A Piece of Human Garbage

That's what I call UT Journalisms prof Robert Jensen, whose latest screed has been dismantled here. Jensen was one of the first to point the finger of blame at the US after 9/11, and I attended a "peace rally" on the UT campus just days after 9/11 and was disgusted to hear the student body president, the chancellor and a number of others use that platform to speak against any armed response to 9/11. Little concern for the victims, ultimate concern for the perpetrators.

Jensen used a bullhorn at the end of the rally to start a little anti-Americanism, although a friend and I chased him off with some pointed questions, prompting a number of idiot students to try to take us on intellectually about the Middle East. Sadly they were unable to contribute anything meaningful to the discussion and were run off as well. I suppose it was the best they could do with people like Jensen in charge of filling their little heads with knowledge, but my friend and I were shocked at the ignorance and kneejerk anti-Americanism so many of them parrotted. Sickened, really.

People like Jensen should be horsewhipped in the street for being so intellectually inadequate and advocating the defeat of the United States in war, and instead they write columns for US papers for pay, run around the country protesting the war and the administration, and spend little if any time on University business. He will never suffer for his views, but conservatives all over the country are discriminated against on campuses and in newsrooms daily. Some kind of weird anti-justice at work there, I guess.

If Jensen were anything but the typical gaunt, creepy Marxist with tiny commie glasses and a haunted look about him, I'd probably give him at least one good punch in the face, but it would probably kill him, and if it didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life in court wishing it had. I suppose violence is not the answer, despite the fact that pain has a way of clearing the mind. And Jensen certainly needs mind-clearing. His reasoning is the truly offensive part of it all, and my letter to the UT journalism department soon after his post-9/11 antics addressed the fact that what was offensive about it from a UT standpoint was not the political stuff, or even the anti-Americanism. It was the ignorance and anti-intellectualism inherent in his arguments, and the failure to build a convincing logical case for anything at all. Like so many liberals, Jensen has such strong feelings that he just knows he's right, if not why. That's not good enough.