04 July 2015

America’s Stupidest College Professor? Hardly.

Professor Adam Kotsko is an American writer, theologian, religious scholar, and translator, working chiefly in the field of political theology.
The learned professor, besides channeling some European pseudo intellectuals, such as Žižek, is apparently a sucker for publicity. At his current post (Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago) in the minuscule college, beating the dead and festering horse of Žižek's "philosophy", prof Kotsko can hardly achieve any of that publicity. But there are ways, as the recent flare-up shows:
Dr. (and I use that title lightly) Adam Kotsko, a professor at Shimer College in Chicago, Illinois, thinks that all white people have been “complicit” in slavery, and should therefore “commit mass suicide” as reparation.
This statement, as expected, caused a wave of responses, the most obvious and frequent one having to do with the good prof serving as the first example for the proposed act of contrition.

Just to make sure this is not a singular outbreak of the prof Kotsko's thirst for fame, here is another example, from January:
On Tuesday, Kotsko boldly and immediately took to Twitter after masked Islamist fanatics massacred a dozen employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical website, for writing about Islam. Kotsko told the world that the horrifying terrorist attack was foreseeable because Charlie Hebdo is “a newspaper devoted to hate speech,” notes Campus Reform.

“It’s no more surprising that someone would attack a newspaper devoted to hate speech than that someone would beat up Westboro protestors,” he wrote.
Obviously irked by this provocative statement, Eric Owens, education editor of The Daily Caller, invented the headline partly used for this post.

But no, Eric, I beg to disagree. It is just the way of the good professor to signal to some bigger and greater academic institutions of USA (or Europe) that he is good and ready to be embraced by one of them. I bet the feelers of Berkeley, UCLA and other similar progressive outfits are already vibrating excitingly...

11 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Hey, kool. He's a publicity whore. Nah, it's not all white "people," Adam. It's all white "men." Can't be a Social Justice Warrior if you can't get the nomenclature correct. Sheesh. He looks "white" to me, or, at least, pink. When he is going to be first on the suicide bit and kill himself? And doing it on YouTube I hope.

Sennacherib said...

"This statement, as expected, caused a wave of responses, the most
obvious and frequent one having to do with the good prof serving as the
first example for the proposed act of contrition"
Judging from the picture and excerpts of his writing, I would say he has complete justification for going first.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Not before he gets a tenure in the Ivy League, I would venture a guess.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

No question, and I guess he could be helped along. However, professors of humanities (whatever it means) are not required to serve themselves as an example. Too bad. The curriculum should be amended, I suggest.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yes.

Dick Stanley said...

He was Jewish? I missed that part.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yep, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

BHCh said...

"Humanities". What a surprise. The world would be SO much better off if all "Social Sciences" departments were shut down. Anything that has a word "science" in the title, isn't.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Hm... I know a few people that will seek your scalp after this statement. But I am not telling...

Dick Stanley said...

Sounds like a long wait. I doubt Shimer College is even in their address books. Why, just last year, it was voted the worst place to study in America, according to your fav outlet The Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/06/shimer-college-illinois-worst-school-america

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, on the other hand it might explain why prof Kotsko is so eager to become famous. Who knows, they say that God helps those who help themselves or something in this vein, and who but an expert in theology would know this better than others?