Wednesday, July 15, 2015

professor says Scott Walker and Hitler share so many similarities it's terrifying

"My Grandfather, a psychologist," halt.

That again. 

"Just walked me through similarities between Walker and Hitler," so many it's terrifying. 

I came to this site for a list of terrifying similarities between Walker and Hitler, she said there are so many, there can be no satisfaction without such a list of terrifying things. Wouldn't you like to see that? For fun?

This turns out a tweet from educational policies professor Sara Goldrich-Rab two weeks ago.

She also communicated other uncharitable things about Walker through tweets. She defends her comments fallaciously relying on appeal to authority, and questionable authority at that such as psychologists. "If you reread the tweet, (why would we? For parsing?) you will see that I stated that an expert in the field -- a psychoanalyst  (well then!) with decades of experience (that's two) -- compared the 'psychological characteristics' of the two individuals and I was struck by his analysis.

No list. 

Not even the original list that inspired her thinking, she just refers to it without producing it. 

No list at the College Fix either. The College Fix reached out to the professor to explain herself. We are to note that she takes time from her unpaid vacation to respond. She's confident readers can see the difference between a comparison of psychoanalytical evaluations between an historic despot and a modern governor/presidential candidate, and a comparison between two whole individuals. Surely. She's also confident we will note the tweet is not a "reaction" to any specific event and so does not fit the College Fix's narrative.

Whatever she imagines that to be, that she's reactionary. 

The whole thing seems absurd because of "tweets" but this is the professor's platform to the whole world, to whomever will pay attention.  She is angry about Walker attacking tenure and she said so. In her view it robs Wisconsin.

She also suggested that Walker would fire her to make an example. Fearing that, and saying that suggests that is what she would certainly do. Her tweets indicate she might be a bit high strung for parenting.

"You should hear my kids, trying to figure out what moving means. Walker is driving them out of their home state. He took mom's job."

A vast dark chasm of sympathy-void open and swallowed me just now, I survey the rock walls descending everything is dark gray, hard and falling away. But I do feel pangs of sorrow for those innocent children growing up with such an entitled and nervous woman controlling and in need of her hook and umbilical into the system she knows so well. A parasite in desperate need of a willing uncomplaining host.

She said her colleagues are looking around too. Like that's a bad thing. 

"[Legislators] had literally shattered their employees and students and they stand up and say 'thank you.' It's cowardly. We're the laughingstock of the nation." 

Also, Walker doesn't even have a college degree. "My five-year old busted out, 'Walker needs to go to college and get some more knowledge.' Whoa. She's way ahead."  

Yes, professor, with your help and your genes she's way ahead. 

23 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Funny - I see similarities with the modern left and Hitler.

1. Jew hate/Israel hate - check
2. national socialists - check
3. Overwhelming desire to use force to shut down all dissenting opinions - check

Amartel said...

It's great that Scott Walker is driving this unthinking moron out of the teaching business. She will no longer prey upon innocent children other than her own.
THANKS, SCOTT WALKER!

Amartel said...

This professor and Hitler share so many similarities it's terrifying. If you question this conclusion, I will let you know, sir, that I am taking time from my busy not working at the moment schedule to refer you to the fact that I took several psych classes in college. So there, haterz.

Leland said...

The 5 year old is ignorant. Lack of degree does not mean lack of college education. Walker has accomplished far more than the 5 year olds parent. Academics is easy, real world is hard. That's why so many have college degrees and can't get commensurate jobs. The professor should try educating themselves and their own child before spouting ignorance.

William said...

For the left evil is a shaky concept. Too fraught with value judgments, many of of them rooted in patriarchal western jvalues. Better to go with neurosis. That expresses disapproval of a moral flaw in a non religious way......She's a snobbish woman and probably has lots of problems on her own.

edutcher said...

I can come up with a lot more similarities with Little Zero and Dolf.

Wanna start with delusions of godhood?

KCFleming said...

"Sara Youcha Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"

Looks like Meade in drag.
"Call me Sara."
NTTAWWT.

KCFleming said...

Meade/Sara

bagoh20 said...

She just isn't smart enough to see the differences between the two men. It's not real hard. It's pretty famous history - about as famous as history gets. I don't have a college degree either, but even a rube like me knows better. Maybe she was sleeping during that class, or maybe she was out protesting against free speech... like they do.

The GOP may be the "stupid party", but the lefties are definitely the stupid voters. If you like your gullibility, you can keep your gullibility.

Wasn't it the Hitler Youth who said "We are the ones we have been waiting for"? We'll it sure sounds like them.

KCFleming said...

In Measde/Sara's Twitter, she points to this list:


Explaining why Scott Walker is a fascist

KCFleming said...

What's funny is the blog it's posted on has moderated comments.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Fascism, to the left, is "every bad thing I can think of."

Silly.

Fascism means government control of all private industry.

bagoh20 said...

I wish she wasn't just a nobody, because criticism like that can lift a man's gravitas. It's great that the left fears him this much, but they need to get at it with some of those celebrity a-holes like Whoopi or Susan Sarandon or "I'm Matt Damon!" If they hate you, then you know you're right.

KCFleming said...

"Fascism means government control of all private industry."

For the Left, the meaning of words is temporary and capricious.
Marriage, Gender, Fascism, etc.

Like Humpty Dumpty, words mean just what they choose them to mean — neither more nor less.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I stood behind a teenage boy (high school age) in line at the grocers. The back of his t-shirt said:

Fascism: (& it was a long list traveling all the way down to the bottom of his shirt.
The list was a list of 'all bad things')

"the rise of sexism" was one on the list that made me want to laugh and cry.
(that's code for - support Hillary, or else.)

Leland said...

One fix April, not private industry, because the control means it is no longer private. But that's really the thing about Fascism, it is Communism except it pretends the industry is still private. That's why today's liberal is really more Fascist than Communist, but the result is the same. The powerful and the connected get richer, the gap to poor is widened, and the middle class is obliterated.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...
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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Well that's true. It's centralized control of all industry, really. (thus the removal of the privately run part) and yes, this is a goal of the left. Not the right.

Amartel said...

State control of all industry, including the industry of individual people, including the speech and thoughts of individual people, is the goal of the left. The hall monitors are running the school and they have access to your grades and permanent file ....

The stereotypical use of the term "fascist," usually some campus radical protesting the imposition of a square and ungroovy requirement by a parent, teacher, or some other adult source of authority ("clothing is not optional," "occasional bathing would be welcome," etc.) had enough truthiness (control by authority) that it reverberated and stuck. Now it's a just a joke but the joke wiped the real meaning of the term.

Amartel said...

Control of language and meaning is yet another means to control individual people.

Rabel said...

Number 6 is extra especially truthy:

6. A Controlled Mass Media – While there isn’t formal state control of the mass media in Wisconsin, the corporate-controlled mass media in Wisconsin covers political news in an manner that is very biased in favor of Walker and regularly smears political opponents of Walker.

ampersand said...

I look forward to her future tweets of her breathtaking escape from Nazi Wisconsin hidden in an oxcart.

ampersand said...

The first sign you see when entering Wisconsin now says "Arbeit Macht Fett Frie Käse".

Chilling.