long life on the Internet. If you were hiring, would you be put off by C.G.’s petition?
Well, if ot looks like a Karen, then it surely must go.
If I recall correctly, the actor Slim Pickens was on location for a film shoot and was asked if his accommodations were acceptable. He replied that the above was all he really asked for.
Thanks for the reminders.
I remember politicians Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms getting grief, while Robert Byrd got a pass.
“All the while, theyignores the bigger stories, the ones with implications for the health and well-being of us all.”
Thanks for NOTICING. But don’t expect our resident pattern recognizer to take note. He’s looking for the next story about the Negress who talks incessantly about her hair. Meanwhile…
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-hoping-iran-confrontation-before-november-election-sources-2020-7
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/trump-appointees-loyalty-interviews-364616
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/us-coronavirus-data-has-already-disappeared-after-trump-administration-shifted-control-from-cdc-to-hhs.html
The way things are going, they’ll soon be coming for the tenured.
Do you really expect our unhinged overlords to honor a contract?
They have already come after the guy at LegalInsurrection.com, so far with no success.
Some of us tend to fall asleep during presentations – even interesting ones – especially when the lights go down to show slides.
For those people it’s just too bad – they haven’t got the “right stuff” for the modern world.
One way to keep from going completely asleep during this crap is to hold a pen in your fist. Your hand will relax when you go under, the pen will drop, and you will wake up before you start snoring.
I think it’s very hard to keep people interested for more than about 30 minutes.
They are calling for her “termination” — getting fired from her job, or being executed?