We have been following the rise of political violence on the left since the Trump election. In reality, attacks on conservative and pro-life faculty and students is nothing new. Today, I am speaking at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on free speech after a student recently trashed a pro-life table on the campus in Asheville. Now, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a professor allegedly trashed a table of the College Republicans over their support for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. The accused José Felipe Alvergue, is not just a professor but the chair of the English department.
Tatiana Bobrowicz, the chair of the College Republicans at the school, said she set up the table supporting Schimel outside the student center about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, with candy, doughnuts and literature. Then a man walked up and demanded to know what they were doing. He accused them of being too close to a polling location (which was located in the nearby student center).
Bobrowicz tried to explain that they were not in violation (which allows for tables beyond 100 feet) and that location was approved by the university. She then said that the man declared “the time for this is over,” flipped the table over and then walked away.
Bobrowicz immediately called the police and the UW-Eau Claire identified the man as José Felipe Alvergue, the chair of the English department. He has been put on leave by the univerity.
In his university bio, Alvergue identifies as “a member of the Salvadoran diaspora.” He adds this rather cryptic statement about “unlocking empathy”:
” I believe that we can’t unlock the empathy hidden behind words if we don’t understand what is at stake in the risk writers and artists take when they decide to transform the matter which makes up the world around them into the story words communicate.”
He is now charged with disorderly conduct, according to Wisconsin court records. While this is a relatively minor crime, it was a crime committed against both students and free speech on campus. He must appear for a court appearance on May 7.
He would be hardly unique in advocating or even being convicted of political violence on campus.
It is now common to hear inflammatory language from professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements.
At the University of Rhode Island, professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. The University of Rhode Island was so appalled by his apparent support for political violence that it made him Director of Graduate Studies of History.
Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University. Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty. She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful. One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. She was then hired by another college.
Another example comes from the State University of New York at Albany, where sociology professor Renee Overdyke shut down a pro-life display and then resisted arrest. One student is heard screaming, “She’s a [expletive] professor.” That of course is the point.
If convicted, Alvergue would be not just guilty of the underlying charge but committing political violence against students. There does not appear to have been mitigating circumstances or any provocation other than students who hold an opposing view from his own.
He then walked away rather than address the matter with the students and the authorities. If convicted, the question is whether conservative students should have to wait for Alvergue to find a way to “unlock [his] empathy” through what is clearly uncontrollable rage.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Good job, Turls. Way to pick the most relevant legal story of the day.
Could’ve gone with illegal deportations to El Salvador. Or the first lawsuit on the trump administration for its illegal tariff tax announcement that’s crushing the stock market. Biggest one day drop since fat Elvis bungled his covid response…
But no, you totally nailed it, chin.
Aside from being partially illiterate, Alvergue appears to be another radicalized fraud—a hatred of both himself and America concealed behind a veil of nonsensical jargon and platitudes. In his “statement of practice,” he writes: “As have my experiences of living through the structural inequality, hate, and racial supremacy of Southern California’s political landscape during the late 1990s, including the various examples of xenophobic legislation, police abuse, and the militarization of the border…” How are individuals like this able to infiltrate our educational institutions? A young boy fleeing a civil war in one country only to create his own in another.
#74. Jose Felipe is suffering a break down obviously. He’s on leave. Any chair of a college dept showing anger and violence should be on leave. The college took immediate appropriate action.
It may be advisable that he remain on leave. Violence of any kind has no place around young people. Hopefully he’s under medical care.
There are no “professors” or “colleges” or “universities.” They were replaced a long time ago. The colleges and universities have been replaced by LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION ENTITIES (aka “LIEs”). And the professors have been replaced by MARXIST DEMAGOGUES. Until people understand this reality, they understand nothing about what’s actually already taken place.
The LIEs and their Marxist Demagogues aren’t just against free speech and liberty. They are adamantly opposed to thinking and reasoning. Blind obedience to the Marxist Totalitarian State is what they’re after.
There’s a classic episode from the original 1960s series The Outer Limits called “The Special One,” starring Richard Ney, that presents this point in an entertaining science fiction context. In “The Special One,” the parents of a child science prodigy are approached by a mysterious official called Mr. Xeno, who offers to give him special private tutoring. Unknown to them, Mr. Xeno is an alien posing as a government educator, who seeks to indoctrinate their gifted child, Kenny, to prepare him as a vanguard for an alien invasion.
As with all episodes of The Outer Limits, the narrator closes with the moral of the story:
“The mould of a man stems from the mind of a child. Educators and emperors have known this from time immemorial. So have tyrants.
“We now return control of your television set to you until next week at this same time when the control voice will take you to . . . The Outer Limits.”
And to quote an actual tyrant of the Left:
‘He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.’–Adolph Hitler.
The Professor should be fired. The reason we have so much of this violence and intolerance is that the universities consistently fail to fire the faculty and expel students. There are no consequences.
Of course, the “professor” (Marxist Demagogue in reality) should be fired. Be he wont because he’s doing exactly what his Marxist Demogogue Administrators at the Leftist Indoctination Entity (aka “LIE”) want him to do. See my message above if you really want to understand why this is so.
Disorderly Conduct…Damage to Property….Election Crimes….and depriving a Citizen of their Civil Rights…..seems some charges that would fit the situation….not just a simple misdemeanor. Not that it would matter when it is the Lefties misbehaving.
# The actual realization from the article is Jose Felipe isn’t going anywhere. Because of whitey he’s in torture trying to find himself as a Salvadoran and is in crisis because of whitey and the US. Unlocking empathy has him stuck he says, he has none. He must have lost the key…
Teach Salvadoran literature instead, Jose.
OT: Tariffs and foreign investment-
So these foreign investors are setting up shop in the USA and intend to utilize American labor to make their products?
I’m not working for any industry that isn’t American owned, President Trump.
Jose Felipe should be watched for suicide. Ontological torture….
Gets some R&R José Felipe.
Conclusion: Communism in any and all forms is unconstitutional in the United States of America under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Americans, and America must be neutralized with extreme prejudice.
@Anonymous
Yup. This is something people seem to be unable to understand, and freedom of religion notwithstanding, Sharia Law is also diametrical to our Constitution. Period on both and all other counts that fall under the umbrella (I’m looking at you, Western Europe). Additionally, in both the public and private sectors, people are free to act like morons, but employers are equally, legally free to fire them for their trouble.
And just an addendum: being arrested for committing crimes is not ‘being kidnapped’. Being fired for doing a really shitty job is not ‘tyranny’. This is all absolute, entitled madness. We created it with trophies and the creep of Marxism as truth into education. Would we care to undo it now? Would we?
There is nothing left to say about this but it is madness. Period. Stop sending your kids, cut their endowments. We are going to have burn it to the ground and start over.
Dennis:
What a hellacious morning! April will be a cruel month for me, as my unemployment runs out at the end of the month. Which means, that I have to have my Klarna account paid off. No wiggle room for any goodies this month – it is “cook every meal” and put off buying a new box of screws for my latest pallet-wood home furnishing project. I will use the screws I have and maybe some pallet nails that I pulled out when disassembling the pallets. I will have to hammer them straight, but I am retired, and have lots of time. I actually made a nice book case out of one of the pallets, to sit on top of a rolling record cabinet that I made out of some old wrecked cabinets that a friend picked up while he was tearing in them out of a job site. Those suckers are like 1 inch thick, and real wood, not particle board. Now, the thing kinda looks like a real piece of furniture!
WalMart delivered three 7 quart latch boxes, but did not bring the tops. So that was a phone call. Then, I opted to return my pallet-buster ($42) but the WalMart return pickup lady went to the wrong house. Then, when she got here, she could not pick it up because there was no bar code. I told her that I am a cripple, and that I don’t go to the bars anymore, nor drink. That went over her head. Anyway, another phone call to WalMart, and they are just going to refund the money and forego the return. WalMart is good about stuff like that.
I discovered that I can get a ton of porkchops for about $10 if I choose the bone-in chops assorted package. Less than $11 for 5 1/2 pounds of chops, or about half the regular price! I will be eating a lot of porkchops this month, since I got 2 packages. I will make up some freezer bags with a porkchop, two small canned potatoes, some canned green beans, a slice or two of white onion, and some whole peeled canned tomatoes. Into the freezer and then for a meal, into the rice cooker! Cheap eating but very tasty. I also invested in 8 more cans of Armor Hash Browns. They are now $2.12 per can, (which is up 30 cents from last week.) and I expect the price to rise pretty quickly. Good prepper item, and also good if you fry it up with eggs for breakfast. I can get 3 to 4 servings per can.
And, I had a $253 water bill this month, from a leak. Usually about $40 per month, so OUCH! But on the good side, I have a ton of food in the house, enough for 3 or 4 months, or more. Enough coffee for 2 years or so, and hot tea, the same. I was able to buy 2 sets of guitar strings, d’addario 11s, since one of my cats decided to play with the A string on the J Mascis Jazzmaster. And, WalMart actually had a replacement tremolo arm for my Variax standard guitar – a Gotoh A7 for only $12. Maybe in May, I can get a new adapter for my Amplifii TT, if I can not find the one I have. I am going to be playing guitar a lot more. Probably going to try to sell a few of them this month on craigslist.
So, that is how my day started. Oh, and my table got upset too, last nite when one of the cats jumped up there and knocked a lot of stuff off it. It is a home-made table I used to make coffee on, and it doubles as a rolling work bench. I bought some hinges, and I am going to make a top cover to go over the Keurig machine, to keep the dang cat hair out of it. r
Floyd: depending on where the water leak was, the water company might excuse the bill. If it was inside the house and you didn’t fix it–that’s on you. If it was something for which they are responsible, you might have a case. They might also have some program to help disabled people who have problems with their water line–it’s worth checking into. Here’s a true story from several years ago–we got a letter from the water company saying that, according to their remote reader, we were using very little water. The letter said: “If you are deceased, please notify us immediately”. Turns out the remote reader was malfunctioning. So, they came out and replaced it and read the actual meter–the reading was really high, so the bill was about $500. We complained because it wasn’t our fault, and didn’t think it was fair to get hit with such a high bill, so they settled for about $100. When I called them about the bill, they said: “did you really think you weren’t using that much water?” I said: “well, we installed a water saver toilet”. The guy said: “are you trying to be a comedian”?
OMG!
Gigenius goes human interest!
Is this April Fools’ Day?
Thank you for the tip! But my water is billed thru the mobile home park. They get one bill, and then split it out among us, depending on our meter reading. I bought a hose from WalMart to use to clean out the kitten mesh kennels, back when I had six kittens. I left the hose on, because it is hard for me to get behind the porch and turn it off. The darn hose burst, and my illegal alien neighbor let me know, but that rascal was running like crazy. On top of that, I had a leak outside too, from the water pipe feeding the spigot. I got that fixed for $50 bucks.
As long as nothing else happens out of the ordinary, I can survive it.
Floyd: there still might be some program to help disabled people with high utility bills. I know there is for heat and electricity. It doesn’t hurt to ask. The outside leak isn’t your fault, IMHO–wouldn’t the park be responsible for that?
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# Floyd, I’m having an ontological crisis and can’t unlock my empathy for your plight.
I’m work/-ing on it. It’s torture.
Homage Jose.
” I believe that we can’t unlock the empathy hidden behind words if we don’t understand what is at stake in the risk writers and artists take when they decide to transform the matter which makes up the world around them into the story words communicate.”
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Behold the trite gobbletygook that passes for scholarly thought IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. Is there any wonder why this guy overturned both a table and free speech?
My first impression upon reading the good professors writing was that we finally located Kamala Harris’s speech writer. My second thought was that if the English professor thinks he can turn words into matter, he would be better suited to teaching at Hogwarts.
I usually find myself concluding that the most threatening deficit of some politicians is their illiteracy.
It’s rather disappointing to to see another example of someone employed by secondary institutions, institutions tasked with creating literacy, exhibiting the very thing those institutions are designed to prevent.
Why do all looney lefties, become democrats? Or is it the other way around?
Answer: “Free stuff” and “free status” rather than the individual responsibility required by the American thesis, Freedom and Self-Reliance—the American Way.
Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Yeah, but who’s gonna pay the bills, Karl, the “dictatorship of the proletariat?”
Yeah, them and Obama:
Why are you here? To get some money. What kind of money? Obama money. Where’s it coming from? Obama. Where did Obama get it? I don’t know, his stash.
https://youtu.be/fOZ-Etb0k0Q
Professor, I like and respect you immensely, but I can’t understand for the life of me why you are still a voting Democrat? You obviously see and know what is going on, as you comment on their actions all the time. So how can you still support the Democrats, knowing full well what they do and how much hatred they possess?
Two things are of note:
1. This self-described victim of “ontological torture” (yes, that’s what his bio page says) pulls down a salary of $79,546 a year which is a good chunk of change in a mid-size Midwestern town like Eau Claire.
2. Though an Associate Professor of English, his writings are utter gibberish. Take a look at his statement of practice at: https://www.jfalvergue.com/practice This stuff is laugh out loud funny. It’s like it was written by Chat GPT with the pretense dial turned up to “11”.
# Read the article, bohnjam. In it he admits he’s deranged by his life experiences and it’s the fault of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. He admits He’s nihilistic and pessimistic as he continues to work/-ing toward becoming El Salvadoran.
Yes, an unhappy guy. He’s teaching English literature? 😂 Probably has a hateful interpretation? Must have been that Panama canal…
José Felipe Alvergue, the chair of the English department. … ” He adds this rather cryptic statement about “unlocking empathy”:
He speaks fluent Kamala Harris Word-Salad,
[??? and he’s the chair of the English department ???]
He and The Dean of the College, need to be terminated ASAP.
Him for his actions, the Dean to be held accountable for supervising & hiring him.
You must kill the roots of the Weed, if you want to eradicate the problem(s).
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