Warning: Do not send your kids to Connecticut College…
…or they could end up writing and thinking like this.
Cliff Notes’ version of Connecticut College history department chair Catherine McNicol Stock’s supremely silly op-ed:
Sarah Palin is from the Pacific Northwest.
White supremacists live in the Pacific Northwest.
Connect the dots!
Read the whole piece and then check out the professor’s official bio. She’s got three degrees from Yale.
Egad. Cross that one off the list, too.
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Good morning, Michelle! The MSM just doesn’t quit. They are so worried that Palin threatens their dream of a socialist state (that, by the way, controls the press), that they keep coming up with all sorts of stories. They don’t need to prove anything; they just have to drop the “idea” and let it run.
These morons really, REALLY, need to get a life!
She’s a thoughtful lady, making this info available to the public:
And this:
Because suburban Connecticut is the best vantage point for studying “rural radicalism.”
Cathy is a one-note-Jenny. They say that if the only tool in your box is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. No doubt she has the ability to trace every one of her personal dislikes to “rural radicalism.”
i thought mocha sipping leftist live in the North West? you mean to tell me those people protesting the military in Oregon were white supremacists?? wow. Seattle must have a serious problem then, eh?
oh yeah, and white supremacists marry eskimos, like…everyday.
I’m sorry, Cathy. I might have been too rough on you. Almost certainly you were deeply traumatized by the arduous 48-mile trek from New Haven to New London that your family undertook when you were 25. I’m sure you lost many members of your wagon train to attacks by the Cherokees…and Grand Cherokees.
Thanks for catching that St. Louis Blue, I was going to raise that same issue as well. and… speaking as long-time local and native to the Pacific NW, let me offer a comment or two…
1. I grow increasingly incensed by those that write about our presumed failings with nary a quick visit here. To really know what the people are like, one must spend more than a week vacation in our larger cities with maybe a fast drive up the interstate to a natural destination du jour. I wonder how well Ms. McNicol-Stock REALLY knows my home turf (???)
2. I would hazard a guess that other parts of the country have greater concentrations of White Supremacists per capita than do we… Why no mention of other racial/ethnic supremacists?
They certainly do exist…
3. No emphasis on radicals hailing from urban environments? Oh no, they don’t exist – lol! /End Sarc
…Yawn…
Rumor has it that Cathy is planning a trip west this October…west of the Hudson.
We must not make the mistake in thinking that collectivists are stupid with examples such as these. This is a mistake that freedom-loving people have made throughout history.
From the lovers of Lenin to the brownshirts of Hitler, from the rice-bowlers for Mao to the army-green legions for Castro, their adversaries were lulled into complacency from the thought that “surely no one can be that stupid…”
The correct answer is, exactly, no one can be that stupid. Collectivists merely have other goals than individualists. In order to defeat individual freedom, they must make tactical arguments that confuse and cloud.
A couple of courses in her ‘american history’ major;
• The History of Hip Hop Music and Culture in Post-Industrial America, 1973-Present
• History of Witchcraft And Magic
• Latin American Immigration And Migration
TTo para-phrase our saviors wife”this discussion isn’t helping the children”.
OH NO! I live in Idaho. I better get one of those tanning beds like Sarah has and lay in it a long long time.
Hey, when you’ve only got about 50 days to try and win one for George Soros, you pull out all the stops.
The left is always clamoring for substance and policy, Yet they are the ones who continue to come up with the most inanane empty gossip!
The left is the party of smear and gossip!
The good news is We Got Sarah!
Sarah Got Game, We Got Sarah!
Funnt that the article starts in about domestic terrorism in an attempt to tie it to Palin, considering Obama is buddies with a convicted domestic terrorist. Oh but that’s different..
Funnt = Funny.. *sigh*
Connecticut College? Never heard of it.
That is exactly why we must fight harder now to defeat Obama. These last few days are critical.
The Obama machine knows how to cheat,
And they will!
We must be smarter and stronger. We must get out the vote.
It’s a good thing that we have Sarah Palin helping in that area.
If we overwhelm the ballet boxes their cheating will be nullified.
Sarah Got Game, We Got Sarah!
The university I attended was liberal, and I am a wacky conservative. Weak minds can be swayed and strong minds stay strong..
There is no evidence that Palin was ever affiliated with white-supremacist groups during her years in Idaho or at home in Alaska.
Really? That should have been your warning that you really didn’t have anything of substance to offer in that article. At least you were smart enough to concede that much.
Perhaps others have decided they do not want to live there. People there are self-sufficient and work hard for a living. Connecticut College was my mother’s alma mater. This is disgusting; worse than gossip and shows a complete lack of any intellectualism.
Pathetic. This is what passes for a scholarly op-ed piece?
It’s so pedestrian that a hockey mom could have written it…
Sarah Palin is from the Pacific Northwest.
White supremacists live in the Pacific Northwest.
Connect the dots!
Ooh boy a logic game. I wanna play:
Lobsters can be found off the coast of Maine.
Liberals come from the Atlantic Northeast.
Lobsters are liberal.
Wow, dot-connecting is fun! I want to go to Yale so I can learn to color in books (no white crayons allowed) and play connect-the-dots too.
Whoopeee logic is fun.
Let’s just get all the stupidity out in the open.
Well, here’s my contribution:
Obama is a politician from Chicago.
Politicians from Chicago are corrupt.
Therefore Obama is corrupt.
Hmm. Ya know, if I were supporting a politician from Chicago, I might want to be real cautious about geographic stereotyping my opponent.
New London, Ct. where Conn College is located, is an awful dump of a city. It is in eastern Connecticut, far from the tony suburbs of Fairfield County. My guess is that the professor never leaves the college campus, which is located on a hill isolated from the city of New London. It is located on a hill on a highway on the outskirts of New London. The students and faculty never interact with the community, other than to go to the local train station to get out of town. The local residents of New London are largely Black and Hispanic and you virtually never see an African-American or Hispanic face on the Conn College campus. That is probably why Professor McCarthy is so happy on this isolated patch of ground, where she need not be inconveniencied by having a Hispanic or African-American sit near hear as she enjoys her latte from the faculty dining room. If there is ever a more all-white campus than Conn College, I have not seen or heard of it.
Isn’t Alaska an exclave of the US which is not technically Pacific NW states?
More “connect the dots” fun:
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Tennessee.
Al Gore represented Tennessee.
Al Gore is a Klan member.
Or better yet:
Lan-Lan Wang was named acting chair of the dance department at Connecticut College.
Wang lied about her academic credentials.
All chairs at Connecticut College are liars.
This really is fun!!!
Talk about elitism. Impying that all rural areas in America harbour domestic terrorists? Yeah there are nut jobs in America, but to suggest Palin might be connected just because she lives in Alaska is ignorant. God help her students.
Dang! And here I thought we Southerners had the corner of the market on white supremacists! I’d better go marry another cousin so we can recapture the lead.
They try to paint normal christian folks as “dangerously radical.” If Christianity were a smaller percent of the population, they’d be making us wear armbands and putting us into camps. The hatred is raw and you can feel it from their writing. They turn all of their hatred around and try to put it on christians. It is really dangerous that there is such a market for this vile garbage.
Following on GoldwaterKnight’s comment re: Alaska with respect to the defintion of the ‘Pacific NW’…
With much due respect to the folks in Alaska (I have or had relatives there)… the locals here that I know, probably wouldn’t include Alaska if asked to list the states that comprise the ‘Pacific NW’.
In my own informal interactions with friends and family on this subject in the past, about 40% of the time responses would include OR and WA. About 50% of the time the list would be: OR, WA and ID. And, maybe about 10% would include OR, WA, ID and AK.
Also, for someone supposedly so scholarly-inclined as to rural discontent and terrorism, well, the McProfessor curiously overlooked this minor little incident in our past:
http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_rajneesh_colony_grows
(The story of the Rajneeshis – a ‘religious’ colony founded in RURAL Oregon, by a transplanted [emigrated] Indian. One of his ‘followers’ [which included many hundreds or thousands of locals] undertook the first successful bio-terror attack in the US).
Does the above example fit nicely the model of presumed ‘Rural White Terrorism’? I think not.
Oh, for her benefit, my state is pronounced ‘Ore-ee-gun’; not ‘Are-eh-gone’.
The most “white supremacists” I’ve seen in one location were in “The People’s Republic of” Boulder, Colorado.
You know … where Ward Churchill, and his band of leftist Indians hang out.
She should demand a refund from Harvard because none of them worked.
That is classic. Too funny. thanks.
That says it all!
Giving these clowns a forum is the best way to keep them marginalized. They have not a clue how insane and insulting they sound and they never will.
American Heritage Dictionary:
How’s this:
Grizzly bears can be found in Alaska
Sarah Palin lives in Alaska
Sahara Palin could be a grizzly bear.
She had never issued a statement so she should to clarify this. After all, do we want to risk having a grizzly bear a heartbeat away from the presidency?
Catherine McNicol Stock graduated from Yale with a B.A and teaches History.
George Bush graduated from Yale with a B.A degree in History.
Therefore Catherine Stock is actually George Bush.
I sent her an e-mail:
I didn’t want to be overly rude, but just let her know how idiotic she sounds to real people.
Selective blindness must be an awful thing to have to live with.
I can see Bill Ayres from my left eye AND my right eye.
Oh, I forgot, I live in flyover country so I can see LEFT on both sides of me.
The “lady” on drudge who was talking about a race war wrote from the same paper. What is wrong with this paper???!!!???
Gays live in Chicago.
Barry is from Chicago.
Barry is gay.
The irony of this piece of garbage (I’m referring to both the author and her article)… the irony is that Connecticut happens to be one of the most elitist states in the country. That doesn’t mean everyone from CT is an elitist, but they have a boat load of liberal elites up there. I know this as I spent a fair amount of time working in that state.
Anyway… using her logic… she is an elitist piece of crap.
Hey… even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Oh.. and read the comments to that article. Nearly all crucify her non-sense.
Sent her an email as well. No I did not insult her.
There are brown haired racists in Connecticut called cathrine, therefore this cathrine is also a racist.
See I can make stupid inaccurate insulting generalizations as well.
I just got my Masters from Wesleyan in CT and this sort of thinking is the norm. I had a teacher spend a week in a three week intensive for a class on “non-fiction narrative” (don’t ask) try to convince us that there was no such think as biological gender. At first I though she meant Gender roles which you could make a case are constructs of culture, but no she was saying there was no such thing as a man or a woman.
Rural radicals like John Smith, Ethan Allen, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Adams? Just curious as to her definitions. Apparently just living in an area without the correct racial mix as determined by her and her liberal cohorts is grounds to call someone a white radical.
While in other contexts her article might appear to be hyperbole, taken as a whole it is instead horse-squeeze.
Alright guys, the human race has obviously been doing something wrong for the last 10,000 years. There is no man or woman. We were supposed to divide like cells. So get to dividing!!!
Pile on and pile on quickly. Again, the days are counting down quickly so they are evidently calling out 4th and 5th string hacks to (even though there is not even remotely a story here) slam Gov. Palin. The days are ticking by and they have not yet come up with a”smoking gun” even though guns are always mentioned in just about every article that has her name in it. Desparation has a smell, and people it’s really starting to reek out there.
That smell may also be the hippy set who don’t do baths.
All the more reason WE need to teach our children how to think for themselves, and not expect “academia” to teach them this skill. It’s bad enough that too many times institutionalized learning involves telling others WHAT to think, as Harris noted. We need to arm ourselves and our children to discern this kind of nonsense and fight it.
Agreed – and what has Christianity ever done to warrant such disgust except to offer mankind a second chance at living a happier, healthier life?
DBNinKY #54 Ummm… make the Islamofascist so mad that they decided to kill anyone who doesn’t believe lile they do?
A little “guilt by association” journalism. However:
At very least, Palin’s husband “hated America” (literally) as recently as a few years ago.
I certainly hope she doesn’t lump Missouri in with a discussion regarding Michigan. Some consider all of our surrounding states the ‘midwest’. And whatever you do, don’t confuse Missouri with Kansas…
What a waste of college education; I wonder who paid for hers?
I really wish the left would actualy go read the AIP website. They do not favor seccesion at this point. Yet another baseless smear from the left. Obama has far greater links to left wing terrorists and a racist black liberation church than todd palin (who btw is NOT RUNNING FOR ANYTHING) has to seccesion. BTW he is native american so LGM does this mean that you attack on him is racist???
What’s sad is that Yale, like Harvard, Princeton, etc., and more recently, Duke, were all founded by highly spiritual Christians, with a definite purpose of educating Christian leaders.
sonofdy, well put but don’t forget who you’re dealing with here. AND, Sarah actually sleeps with this radical.
Well then, are you sure ’she’ was actually a ’she’?
Soon we will need to require a chromosomal test before assigning sex.
I submitted a comment about 30 minutes ago that had 4 links in it…and I think that was over the threshold that puts it in the spam queue. I’ll re-submit the comment with less links, but my apologies in advance if Michelle later posts the previous message and the new one ends up being a duplicate…
Liberals act like this isn’t true, but Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc., and more recently Duke, were all founded by highly spiritual Christians for the purpose of training Christian leaders.
Well, now, I’s from that there Pacific Northwest and, dag gum, she sure is right. We loves shootin’ our guns, hockin’ loogies at our spittoons, trackin’ dem darkies and runnin’ em outta town, smackin’ dem Injuns around, and just raisin’ Hell! Wahooo!
crooks hide their past. obama has hidden his past. obama is a crook. dots connected.
barack hussein obama is a muslim name. muslims hate america. barack hussein obama hates america. lgm needs to quit linking nonsense. everyone hates our government sometimes.
Wow. If that is what passes for “critical thinking” at Connecticut College, they are in deep trouble.
Her reasoning is basically, that if you choose to live in the Pacific Northwest, you must have radical tendencies (whatever radical is by her definition. Conservative, perhaps?).
I wonder if the rest of her “research” is as well thought through. History majors are really a type of voyeur, reading about what others did, and trying to make themselves important by criticizing it from afar, in the manner of an armchair quarterback, as though they could have or would have done it better (with 20/20 hindsight, of course).
How long will it be before she suggests forced relocation of minorities, which she finds underrepresented, in Idaho for example. I suppose it never entered her skull full of liberal mush that many minority groups simply choose not to live there. I would hazard a guess that there are very few resident minorities in the gated Connecticut community in which she lives.
She might also consider the radical liberals and hoards of illegal aliens that occupy the Pacific southwest.
That probably doesn’t fit her worldview.
Thank heavens most of the comments are saying how pathetic and ridiculous this is. One that I found quite amusing, though:
PDS in full swing, indeed.
This from the resident far leftie that has little problem with the planned secession of Aztlan by the invasion from the south.
On September 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am, lgm said:
Funny you would point that out, since you never seem to have a problem with anyone else hating America. Selective outrage much, lgm?
LGM
So, does this mean you have something in common, LGM?
Connecticut College is located in my home town. New London was founded in 1646 by John Winthrop the Younger, was site of some the earliest newspapers in colonial New England, is home of the US Coast Guard Academy, and was the boyhood home of playwright Eugene O’Neill. I reject (#25) Marc’s rude and careless characterization of New London as a “an awful dump of a city”.
That said, I sent the esteemed Conn College professor this email yesterday:
We escaped from Vermont 8 years ago,
because these wacko’s are thriving in the northeast….Moved to the GREAT STATE OF TEXAS!! love it…
GOD BLESS “TEXAS”
Barack Obama attended Reverened Wrights Church for 20 years.
Reverend Wright is an American Hating Rascist.
Therefore Obama is an American Hating Rascist.
See, I can do it too.
My memory is a little foggy, but wasn’t the left all up in a fuss about the government coming down on Randy Weaver at the time of the Ruby Ridge incident? (not that the criticism was not warranted otherwise the lawsuits wouldn’t have been paid). And now that it’s expedient to paint him as a terrorist that’s the way they go.
On September 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am, luckydogg said:
How did you fare with the hurricane?
From her bio…
Never mind those pesky fellows who brought down the twin towers. Nah, not radical at all. No need to worry there…
We live 135 miles west of Dallas….
Just sunshine here…..My wife’s company sent down BIG generators..
Despite his efforts to portray himself as an average, inner-city, “sophisticated” American, Barack ‘The Rock’ Obama’s political views – ardently anti-gun, pro-socialist, antiamerican and antiwhite – make even Ted Kennedy’s liberal credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme – they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious “urban radicals” of our time.
A One Minute piece of College History we all should know.
Is that a picture of Ward Churchill on her bio? Or is she just more mannish that Rachel Maddow?
#78 Sambo
Excelent!!!
srhoades, what a fantastic back-handed compliment (observation). Coincidentally, she seems to share the “Church”’s views… YIKES.
I’m a radical up here in Idaho. What this woman doesn’t understand is the difference in racist groups and people how believe in the U.S. constitution. Those on the left are threatened most by the strict reading of that document.
You have to enjoy this logic.
Some racist groups exist in the Pacific Northwest. Blacks have a low population in the Pacific Northwest. Sarah Palin is from Alaska which is considered by some to be the Pacific Northwest.
Therefore, Sarah Palin is a racist.
They teach that in college?
thanks Simon86. I’m gonna rewrite the whole thing and make it factual and send it back to her. I’m not a very good writer so throw in your own stuff.
I’m looking for a good Chicago miltia right now.
It’s called inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning, sometimes called inductive logic, is the process of reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed to support the conclusion but do not entail it; i.e. they do not ensure its truth.
I seem to recall reading that schoolchildren used to use Isaac Watts’ “Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth” as a textbook. Perhaps we should reinstitute such things. As they say, “No school like the old school.”
sambo,
How’s this for paragraph 2:
It has been only a few weeks since William Ayers and Reverend Wright made us wonder why so many “angry men” populated the Greater Chicago area. Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by hate spouting preachers and unrepentant domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention to foreign terrorists. But we should never forget that in the late 20th century, the Weather Underground and race baiting “supposed” preachers flourished in Chicago, the very region that Barak Obama and his family call home.
sambo,
Can’t find Chicago militia, but how about these guys:
Try to get that past the teachers union/ sarc
The link didn’t post. I’m new to the comment section so probably did it wrong. Anyway, check out “Vice Lords” on Wikipedia.
walterc said (#74):
This is not true. He’s a vet. His “G-d damn America” was part of a larger thought. More or less the same thought is carved in stone in Washington — in the Lincoln memorial: America will and deserves to be punished by G-d for the evil of racial discrimination. Did Lincoln hate America?
Your a sick man LGM
This professor just gave me another reason to send my child (who goes to college next year) to a CHRISTIAN College that keeps the faith, teaches young people how to think AND encourages mission.
Simon86 . That was excellent . The reason I was looking for a org with Militia in it is that I want to use as many of her words as possible. I think Michelle should start a thread so we all can contribute and make a PERFECT rewrite of her article. We also need a introduction to it address to her, the school, and the paper.
Hilarious. So by her “logic”, liberals of Washington and Oregon are also racists.
Listen… I have met a ton of people from Harvard and Yale. Some are bright; some are just good at taking tests; some are just down right stupid. I learned long ago that liberal professors give good grades to liberal students and bad grades to conservative or even moderate students. Example: I had a journalism teacher in high school that gave me an A in the first half of the year, but once she found out that I was a republican, she gave me a C. I had a economics professor that was a communist. Despite making A’s and B’s in all my other economics classes, he gave me a C. Go figure. I law school, chock full of liberals, I had good grades until they found out I was a member of the college republicans. Hmmm… liberal facists.