Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Letters to a Young Progressive: How To Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don’t Understand.The following column is comprised of excerpts taken from my first lectures on the first day of classes this semester at UNC-Wilmington.
Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you areconfused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.
Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door. In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.
Remember when I told you you’d like Wilmington?
“Mike Adams is a criminology professor…”
Or as Malkia Cyril might say, “Black Studies professor”.
Well said by this Prof. I bet he pulled a few students back to common sense with his introduction. Need more like him in schools and everywhere else.
It’s been so long since I’ve read such blunt and obvious truth outside of a leather binding that it’s hard to read it without subconsciously inserting King James word formations.
e.g. – Gather up your things and get thee out.
Wow! Absolutely fucking brilliant!
I would have loved to see the faces on the snowflakes by the time he finished that ‘lecture’!
Another thing to like about Mike is that he uses part of his salary to buy more guns. I’m sure it drives the university progs to distraction.
When I attended UNCW, Charlie Daniels was a regular for the students! penny beer and Charlie Daniels! Life was good!
I read every column he wrote during about a 2 year period. Funny, biting and truth. I bought and read two of his books _Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel_ and _Feminists Say the Darndest Things_.
Followed one of his 5 part columns on a doctoral candidate who attended the same university that I was attending – same professional goal as I had, and how that university screwed him over because he had values and his overseers didn’t.
Did he still have his whole finger way back then? Asking for a friend.
Didn’t know he was digitly impaired. Maybe it was the penny Draught?
BTW, was the Marshal Tucker band also from Leland?
Awesome. Thank you for posting it. Having my 2 kids in college read it, and the 3 who are not. Youngest is 9, i roll like that 🙂
Love Mike Adams… became familiar with him on Beck’s show years ago. Profound wisdom and so needed today.
YEAH, BABY!!!
I want to know if he got a standing O. I nearly stood just reading it at home.
Marshall Tucker was a blind piano tuner in Spartanburg, SC.
The band is from Spartanburg.