The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has long been criticized for far-left policies and activism. Some of us have criticized the organization for ignoring academic priorities and the record-low polling on public trust in higher education. Its president, Todd Wolfson, is now taking that activism global with a boycott policy that leaves little room for faculty members who support Israel.
I previously criticized the selection of Wolfson as the head of the AAUP. Wolfson, a Rutgers University anthropologist and former union leader, is a highly political activist who doubled down on the ideological intolerance that now defines higher education. His election was a defiant statement by faculty members that they will not yield in preserving the current ideological echochamber in our universities and colleges. He promised to keep AAUP as a “fighting organization” for liberal causes.
Wolfson has made clear that there is little tolerance for opposing views on this far-left agenda. Many have analogized Wolfson to teacher union figures like American Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten in making the organization an extension of the Democratic Party. Wolfson used his position to oppose Trump’s reelection and has remained an outspoken voice in support of Democratic causes.
One of the issues that has been most divisive on our campuses is the support of Palestine and Israel. Rather than support the free speech rights of both sides, Wolfson and AAUP have abandoned neutrality to call for a weapons boycott of the Jewish state.
A recent interview with Inside Higher Ed contains Wolfson’s signature radical rhetoric in declaring that “Vance and Trump and [Christopher] Rufo and Stephen Miller and the ilk that run our government are fascist in a 21st-century variant.”
Wolfson also echoes the identity politics that have long characterized policies in higher education:
“Faculty and the press and people of color and women and gay people and trans people and anybody that’s not white, Christian nationalist, in the end, is othered. And then even within the white Christian nationalist community, if you’re not MAGA, or you care about a free press, or care about free inquiry, you’re othered.”
One notable element was how Wolfson explained the new foreign policy of the AAUP. He makes clear that the AAUP now believes that Israel must be cut off entirely from any weapons by the United States:
“We believe strongly that no weapons should be sent to Israel at all. Not defensive or offensive, nothing.
What do we do in the U.S., where antisemitism has been used as a weapon, in many ways, by the Trump administration to bring universities to heel—and many times stripping out, or threatening to strip out, hundreds of millions of research dollars that often affect Jewish faculty members? Versus what our position should be on the conflict in the Middle East?”
Notably, he stresses that Israel is guilty of genocide while pushing the new jingoistic term “scholasticide”:
“First and foremost, our job is to safeguard ourselves at home and to set a vision that aligns with what we’re trying to do in the United States. We need to stand up for academic freedom, for freedom of speech, for freedom of assembly for our students so they can protest the war—the genocide, excuse me—that’s taking place in Gaza.
We need to stand up to the weaponization of antisemitism in the Title VI process. And we need to make sure that we defend our members…
The number of universities and faculty and university presidents [in Gaza] that have been killed and universities that have been destroyed in this war is mammoth. We are certainly educating our members on this concept of scholasticide.
It seems pretty evident that they are—but if, in fact, Israel is purposefully destroying the educational infrastructure, both K–12 and higher ed, of Palestine, and of Gaza, that stands against our values of academic freedom. And if that’s the case, and we can unify around that, then we will take a stand and call for an end to the scholasticide.”
So now the AAUP is advocating a weapons boycott, including defensive weapons for a nation that its neighbors have repeatedly attacked? Many countries and groups have dedicated themselves to Israel’s destruction. We have protests in the United States calling for liberation “from the river to the sea,” a mantra viewed as a call for the eradication of Israel. Rather than call for peace and support for academics on both sides, the AAUP is seeking to disarm one side.
The new sloganeering about “scholasticide” would be more convincing if Wolfson were not the very face of ideological orthodoxy and intolerance in higher education. This generation of faculty and administrators has destroyed the intellectual diversity of our campuses. Just last week, the leading AAUP publication ran a long column against intellectual diversity.
What Wolfson and faculty members are doing today is the very definition of scholasticide by effectively purging conservative or libertarian faculty from departments and maintaining the current academic echo chamber. Applications and trust in higher education are plummeting. Yet, the response from the AAUP has been to double down on its political agenda and even adopt a foreign policy targeting Israel.
Given years of hiring faculty from the left to the far left, Wolfson can expect ongoing support from the ranks of the AAUP. However, the public, donors, and many legislators have had enough with the ideological agenda in academia. They are supporting programs that return to core educational priorities and promote a diversity of thought.
Unfortunately, the result will be the increasing balkanization of higher education. However, with Wolfson and the AAUP leading higher education off an ideological cliff, many will choose to get out of the car in this game of chicken. Regrettably, others will decide not to go into academia. We cannot allow this orthodoxy to lead us to give up on the academy. We have to stay and fight for the restoration of intellectual diversity and tolerance in higher education.
When people become unsatisfied with their lives because of some imagined hardships, they always seem to go for the old standby: blame it on the Jews. Notice he doesn’t spew any venom at North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan, or any other hardline authoritarian state that suppresses people’s rights. It’s almost always Israel that gets singled out for inferior treatment – notwithstanding that Israel is the only Middle East country that has free and fair elections and protects gay rights, women’s rights, among others – IOW, a liberal democracy that they should like. But . . . it’s Jewish, so no bueno in their eyes. When choosing between the liberal democracy that is Israel, and a genocidal death cult that seeks to kill all gays, subjugate women, and commit genocide against the Jews, American leftists always opt for the latter. It is a hatred and mental illness as old as civilization itself.
oldman
I agree wholeheartedly.
Those pesky antisemites are everywhere.
Just last night I found one hiding under my bed.
The night before that I found one hiding in my closet.
Last week I found one hiding in my backyard.
They are EVERYWHERE you look these days.
Something really needs to be done about this
Are you a Holocaust denier. Are you an October 7th denier? Do you deny that after Hamas committed atrocities on 10/7/23, killing 1,200 Jews and taking 250 hostage, American universities exploded with sometimes-violent protests supporting the terrorists? Do you basically deny all of history?
No wonder you post your garbage anonymously, anonymous low-IQ troll.
How many Arabs living in Gaza has Israel slaughtered? I would have to believe that all Arabs living in Gaza are not Hamas. I recently read it’s close to 50,000 dead, men, women and children. That will teach those blood thirsty savages…
You are apparently concerned with the number of deaths. Let’s assume your numbers are correct or a bit higher.
Second Congo War: 5,400,000 deaths
Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000 deaths
Yemeni Civil War: 400,000 deaths
Tigray War: up to 400,000 deaths
Darfur: 400,000
Columbian Conflict: 450,000
Liberian Civil war: 300,000
Why are you so concerned about the 50,000+ terrorists who started the war and used their own women and children as human shields, along with killing a large number of their own. Anytime they put down their missiles and guns, the war would have ended.
Why, why is Gaza your focus?
It is easy to answer. You are an ignorant antisemite. Now, to get back at me, go beat up your wife. After all, she deserves it, so you say.
You are an ignorant antisemite.
Really, what other explanation could there be? Despicable people like Anon completely ignore the fact that exactly nobody in Gaza would have died if Hamas hadn’t first attacked Israel. She also ignores that Israel is by far the world’s leader in inventing ways of minimizing the opponent’s civilian deaths during a time of war. The exact opposite is true of Hamas: they actually want more Arab deaths, and purposefully design their strategy around that goal, hiding rocket launchers in schools, hospitals, and other civilian sites, and blocking non-Hamas Palestinians from leaving an active war zone. As you pointed out, they use their own women and children as human shields for the very purpose of maximizing their own civilian deaths.
Why? Because they’re a genocidal death cult. They want genocide on the Jews, and death for their own people. They have a sick, twisted, demented ideology where they think the more death and carnage they cause, the better will be their afterlife and the hastening of some kind of messiah. This is the same ideology as the ayatollahs in Iran.
For humanity to continue into the next century, their ideology must be not only outlawed, but wiped off the face of the earth forever. Without that, the human race will not survive to 2100.
Did you ask how many Arabs killed in Gaza were killed by Hamas?
You should have – after all, you were happy to swallow the numbers they gave you that they claimed were non-terrorist womenand children.
GET NEW MATERIAL! LAME ANON!
They should be summarily deported with extreme prejudice for espionage and treason.
Of course theArabs are a Semitic peoples.
The term ‘antisemite’ is misused.
David
You are quite right as always.
So when people like oldmanfromkansas and S. Meyer go on one of their rants excoriating Palestinians and other Arabs, they are clearly engaging in antisemitism
Waiting for a Democrat New Hitler Youth Movement spokesman who can give us a short list of the names of the last “Palestinian” kings, emperors, Caliphs, etc who ruled that empire that Hamas has been waging a war of terror to recreate.
Despite what you say, words have meanings whether developed appropriately or not. When you don’t have facts, you play games with definitions. You almost never have facts.
The likelihood you are an antisemite is high, or should I say the likelihood of you not being an antisemite is low.
As usual Meyer comes up with absurd, incomprehensible, self-contradictory gobbledegook.
“words have meanings whether developed appropriately or not” is a totally absurd contradiction.
If the meaning of a word is not “developed appropriately” then it does not have meaning.
This statement of yours is completely meaningless.
But, I guess it is not “developed appropriately”, which would explain why it is meaningless.
Try to get back to us when your statement is “developed appropriately”.
And I would also add that the likelihood you are an idiot is high, or should I say the likelihood of you not being an idiot is low.
“words have meanings whether developed appropriately or not” is a totally absurd contradiction.”
When you learn how to read and think, you will feel differently.
And here we have yet another example of Meyer’s many psychiatric disorders and neurological defects, in this case, Wernicke’s aphasia, not to be confused with Wernicke’s encephalopathy.
You will note that he uses words and language in a way that is meaningless and does not make sense.
For example, he makes the statement, “words have meanings whether developed appropriately or not”.
This clearly does not make sense. If the meaning of a word is not “developed appropriately” then it does not have meaning. He seems to think that the meaning of words is not fixed and can be used in any context no matter how irrelevant or absurd.
Patients with Wernicke’s aphasia typically have very fluent speech, and are often quite loquacious. However on close examination, one realizes that the speech is just a jumble of words with no meaning. They use words in ways that do not make sense to the observer. They also have great difficult comprehending speech and written language.
This is clearly apparent when Meyer makes statements like, “words have meanings whether developed appropriately or not”. This clearly does not make sense. He is using words in a meaningless way.
Then when challenged, he responds with equally meaningless statements such as, “When you learn how to read and think, you will feel differently”. He demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of my written response and produces yet another meaningless statement. He believes that his original statement makes sense and that I am the one who misunderstands his meaning.
Again this is a typical finding in Wernicke’s aphasia.
These patients believe that they are the only ones who make sense, and that everyone else is speaking nonsensically.
You try to taunt, but even your insults collapse under their own weight. Then you scurry back to your safe little anonymous shell, pretending it never happened. No matter what name you hide behind, your words stay the same: empty, inaccurate, and utterly forgettable.
Maybe we can go back to your famous Torah “interpretations”; those priceless flops where you had no clue what the words meant but still managed to sound smug about it.
Those Torah “interpretation’s” were not that guy.
And they weren’t mine (the poster) either.
Its interesting that you wouldnt want to leave that butt whipping in the past.
Your jewsplaining was even more lame than expected.
Anon
I’m glad that you took the time to explain to our poor unbalanced Meyer that I am not the one who engaged him in the “Torah interpretations” discussion.
I was considering pointing this out, but I realized he would never believe me.
Your comment, “Its interesting that you wouldn’t want to leave that butt whipping in the past” is quite insightful. It is yet further evidence of Meyer’s perseveration which is a common finding in obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia.
His belief that I am the one from the Torah interpretations discussion is also evidence of even more psychological defects. He believes that I am the only one who posts critical comments about him. This tendency is not a psychological disorder in and of itself, but it is evidence of the cognitive dysfunction associated with schizophrenia and delusional personality disorders.
“but I realized he would never believe me.”
How can anyone believe anything you say? You are competing with George Svelaz X for the number of different aliases: Sigmund Fraud, Bond, and Anonymous. Who knows what else? All we know is that you say a lot of stupid things and blame them on another Anonymous.
You are a coward who cannot defend what he says.
And here we have even more confirmation of Meyer’s cognitive dysfunction.
He still believes that I am the only one here who makes critical comments about him.
We already know this is not true,
But Meyer persists in this delusional cognitive dysfunction.
This is also further confirmation of his paranoid personality disorder.
He believes that I am using multiple identities to attack him.
Paranoia at its finest.
It’s hard to debate a coward, especially one hiding behind a dozen names, spewing rhetoric without substance, and saving his empty jabs for when he can post under “anonymous” and run away. By the way, your diagnoses are real enough, but they’re being tossed around by someone who clearly doesn’t understand the terms and uses them like buzzwords. Run away, little boy, back to your mother’s basement.
Interesting comment here by Meyer.
He states, “By the way, your diagnoses are real enough”.
We seem to be making progress with Meyer. Apparently he is beginning to understand and gain insight into his many psychiatric disorders.
This may be the breakthrough we have been looking for.
Acceptance by the patient of his psychiatric diagnoses is the vital first step to treatment and recovery.
There may yet be hope for this poor, forlorn individual who is burdened by so many different psychiatric disorders.
It’s not just that you misuse words, you leave out the ones that matter. In plain terms, that’s called lying. You wear it well.
Oh dear, perhaps I spoke too soon about Meyer’s acceptance of his vast array of psychiatric disorders.
He is now back to insulting me.
As I have previously noted patients with paranoid personality disorder and/or delusional personality disorder typically refuse to accept their diagnoses and attack the doctor, whom they believe is acting malevolently in a conspiracy against them.
I had hoped that Meyer’s statement, “By the way, your diagnoses are real enough” is an indication of his acceptance, but apparently this is not the case.
This regression is most disconcerting, but I still hold out hope that Meyer will eventually come to accept his psychiatric disorders.
Never fear Meyer, the road to recover is often tortuous and littered with setbacks, but I know you can do it if you put your mind to it.
“Oh dear, perhaps I spoke too soon about Meyer’s acceptance of his vast array of psychiatric disorders.”
Sigmund Fraud’s imagination is running on fumes, so to make this interesting, I suggest readers look at Anonymous’s reply below: “Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight.”
It was a well-crafted retort, flipping the insult back onto Fraud’s own head in a beautiful act of rhetorical reversal and ridicule. He humiliated Sigmund Fraud with a mocking, sarcastic, and combative tone, all achieved with a remarkable economy of words.
Thank you to Anonymous for a well-delivered piece.
Here we have another fascinating comment from Meyer that gives us a glimpse of yet another, heretofore unseen, personality disorder.
We can now add dependent personality disorder to the never ending list of his problems.
Those with dependent personality disorder tend to rely heavily on others for support and actively seek reassurance that they are normal. They tend to be excessively sensitive to criticism and make frequent, overt appeals to others for approval and social acceptance. When someone reassures them of their normalcy they usually become overly patronizing and thankful to that person. This clinging behavior to those who “take care of them” is one of the most common findings in dependent personality disorder
Here we see Meyer responding to support from Anonymous in a manner typical of dependent personality disorder.
He obsequiously and excessively lavishes praise on Anonymous in a particularly servile display of attention seeking to satisfy his need for social reassurance and acceptance. His feelings of inferiority are assuaged by the reassurance he receives from Anonymous, and in return he indulges in a remarkable, ingratiating display of excessive gratitude.
Textbook example of dependent personality disorder !!!!
When Anonymous hit the ball out of the park, did the ball hit you on the head? Let’s reread what he said.
“Sigmund FRAUD posted “And here we have yet another example of Meyer’s many psychiatric disorders and neurological defects…”
Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!
Sigmund Freud, the opposite of our Sigmund FRAUD, defined the emotional pathology that Sigmund FRAUD puts on public display:”
Here we see yet another display of Meyer’s obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Not content with his original quote from Anonymous, he feels compelled to repeat himself and re-post the quote in a vain attempt to reinforce his point.
Perhaps he hopes that Anonymous will come to his rescue again to satisfy his dependent personality disorder needs.
This repetition also indicates that he is under the influence of the illusory truth effect. He believes that if he repeats himself often enough then his psychotic ramblings will gain some element of truth.
Ah, the Fraud returns with another round of internet psychiatry. You really should bill yourself by the hour, though I’m not sure who would pay.
Sigmund FRAUD posted “And here we have yet another example of Meyer’s many psychiatric disorders and neurological defects…”
Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!
Sigmund Freud, the opposite of our Sigmund FRAUD, defined the emotional pathology that Sigmund FRAUD puts on public display:
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.
They have become what they hate
Blah blah blah. Professor this is beneath you. The word ‘antisemitism’ has a well known meaning: hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people (per Oxford dictionary).
Blah, blah, blah.
Those antisemites are EVERYWHERE you look.
Everything wrong in the world today is because of antisemitism.
Every little short coming you experience in your miserable life is because of antisemitism.
Antisemites are to blame for the fact that you live your life as a pathetic, aggrieved victim.
Oh woe is me !!!!
If it wasn’t for those antisemites I would be be living a much better life.
Blah, blah, blah.
Give it a rest buddy.
We are not interested in participating in pathetic victimhood.
Yep, as oldman said, this idiot is a Holocaust denier.
No I am not a Holocaust denier.
I am just a normal, rational, well-adjusted human being who gets tired of people who apparently spend there entire lives in a state self-pity and victimhood. It becomes increasingly tiresome when people like you wear your Judaism on your sleeve and constantly bemoan your victimhood.
You interpret any personal criticism as antisemitism. You seem to think that your Judaism endows you with some form of infallibility such that your beliefs are always correct and that anyone who criticizes you is necessarily antisemitic.
This constant barrage of “boo, hoo, hoo, I’m Jewish and everybody hates me”, is a pathetic way to live your life.
Try to act like a normal human being instead of a pathetic, aggrieved victim.
Yep, Holocaust denier.
Note how Meyer repeats the same phrases over and over again.
“Yep, he is a holocaust denier’ is essentially a repetition of his comment at 5:50pm. He has nothing to add, nothing relevant to say, so he simply repeats himself.
Perseveration is a common finding in obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia.
As I have noted numerous times, Meyer is a veritable cornucopia of psychiatric disorders and psychological defects.
I am sure that his psychiatrist will publish many clinical papers describing this individual in whom we can identify so many different disorders.
“Yep, Holocaust denier.”
Correct, he is a Holocaust denier. Nothing more was necessary. Not everyone is like you, who responds repeatedly with the same thoughts using multiple paragraphs to say nothing.
Ahhhh yes !!!
Here we have an excellent example of perseveration in all its glory.
Once he has a thought, Meyer is psychologically incapable of letting it go. He repeats the same phrase over and over again believing that repetition begets assurance that his utterances must be factually correct.
Yes indeed. The very definition of perseveration and its associated psychological defects.
Siggy, out of your shell again, recycling the same hollow insults. Inside that shell, you keep a dozen clashing opinions, none of them informed. You think hiding behind “anonymous” lets you shed your idiocy, but it only shows how little you’ve grown. Every reappearance is just another round of your stagnant, self-contradictory nonsense.
Now scurry back to mama’s basement before you embarrass yourself again.
Meyer seems to believe that I am insulting him with my comments, when in reality I am simply making objective clinical observations of his psychiatric disorders.
Many patients with psychiatric disorders interpret their diagnoses as an insult, and believe that the doctor is acting malevolently to denigrate them.
This is very common in paranoid personality disorder and delusional personality disorder, and we already have ample evidence of these disorders in Meyer.
This assertion by Meyer that I am simply insulting him, rather than making objective observations, is yet further confirmation of his multitudinous psychiatric disorders.
Objective clinical observations? You’re just parroting words you don’t understand, and unabashedly calling it intelligence. That’s adorable.
Meyer continues to launch insults, thus confirming that he has not yet accepted his psychiatric disorders.
He believes that I am acting maliciously to disparage him as part of a conspiracy against him, and his response is always to launch insults.
This is the typical reaction of those with paranoid personality disorder.
The more he insults me, the more he confirms his paranoid thinking and the more deeply he becomes immersed in his paranoia.
This is most unfortunate.
Undoubtedly he will answer this comment with another tirade of insults.
“Meyer continues to launch insults.”
If pointing out facts counts as ‘launching insults,’ then I’m guilty of precision.
Meyer appears to believe that he is pointing out facts, when in reality he is simply repeating false information that he believes to true.
This psychological defect is known as the illusory truth effect.
Individuals under the influence of this effect believe something to be true simply because it has been repeatedly stated, even though it is obviously false.
In Meyer’s case this is no doubt related to his obsessive-compulsive disorder where his obsessive repetition of insults leads him to believe he is instead stating facts.
No need to waste time. To Sigmund: “Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!”
S. Meyer, sorry that you haven’t anything better to do just now.
David, I like observing the human mouse.
Sigmund FRAUD posted “As I have noted numerous times, Meyer is a veritable cornucopia of psychiatric disorders and psychological defects.”
Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!
Sigmund Freud, the opposite of our Sigmund FRAUD, defined the emotional pathology that Sigmund FRAUD puts on public display:
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.
Meyer continues to submit to his full blown obsessive-compulsive disorder.
He obsessively re-posts the same comments from Anonymous. He clearly cannot control himself. This is the third time he has posted the same comment.
Clearly he is desperately seeking further support and social reassurance from Anonymous in an attempt to satisfy his dependent personality disorder.
You are a bore who lacks imagination and hasn’t stopped repeating himself. Anonymous had class. You should learn from him.
Meyer continues to appeal to his friend Anonymous with ingratiating compliments, in an attempt to gain further reassurance and social acceptance.
At the moment his dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder are competing for control of his id.
Sigmund, it appears you like Anonymous’s comment, so I’ll play it again
‘Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!
Sigmund Freud, the opposite of our Sigmund FRAUD, defined the emotional pathology that Sigmund FRAUD puts on public display:’
Fascinating obsessive behavior.
If I am such a bore, you really should ignore me.
I strongly suggest that you completely ignore from now on.
Any sane person would have ignored me long ago.
But of course you can’t ignore me because of your obsessive-compulsive disorder.
So let’s do a little experiment to see if I am right about your obsessive-compulsive disorder. Why don’t you try to ignore this comment. If you are able to summon the will power to ignore me, then this will obviously cast doubt on my diagnosis.
However, if you respond to this post in any way, then we can safely assume that I am correct.
“If I’m such a bore, you really should ignore me.”
In my youth, I studied behavioral science and worked with mice. These days, when there’s little to do, I work with people whose brains are simpler than the mice ever were.
I knew you would respond.
The results of our little experiment have now confirmed your obsessive-compulsive disorder, just as I predicted.
Who are these people you work with whose brains are simpler than mice ???
You must be employed in some very menial, low level position where, as you say, you have very little to do.
Or perhaps you are confined in an institution somewhere for your own protection, and the protection of others.
Predictably, the Fraud replies, “I knew you would respond,” congratulating himself on having provoked me. He imagines this proves his brilliance. It doesn’t. It merely confirms he’s an idiot with a tired repertoire.
When he asks, “Who are these people you work with whose brains are simpler than mice?” I suppose I should thank The Fraud for volunteering. I only did behavioral research in my youth, but it’s nice to relive old times with a mouse in human form.
As we see here, Meyer has been provoked into responding, thus confirming his obsessive-compulsive disorder.
He now engages in reactive aggression with yet more of his typical insults.
Reactive aggression, while not a psychiatric diagnosis in and of itself, is a symptom of many mental health disorders.
Reactive aggression is a symptom of psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, and intermittent explosive disorder to name but a few.
It manifests as emotional, impulsive outbursts of hostile behavior directed at perceived threats. He clearly perceives me as a threat.
It is found as a symptom in many of the psychiatric disorders that involve abnormalities of impulse control as in those disorders listed above.
Thus we have yet further confirmation of Meyer’s many psychiatric disorders.
I believe that entire textbooks will be written to document the psychiatric pathologies of this unfortunate individual.
Shucks. With the way you keep repeating yourself and taking wrong turns, the mouse would win every time.
Note how Meyer is now using informal language and lighthearted comments.
Groups of people tend to use more informal and lighthearted language to signal an identity in common with the group. It is part of the bonding that occurs within the group.
It can also be sign of transference, the phenomenon whereby the psychiatric patient begins to open up and form a therapeutic bond with his therapist.
This is a vital first step in treatment and recovery.
This is a very good sign that Meyer may be beginning to come to terms with, and accept, his many psychiatric disorders.
Get it straight. With all your meaningless rhetoric, you’re not the mouse that roared, but the mouse that bored.
S. Meyer — I suggest that you just ignore him.
Thank you, David. That’s always an option, but watching him repeat words he doesn’t understand is just too entertaining. And there’s a certain poetry to it. The mouse that roared, the mouse that snored, and the mouse that bored. That’s our friend, Sigmund Fraud.
If I am so boring, then why do you persist in interacting with me??
This is not normal behavior. This is classic obsessive compulsive disorder.
I highly recommend that you stop responding to me and completely ignore me !!!!
Don’t you have anything better to do than persistently engage with someone you find boring ??
Why don’t you spend more time with your delightful wife, the super secret spy agent ??
I’m sure she would appreciate your spending more time with her, rather than wasting your time here with me.
If you truly believe I’m obsessive, then you must be thrilled. I’m validating your latest fantasy.
With his response to David Benson, we see Meyer’s dependent personality disorder come to the fore once again.
His obsequious and patronizing thanks to David is classic dependent personality disorder.
His servile appeal to David is designed to satisfy his need for reassurance and social acceptance from the group to which he wishes to belong.
David helps Meyer overcome his feelings of inferiority, and in return Meyer offers ingratiating, excessive gratitude.
Remarkable !!!
Straight out of the textbook.
Ah yes, another textbook diagnosis from Doctor Fraud. Same chapter. Same paragraph. Same tired words.
I don’t “BELIEVE” you are obsessive.
I “KNOW” with certainty that you are obsessive.
The fact that you continue to interact with me, despite my appeals to completely ignore me, is proof positive of this assertion.
You are compelled to respond to me in some way after every comment I make.
I would like nothing better than to be ignored by you.
Once again, I suggest that you completely and utterly ignore me !!!
Stop responding to my comments !!!
Sigmund Fraud, you sound shrill. Take your pill and chase your cheese if you will.
I am beginning to consider narcissistic personality disorder as yet another in the long list of Meyer’s many psychiatric disorders.
He persists in responding to my comments, despite my pleas to completely and utterly ignore me.
Clearly he hopes that I will give up, and he will have the last word in this interaction.
This psychological need to have the “last word” is one of the defining features of narcissistic personality disorder.
These individuals have a grandiose sense of their own self-importance. In conversations they tend to perseverate until they get the “last word”. This gives them a sense of victory and superiority over their opponent, and feeds their insatiable desire to prove that they are always right.
Classic narcissistic personality disorder !!!
You sound like the frustrated mouse you are, unable to find his way through the maze.
Meyer’s perseveration with the mouse analogy/insult, brings his obsessive-compulsive disorder back into focus.
After promulgating this ideation he is totally unable to let it go. This is typical obsessive and compulsive behavior.
We also see a continuation of his narcissistic personality disorder, wherein he is completely determined to have the last word and so claim “victory” to satisfy his uncontrollable urge to prove that he is right. His desperate perseveration with the same mouse analogy is a vain attempt to have the last word. His obsessions do not allow him to change to a different insult, and his narcissism forces him to continue the ideation.
Truly a complex set of disorders that will be almost impossible to unravel.
Repeat much? You’re like a labrador. He will get the ball all day, but doesn’t have the slightest idea of what he is doing.
Note that Meyer has now moved on from his perseveration with the murine insults.
He now resorts to canine based insults. Lets see how often he repeats this theme.
However, we also note that Meyer is compelled by his narcissistic personality disorder to have the “last word” in this interaction. He believes that this will signal his victory and fulfill his insatiable psychological need to prove that he is superior and always correct.
Again, I suggest that you completely and utterly ignore me.
But unfortunately your complex array of personality disorders compels you to continue to respond.
Let’s hear a repeat performance. You function just like a mouse.
Here we unfortunately note that Meyer has reverted to his obsession with murine insults.
I had hoped that his use of a canine insult indicated that he had let go of the murine insults.
Unfortunately his murine obsession is extremely strong and he is unable to resist it.
We also note that Meyer continues to respond to my comments, while simultaneously declaring that I am boring. The fact that he persists in responding to boring comments speaks to his profound narcissistic personality disorder. Despite being bored by my comments he continues to respond because his narcissistic disorder compels him to have the last word. This is Meyer’s only source of self-worth. He believes that he must defeat me by having the last word in our little conversation.
Once again, I implore you to stop responding to my boring comments.
Please feel free to completely and utterly ignore me.
Oh, Fraud in the blog-house,
You squeak and you squeal,
Repeating your jargon
With psychotic appeal.
You warn and you whimper,
You pout and you plead,
Yet chase your own tail
At obsessive-mouse speed.
So lecture away, Doctor,
And gnaw on your word.
For nothing is duller
Than a Fraud undeterred.
And round goes the mouse,
Still lost in his craze,
Forever confused
By his own little maze.
Fascinatingly abnormal behavior here by Meyer.
It is now completely apparent that he is being driven by his narcissistic personality disorder to continue responding to me despite his protestations that I am boring. He is driven to have the last word because this is the only way he can satisfy his uncontrollable urge to dominate me.
Why do we come to this conclusion ???
Because he responded to my previous comment within minutes, even after a period of several hours had elapsed between his previous comment and my reply.
Not only that, he responded with a nice little poem that must have taken some time to compose, certainly more than a few minutes. We can conclude from this that Meyer is now spending all his time in anxious anticipation of my next comment, and he prepares his responses ahead of time. I can imagine him sitting at his keyboard desperately refreshing the screen in order to catch my comments as soon as they are made. This is highly abnormal obsessive behavior.
Clearly Meyer has WAAAAAAAY to much time on his hands to be able to engage in this behavior.
I am very seriously considering the very real possibility that Meyer actually is confined somewhere in an institution for his own protection.
Lets see how long it takes Meyer to respond to this comment, and whether he has already prepared a response.
Sigmund Fraud: the mouse on a Mobius strip, bragging he’s found the exit.
No poem prepared ahead of time for Meyer’s latest comment, but he still responded within minutes indicating that he continues to obsessively monitor the comments in case I get the last word.
As another little experiment, I have deliberately delayed responding to Meyer until the following day.
Lets see if he is still obsessively monitoring this blog for my comments.
If he responds to this comment we can conclude that his narcissistic personality drives him to continue monitoring my comments to ensure that he always get the last word. As I have noted previously the sense of victory that Meyer gets from this is his only source of validation and self-worth.
Sigmund Fraud, you call it a delay, but it’s really a reschedule. You move when I move. I run the experiment. You chase the cheese.
Remarkable !!!
Meyer has previously responded within minutes of my comments. Now after a delay until the next day he still responds, but in a little over an hour. Clearly he continues to obsessively monitor for my comments in case I get the last word. This is classic obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Note also that he is compelled to proclaim that he “runs the experiment”. This again speaks to his obsessive need for control as a consequence of his OCD and narcissistic disorder.
The observation that he is able to respond to my comments so rapidly also adds further evidence to suggest that Meyer is not a contributing member of society, but is more likely to be an involuntary inmate of an institution where he is being treated for his diverse psychiatric disorders. He appears to spend his entire day at his keyboard anxiously and obsessively anticipating my next comment.
The mouse thinks the sun revolves around the earth, and he’s the center.
We note here that Meyer continues his obsessive perseveration with the murine ideation.
This is an example of very high order perseveration. He simply cannot relinquish the ideation, and repeats it over and over again.
As this extended therapy session continues, we also note the clear symptom of alogia, or paucity of speech. Alogia manifests as speech patterns that are almost totally devoid of both content and meaning. The speech involves short terse statements of very few words that also have very little obvious meaning except to the patient. Alogia is a consequence of frontal lobe dysfunction, and is most common in schizophrenia, the various schizoid personality disorder types and bipolar disorder.
Meyer’s comments are very short, terse statements that are essentially devoid of meaning to an outside observer, but they apparently have meaning for him. This confirms the symptom of alogia which is a feature of most of his diverse psychiatric disorders.
The leftist mouse, Sigmund Fraud, now has four left feet; trapped in his maze of theories, forever turning left and calling it enlightenment. Still chasing the cheese, he never notices it’s already been redistributed to everyone else.
Here we note that Meyer persists with his high order perseveration with the murine ideation, but with the addition of political overtones.
This is a very interesting development that gives us further insights into his many psychiatric pathologies.
Affective political polarization, while not a defined disorder in and of itself, is a set of symptoms that have been shown to have a high correlation with a number of psychiatric disorders.
Affective political polarization encompasses the feelings of hostility and animus that people have towards members of the opposite party, based not on policy differences, but on emotional and cult like tribal feelings of animosity. There are numerous studies linking affective political polarization to disorders such as narcissistic personality disorder, major depression and anxiety disorders.
We have already confirmed narcissistic personality disorder as a diagnosis in Meyer’s case, so it is hardly surprising that we now see elements of affective political polarization.
Trapped in the maze with four left feet, the mouse finally turned to drugs, and now we see the results: hallucinations and delusions of grandeur. Sigmund Fraud actually thinks he’s Sigmund Freud.
Here we note that Meyer is continuing with his high order perseveration with the murine ideation, but now we note the addition of psychological projection.
Psychological projection is one of the defining features of narcissistic personality disorder.
As we know, these patients have a grandiose sense of self-importance, delusions of grandeur, and are preoccupied with beliefs that they are “special” and deserve privileges that are not available to other lesser individuals. They overestimate their own abilities and demand that others show excessive admiration for their supposed abilities.
However, they also have very fragile self-esteem, and react very poorly to any criticism, especially if it is directed at their narcissistic tendencies. Subconsciously they are actually aware of their own shortcomings, but they suppress this awareness. When challenged they lash out with projection whereby they attribute their own psychological deficiencies onto the individual who challenges them. In this case Meyer projects his delusions of grandeur onto me.
Generally speaking, there are 2 types of projection, complementary projection and attributive projection. Complementary projection is the projection of traits that are considered desirable and in accordance with the individuals inflated sense of worth, but this is quite rare.
The most common form of projection is attributive, whereby the individual projects his undesirable traits onto others, accusing others of the very psychological problems that afflict themselves. This is the much more common form of projection and is typically seen in narcissistic personality disorder.
We see this in Meyer’s projection of his own delusions of grandeur onto me.
Said by another about Signumd Fraud.
“Pathological lying while hoping to hide in plain sight… Well, this Democrat Internet Licensed Psychiatrist did get their choice of surname right!
Sigmund Freud, the opposite of our Sigmund FRAUD, defined the emotional pathology that Sigmund FRAUD puts on public display:”
S.M.
Here we note that Meyer has abandoned, for now at least, his murine ideation, but his dependent personality disorder now comes into sharper focus.
As we discussed previously, these individuals with dependent personality disorder tend to rely heavily on others for support and actively seek reassurance that they are normal. They tend to be excessively sensitive to criticism and make frequent, overt appeals to others for approval and social acceptance. When someone reassures them of their normalcy they usually become overly patronizing and thankful to that person. This clinging behavior to those who “take care of them” is one of the most common findings in dependent personality disorder.
Driven by his dependent personality disorder Meyer is desperately attempting to rally further support from others. His feelings of inadequacy compel him to seek help from others to fight his battles for him.
Meyer continues his appeal for support from Anonymous who previously attacked me. Once again he directly quotes the attack by Anonymous in a desperate attempt to curry favor and induce Anonymous to come to his rescue once again. This “clinging” behavior is typical of dependent personality disorder.
As a footnote, I observe that Meyer has chosen to post his latest comment as Anonymous, while simply putting his initials in the comment. This may be an attempt to obscure his comment in such a way that I fail to notice it, and fail to respond, thus giving him the “last word” in our little conversation.
As we have previously noted, this is consistent with Meyer’s narcissistic personality disorder.
These individuals have a grandiose sense of their own self-importance. In conversations they tend to perseverate until they get the “last word”. This gives them a sense of victory and superiority over their opponent, and feeds their insatiable desire to prove that they are always right.
Once again, we marvel at the extensive manifestations of this unfortunate individual’s multiple psychiatric disorders.
“As a footnote, I observe that Meyer has chosen to post his latest comment as Anonymous, while simply putting his initials in the comment. This may be an attempt to obscure his comment in such a way that I fail to notice it, and fail to respond, thus giving him the ‘last word’ in our little conversation.”
I used the initials to alert you that it was me; I don’t give your intelligence enough credit to figure that out, even though it’s right at the bottom of a thread no one reads. The idea that I was trying to “obscure” my name says more about how you think than about what I did.
You often assume concealment where there’s only simplicity. A steadier mind might have noticed this exchange could go on forever. I write only a line or two, and typing my full name each time is tedious, especially when it takes longer to skim your word maze than to make a point
You confuse length with depth and suspicion with perception. It is easy to tell you’ve never been trained in what you’re trying to imitate. You collect big words the way some people collect trivia, without knowing how to use them. Observation requires patience, not projection. But that’s all right, keep at it. In time, you might even start to notice what you’ve been revealing all along.
Consider the following facts.
Meyer constantly whines that I am boring.
Meyer complains that it is tedious to respond to me.
Meyer constantly bombards me with infantile insults.
And yet Meyer continues to respond to me !!!!
Does this sound like a sane and rational individual?
He obsessively responds to someone he denigrates and considers to be boring, and then complains that it is tedious to respond to me.
THEN WHY DO YOU BOTHER TO RESPOND ??????
This is highly abnormal behavior, obvious even to a casual observer, let alone a professional. Earlier David Benson urged you to ignore me. You should take his advice and ignore me.
But obviously you are unable to ignore me. The more you respond, the more obvious it becomes that you are unbalanced. You are not achieving anything other than proving how mentally unstable you really are. The only explanation for this behavior is mental illness that compels you try to have the “last word” and thus achieve some sort of victory to satisfy your highly abnormal and egotistical sense of self-importance.
Once again, I strongly urge you to completely and utterly ignore me, stop responding to me, and seek help !!!!
Your use of psychological terms is illiterate and sophomoric, resembling a student who memorized terminology without ever understanding it. There’s no integration, no depth; only repetition and fragments copied from an online glossary. An unoriginal mind trying to imitate knowledge.
Firstly, why are you bothering with the tedious effort of continuing to respond to someone you find boring.
Surely you have something better to do rather than waste your time here with me.
Secondly, you know perfectly well that I speak from training and experience. I am not simply spouting terminology that I found online. I have given discursive discussions and explanations of your psychiatric disorders. Indeed, you have complained about the length of my comments.
And you also know that my lengthy discussions are original. You have undoubtedly used Google to search for the text of my comments in an effort to prove that I have simply copied and pasted from somewhere. When you failed to find the text of my comments anywhere, you came to the realization that I know what I am talking about.
I repeat.
PLEASE STOP RESPONDING TO ME.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TOTALLY IGNORE ME.
A trained mind doesn’t need to remind others of its credentials every few sentences. Nor does it confuse verbosity with originality.
Your obsessive psychiatric pathologies are obvious to even the most casual observer.
You say I am boring, and that it is tedious to respond to me, and yet you continue to do so.
This is not normal behavior.
Perhaps you can answer a simple question.
Why are you bothering to waste time responding to someone you find boring and tedious ?
“Your obsessive psychiatric pathologies are obvious to even the most casual observer.”
You don’t even pass for a casual observer. You lack common sense.
Answer the question
Why?
Answer the question.
Typical lefty. Heil Sigmund!!! LOL The mouse with four left feet can’t control himself.
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding
In the past, I experimented with mice, and now with a lefty, four-footed Mouse. So far, the results are clear: mice learn; the lefty, four-footed Mouse doesn’t.
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding.
From your mother’s basement, do you yell at her and tell her what to do?
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding..
Tell that to your mom.
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding…
Did you talk to your mommie?
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding….
Why do you obsessively respond to someone you find tedious and boring ??
“Why do you”
Ask your mother.
Either answer the question, or please ignore me and stop responding….
Why do you obsessively respond to someone you find tedious and boring ??
Please ignore me and stop responding
Stop whining. An amateur psychologist would be astounded at your egotistical stupidity.
Please ignore me and stop responding.
Along with being a terrible wannabe psychologist, you also fall short on common sense.
Please ignore me and stop responding..
Your plea to be ignored while still responding says everything. You argue with what **you need attention from** and **call it indifference**. The contradiction explains itself. Crazy.
I knew you would be incapable of resisting the urge to respond in order to get the “last word”.
It will be interesting to see if you are still obsessively checking to see if I have made another comment after 3 days of silence.
If you respond to this, then that will be conclusive evidence of your obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Sigmund, you are projecting your feelings about yourself onto other people, meaning me. You wrote this note to either engage or enrage me; I honestly cannot tell which. The attempt is laughable and no different from your usual posts and persona.
What you do not seem to understand is that I do not go looking for your comments, nor do I spend time thinking about your antics. This was “thrust” by you into my email, and I got a quick laugh at your expense. You truly do not see how foolish you sound.
There you were again in all your glorious ignorance, unable to let go. You proved that to the world. *You cannot let go*, you hate being forgotten, and you will get the last word even if it costs you what little pride you have. You are a nutcase, so when you are done arguing with your mirror, let me know if you still see me in it.
How you noticed my comment is irrelevant.
The point is that you are compelled by your psychiatric disorders to respond to someone you repeatedly describe as boring and tedious.
This is highly abnormal behavior by any measure.
Individuals with dependent personality disorder are often reluctant to break off engagement with other people, even when they feel that the other person is boring. They have an overwhelming fear of abandonment and rejection and are compelled to continue the engagement. Their greatest fear is a loss of a connection with someone, even if they believe that connection is with a boring person. The fear of abandonment overwhelms their ability to discern whether the relationship serves no useful purpose. In your case you are aware at some level that you find me boring and tedious and yet you persist in prolonging the engagement.
That is the pathology of your disorder in a nutshell.
Your appetite for humiliation is baffling, but if you insist on it, consider yourself fed.
ano
We are not interested in participating in pathetic victimhood.
_______________________
Yet, you are here. How odd.
Kansas Elder, what is wrong with “antiJew”? Too blunt?
Get AIPAC out of our government! Register as foreign agents and quit allowing Israel to buy control of our governments corruptocrats. That doesn’t mean we hate jews or want them dead, it means stay in their own lane!
“Of course theArabs are a Semitic peoples.”
Of course, one of the Democrats’ New Hitler Youth Movement, David B. Benson comes up with his best argument: you are misusing “antisemite” to describe his fellow travellers when you describe the genocidal murdering Arab Hamas terrorists in Gaza that Democrats have put so much political currency into supporting.
We can decide whether or not that’s a piss-poor semantic argument while dealing with them using the 5.56 solution while they continue holding and using their weapons of terrorism. After all, Hamas don’t call themselves Semites as Benson demands they be called – they want to be called “Palestinians”.
We do have to give Benson props for recognizing that they’re Arabs – rather than Yasser Arafat’s deliberately misleading fictional name for his fellow Arabs: “Palestinians”.
oldman, if any of those other countries were being handed $4 Billion a year in the top shelf military hardware and were using it to kill children by the tens of thousands, the criticisms of them would also be harsh. Pull all the handouts from Israel and, in a short time, no one will care what the Israelis do.
It’s also not a Jewish problem, it’s that Zionists use Judaism as a cover to gain sympathy from the West while performing a low-speed ethnic cleansing via torture and murder of those who have roots going much farther back than the wave of European Jews that were displaced there after WWII, when Britain told the Arabs to move or die. The Zionists started with the bombings of Arab markets. and have continued to expand their attacks ever since.
The original locals see no difference between Israel now and all the other Western colonizers who did similar things to them and have been replaced with Western Zionists.
History shows the conservatives in the US turned away boats filled with Jewish refugees prior to WWII, trying to escape death. This is the conservative way. Conservatives refused to allow Jewish students into many of the top Universities. Not until Zionists started killing Arabs did conservatives accept them as allies. It was touchy at first as the Zionists initially cozied up to the Russians.
You sound like the drunk.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then, and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
The communist American welfare state must be torn down and privatized.
Unions are criminal organizations that must be deemed illegal. They possess no leverage. They resort to actionable lawlessness and criminal acts such as breach of contract, trespass, harassment, stalking, vandalism, property damage, bodily injury, etc. No free enterprise or public department should ever enter into a contract with unions. Regarding private property, only the owner may “claim and exercise” dominion. Regarding public property, only elected officials may “claim and exercise” dominion. Labor is effort that all people expend and exert and is not limited to the poor and unskilled. Labor laws and the Labor Department are invalid and illegitimate and must be rescinded and abrogated. Americans are free to establish an enterprise, accept or reject employment, or persist on independent wealth. All Americans—entrepreneurs, professionals, and workers—are free to make decisions, live their lives, and engage in “the pursuit of happiness.” Government has no power to impose bias or favor one over another with legislation.
The communist American welfare state must be torn down and privatized.
Re “Unions are criminal organizations…”
Your comment serves as a wonderful ‘Reverse Communist Manifesto’
Pin it to a bulletin board or a door. Who knows? It might change the world.
The intellectual rigidity of the leftwing professoriat, especially in the humanities and social sciences, contributes to the collapse of interest in their fields, which have traditionally been an escape hatch for low-performing students. Either their numbers will dwindle into significance, like the numbers in cheerleading majors like gender studies and ethnic studies, or they will be replaced by alternative programs on campus or on the internet. The adaptability of academe is sometimes expressed through the creation of alternative departments: e.g., Math Science or Computer Science when the Math Department lost interest in educating anyone other than pure mathematicians. With its depth of wealth, the university can tolerate many redundancies. Students who make poor choices, however, will have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
. . . cheerleading majors like gender studies and ethnic studies . . .
Any major ending in the word ‘studies’ is worthless. You can take that to the bank.
Todd Wolfson hyperbole “…educating our members on this concept of scholasticide.”
Correction:
Todd Jackal-son Bolshevism and his MARXIST SCHOLAS-TRINATION
The American fertility rate is in a “death spiral”; more Americans die than are born.
What is the duty of American women to their nation?
Not to worry, soon there will be no Americans, and soon there will be no American nation.
Women are really, really smart, smarter than those pesky men, that’s for sure, huh?
Professor Turley. I enjoy you column although I sometimes disagree with your point of view (not in the case of this column). You could do many of your readers a favor by disallowing any comment that does not carry the full senders name – “anonymous” and other obvious pseudonyms. If the person is not brave enough to sign their comments, then you already know more than enough about their character.
Chris, AFAIK Professor Turley does not read this blog. You could email your statement to him. I have done much the same.
See the Civility statement at the top of the page for his email address.
Professor Turley’s website is his to decide how it works.
That’s called individualism.
who the hell are you, Chris Milton-Hall, to gatekeep the 1st amendment?
The good news is you can say what you want, Chris Milton-Hall.
But try not limiting what others say just because you are ‘right about it’.
Anonymous says that the AAUP is just a fringe organization. She could have google it before she flapped her lip. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) had approximately 44,000 to 45,000 members as of June 2022. Think about that. 45,000 leftist Professors fanning out across America according to Anonymous have no influence at all. A dedicated narcissist thinks that no one but her can find out the truth. This is too easy.
45,000 members spread over 4,000 colleges is an average of 11 members per college.
There are about 1.5 million teaching faculty, meaning AAUP are about 3%
Did you read what Estovir said???
At his university there are 170 members among a faculty of 3,200.
He agrees that AAUP is an irrelevant organization.
What you’r not getting is that university Bolsevism has been steadily and perniciously on the increase. Also, there are many non-members that would trend-to-agree with Wofson, but don’t have the time or resources to pursue. I would say that the numbers are appreciably higher [including AAUP sympathizers], regardless of what the esteemed Estovir says.
Dianna Bec
You have absolutely no evidence for anything you say. You are simply making stuff up and engaging in wishful thinking.
It is truly astounding that you discount what Estovir says even though he is a fellow cultist.
Your thinking is rigidly confined by MAGA dogma.
You are not willing to listen to Estovir, a fellow MAGA cultist, when he says something that does not comport with your beliefs or the beliefs of the cult.
This is classic cult behavior, where any cult member, like Estovir, who strays from the dogma is immediately discounted and deemed to be wrong.
Having been in academia for many years, and watched the skills of general intelligence and morality of scholarship go down the tubes, I have plenty of empirical evidence, thus valid opinion.
What you don’t understand, being a professional in trolling rather than critical-thinking, is that true scholars like Estovir and me, can (AND DO) have civil disagreements, which do not result in your kind of hate and doxxing. Sorry, you lose.
So you believe that Estovir is wrong when he says AAUP is irrelevant ??
There’s a word for you, Anon: duplicitous. While you stir the pot like a paid-troller with your reptilian brain, what those of us with a functioning neocortex know is that we can discuss and even disagree without insult and endless hyperbole.
The fact is, Estovir is a very fine thinker [maga or no maga], but he is not the end-all and be-all of academic input, here. He is right in what he knows about his own institution, and I am right in what I know about mine, but there is much more to the picture; a good scholar will guess at the nature and magnitude of certain phenomena, and hypothesize beyond what is measured. This called the scientific method, not that you know anything about it, but it leads to further inquiry and discernment, not insults:
we can civilly disagree about how many AAUP sympathizers are beyond the reported statistics, thus the unmeasured statistics, whether there is an expanded number, and whether it is relevant or not: that’s what scholarship is about; disagreements do not lead to character assassinations [which you are hoping to extract from me, concerning Estovir].
Listen, child, discursive activity is not in your realm. You have received your demerits. Now go away.
Dianna Bec
Scholars do indeed guess at the nature of certain phenomena and formulate a hypothesis which must be testable and falsifiable.
However they do so based on FACTS and the current understanding of those facts as the relate to the phenomenon in question. This is indeed the scientific method with which I am deeply familiar (ask me how I am familiar).
They do not simply make wild guesses and make up facts to suit their preferred outcome.
The facts are that there are only 45,000 AAUP members spread across 4,000 colleges. This leads to the conclusion that the AAUP is a tiny irrelevant group as Estovir correctly states. From his own experience he has concluded that AAUP is irrelevant.
If you want to persuade someone that this is false, then you need to provide some factual evidence.
If you believe that there are “many AAUP sympathizers beyond the reported statistics, thus the unmeasured statistics”, then the burden is on you to provide some factual evidence to this effect. Beliefs and wild guesses are not facts. Just because you want this to be true does not make it true.
If I told you that I believe there are little green men living on the moon, you would immediately demand evidence.
You clearly do not understand the scientific method which requires any hypothesis to be testable and falsifiable.
Clearly you are not a scholar.
“So you believe that Estovir is wrong when he says AAUP is irrelevant ??”
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by Democrats in online forums and podcasts
“You have absolutely no evidence for anything you say. You are simply making stuff up and engaging in wishful thinking.”
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by the perpetrator of those they’re attempting to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
Anonymous, you tell us that there are 170 members of AAUP out of 3,200 faculty but you don’t tell us how many Professors there are at the university. Liars figure. So far you haven’t answered my question but instead you continue to deflect. I ask you again. Do you support people who put Jewish babies in ovens. This question is tantamount to the point of the post but you continue to deflect from the main question. By not answering we must assume that you do indeed support cooking Jewish babies. Why will you not say what you support or do not support? You are exposed.
Thinkitthrough
Are you paying any attention at all ?????
Those numbers of 170 AAUP members out a faculty of 3,200 were given by Estovir for his college, University of Virginia.
Those numbers are a direct quote from Estovir’s comment at 12:06pm.
I am simply quoting Estovir.
So are you calling Estovir a liar ????
Probably so, since this is always what happens in cults when a member steps out of line and disagrees with the cult dogma.
Estovir is a naive political commenter who professes to be an expert by cherry-picking published material.
What he seems to not understand is the effort by Leftists to INFILTRATE higher education, then ostracize those not in agreement.
Here’s an example:
“I gave up my academic freedom when I was interviewed to teach history at Yeshiva University in the late 1980s…I was asked, ‘Are you a Marxist?’ The question was inappropriate, but if I wanted the only full-time tenure-track opening in my field in New York City for several years, I would have to deal with my interlocutors’ real question: ‘Are you a radical who might make trouble on campus?’ I fudged the answer. https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues/fall-2023/political-repression-and-aaup-1915-present
The overwhelming Left-wing CONTROL of academia should be an alarm to all of us.
“45,000 members spread over 4,000 colleges is an average of 11 members per college.”
Behold the hostile keyboard warrior flaunting his ignorance (yet again).
AAUP is affiliated with AFT, which has some *1.7 million* members.
Sam
This has to be the stupidest comment of all time.
Just because AAUP is affiliated with AFT does not make them a part of AFT. They are entirely separate entities.
The main reason that AAUP “affiliates” with the much larger AFT is to take advantage of AFT benefits.
They get access to group health insurance and life insurance.
They get access to mortgage discounts, and banking discounts, and credit card discounts, and legal services discounts.
They get discounts on ATT cell phone service, and travel services, and car rental.
Their children are eligible for college scholarships sponsored by AFT.
AAUP is such a tiny, insignificant organization that they would never be able to offer such benefits.
Their affiliation with AFT has no relevance to their agenda at colleges.
And the fact that the vast majority of professors are not members of AAUP suggests that the AAUP agenda is not in line with that of the vast majority of professors.
Try to use some common sense.
“They are entirely separate entities.”
Someone doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “affiliated:”
“an organization that is *officially connected* with or *controlled by* another, usually larger, organization” (emphases added)
“Their affiliation with AFT has no relevance to their agenda at colleges.”
Pure ignorance or lying (yet again).
The two groups in fact have numerous joint ventures on college campuses. (Look it up yourself. Not that it’ll do any good.)
looking at it another way 45,000 professors teaching an average of 100 students each means that they are reaching 4.5 million students annually, which is roughly 25% of the student enrollment in the US
The proud boys and oath keepers probably have a couple thousand each so they are far more irrelevant, but the left loves to focus on them as if they were significant influence on politics
A dedicated narcissist thinks that no one but [she] can find out the truth. This is too easy.
“One notable element was how Wolfson explained the new foreign policy of the AAUP”
Article 1 of AAUP’s Constitution defines the organization’s purpose which is to “increase the usefulness and advance the standards, ideals, and welfare of the profession.” Professors are very creative but how do they twist the purpose into one that promotes a foreign policy?
Obviously members support the AAUP’s policy positions whether constitutional or unconstitutional. Otherwise, as in other professional societies (e.g., AMA) members leave. The fact that this has not happened is consistent with the reported liberal bias that permeates higher education in the U.S.
Q. – “Professors are very creative but how do they twist the purpose into one that promotes a foreign policy?”
A. – Call anything NEO in academia, and suddenly you have a new area of study, and a newly respected platform for any kind of pseudo-scientific or pseudo-political claim. Academia is the “Beowulf cluster” of perverse and manipulative deceit, clothed in the robes of pomp and circumstance.
Yes, the AAUP has become a disappointment. I gave up my membership long before retiring,
AAUP is irrelevant. To wit…the University of Virginia AAUP chapter released a memo 10 August 2025 stating
The University of Virginia (UVA) Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) represents over 170 faculty members and advocates for academic freedom and shared governance across our institution.
https://aaup-uva.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Letter_of__No_Confidence_08102025_Final-1.pdf
Let us assume there are 100 faculty members at UVA, which is being generous considering “advocates” have nothing to lose as members, unlike faculty. UVA is the flagship university of Virginia, with one of the two largest endowments of all American universities. There are over 3200 full time faculty (instructional staffs/postsecondary teachers) at UVA.
https://www.virginia.edu/facts-figures/
(100 / 3200) * 100 = 3.125%. If we say there are 200 faculty (with no “advocates for academic freedom and shared governance”) the new quotient is 6.25%.
Their voices are less popular than Democrats who, per Newsweek, “only 8 percent of registered voters said they view the Democratic Party “very favorably,”
newsweek.com/democratic-party-approval-rating-hits-30-year-low-wsj-poll-2104572
The AAUP is irrelevant just like Democrats/MSM.
Estovir
You are exactly correct.
The AAUP is a fringe organization with minimal representation on college campuses.
Turley is a college professor himself, and he knows full well that AAUP represents an almost negligible number of professors.
So why is Turley so disingenuously intent on misleading his cult followers here that the AAUP is some monolithic entity representing the views of all college professors.
Obviously, this piece is just a craven attempt to agitate the MAGA mob by throwing them some red meat.
Just like Pavlov’s dogs they come running, slobbering and salivating when he rings the bell.
“. . . AAUP represents an almost negligible number of professors.”
You either do not understand how academia functions, or you are intentionally obfuscating.
It is the few — the pot banger, race/gender/class — activist faculty who control academia. The others focus on their work or are too cowardly to get involved.
As a dramatic illustration of the power they wield and the destruction they cause — see the Duke University lacrosse hoax.
Sam
Unfortunately you are the one who has no understanding about how academia functions.
As Estovir says, AAUP is an irrelevant fringe organization that is generally ignored by the vast number of college professors.
The idea that that such a small splinter group can control ANYTHING is absurd.
This idea only exists in the minds of MAGA cultists.
“Unfortunately you are the one who has no understanding about how academia functions.”
My 30 years in academia, including working with the AAUP, says otherwise.
If you really worked with the AAUP, which I doubt, then you must know that they are a negligibly small, irrelevant group just as Estovir and I have explained.
Estovir knows this.
I know this.
But apparently you do not know this, despite “working with the AAUP for 30 years”.
Why don’t you try again.
“working with the AAUP for 30 years”.
The pathologically dishonest and hostile lying about what I wrote. Imagine that.
For those who are *not* pathologically vicious: My work with the AAUP was a project on free speech — right after the 2008 reprint of the Danish cartoons.
“If you really worked with the AAUP, which I doubt, then you must know that they are a negligibly small, irrelevant group just as Estovir and I have explained.”
If you actually had anything to do with the AAUP other than being a groupie: anything but an admission that the AAUP cannot produce a valid reason for why they support HAMAS attempting to complete Hitler’s extermination of all Jews with acts like the Oct 7th butchery.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by the perpetrator of those they’re attempting to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
Anonymous, AAUP a fringe union group with 45,000 members has no influence at all.
Do you ever stop gaslighting. Have you no shame? Never mind I know the answer.
Once again I ask do you support Professors who support people who put Jewish babies in ovens?
Instead of answering the question you deflect to the small size of AAUP and it’s 45,000 members. A simple yes or no answer will do. It should be simple unless you’re just a big cowardly bully with a big mouth. Will you answer the question?!
Thinkitthrough
Why are you deflecting and obfuscating ???
Why are you even arguing with me??
Why aren’t you arguing with Estovir, your fellow MAGA cultist, when he says AAUP is irrelevant ???
He is also saying that a negligibly small number of professors belong to AAUP.
What is wrong with you ???
Maybe you should think it through !!!!
“Why are you deflecting and obfuscating ??? Why are you even arguing with me??”
When Gaslighting fails… swiftly attempt to transition to Sealioning!
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by Democrats in online forums and podcasts
Hey Anonymous, you say that the Professors are of little consequence but they are the ones who are teaching young minds how to think. You keep trying to convince us that they have no influence but anyone who has gone to a university knows how influential they can be. One of us has a stupid argument. Guess who.
You’ve also tried to convince us that ANTIFA is no big deal. The John Brown Gun Clubs (JBGC) are a decentralized network of anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and pro-gun organizations. Inspired by the abolitionist John Brown, these groups practice community defense and mutual aid and are allied with other leftist gun organizations like the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA).
I hear it coming. Next you will say that this group that shot up an ICE facility in Dallas don’t exist either. Your days of flying under the radar will soon be over. You should by your ticket to China while there still cheap.
Doctor Turley. Perhaps you could help clean up the comments section of your column by banning the use of “anonymous” and similar pseudonyms. If the person is not brave enough to sign their name then you already know something about that person’s character.
Anonymous, I wouldn’t expect any less from you (this Anonymous) your TDS (Turley Deranged Syndrome) can’t allow anything else.
While a minority of college professors the number is still large enough and loud minorities always have always advanced movement when there is an indifferent majority.
AAUP’s website mentions a membership of 45,000 members in 2022
The AAUP’s affiliation with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is noted, with the AFT having 1.7 million members, including 148,000 professors.
Those 45000 professors can and do influence millions of students the same way K-12 teachers influence the minds of our children.
His Orwellian statement “ We need to stand up for academic freedom, for freedom of speech, for freedom of assembly for our students so they can protest the war—the genocide, excuse me—that’s taking place in Gaza.” when they are the principal advocates to suppress freedom of speech and intellectual diversity in our schools and universities
So Estovir confirms exactly what I said as Anon at 10:19am.
The AAUP is an irrelevant, fringe organization with almost negligible representation among university professors.
It must really suck when one of your own MAGA cultists like Estovir accidentally confirms that Turley is nothing more than a craven agitator whose sole purpose here is to rile up the MAGA mob with absurdly ridiculous stories that are completely disconnected from reality.
“George Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence”
– NYT
________
Free Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
1000% what a travesty of justice
State matter not Federal
Yep and Tampon Tim sure isn’t going to expose his failures further by having Chauvin set free. The DOJ should examine the case further and determine if Chauvin’s civil rights were violated. Then there would be a federal opportunity to get him justice.
“The Art of the Deal”
Pull a full Lincoln, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, etc.
Or pull a full JFK and deploy the army to force integration.
That was all legal, right?
Turley!! Come demonstrate at NO KINGS with us!!
Unlike you, the professor does not suffer from TDS.
The good professor is NOT a domestic terrorist. Also, as it is well known, those who participate in No Kings are anti-Constitution and against free speech.
Sasha Stone nails it
No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
In their imaginary world, Trump is a king, a dictator, and a fascist when in reality, he’s just the guy they could not destroy or defeat. It’s never been Trump.
https://www.sashastone.com/p/no-kings-the-lunatics-are-running
“Turley!! Come demonstrate at NO KINGS with us!!”
While the Professor still identifies as a Democrat, I doubt he wants to appear at a MORE SOVIET PREMIERS event to put another one in the White House.
Come on Jonathan !
You’ll get a I am Antifa tee shirt signed by George Conway and a brick from the Soro’s kiln to remember it by…
But yet the Jewish community will continue to support “Democrat” candidates and will continue to support education institutions that bar their children from entry. For the benefit of the Blue Bananas who haunt the blog I repeat, there is no “Democrat” party, just a name co-opted by Marxist communist to hide behind.
“But yet the Jewish community will continue to support “Democrat” candidates and will continue to support education institutions that bar their children from entry.”
Margot: is that the same or different from the almost 50% of American women who are overwhelmingly voting for “Democrat” presidents and other candidates that will continue having educational institutions forcing female athletes to compete against male trannies taking their place on women’s teams and places in competitions?
For the Blue Bananas out there: is the minority that is the Jewish community somehow different than the majority of the population that are female, voting for the very same Democrats?
Including in places where there is no significant Jewish population? There’s ALWAYS a significant female population.
The vast majority of American university students, whether they’re straight from high school, a few years after working a job so they won’t have to take out loans, veterans on the GI bill, etc are NOT the Marxist/anti-Semitic fascist rage mobs attempting to crush free speech that the Democrats and media work so hard to convince us are representative of the entire student body.
Students are not a hive mind like Democrats and the legacy mainstream media. Most of them put their heads down, ignore the radical Marxists and anti-Semitics parading while they’re attending classes, and don’t take the bait offered by parasite professors in the activist numbers of the AAUP.
The majority of American students have a specific purpose in spending that time and money to obtain a university degree, and that is a good job and a good career on the basis of that university degree that they invested their time and money to obtain.
Increasingly, the companies and industries those university students looked at as their prospective employers after completing their degree are flat out saying they will not hire any graduates from the worst of the Marxist/fascist/anti-Semitic universities.
The more that happens, the more prospective students of those universities that have a professional goal and the desire for a career are going to notice that while making their choices of where to attend.
We may end up seeing these vicious Marxist and anti-Semitic Democrat activist loons in the AAUP bring free market forces to bear on the universities who are the willing hosts of these parasites.
There is a different current in our deep sea of academic culture here in Texas. Here, the Supreme Court is disenchanted with the liberal American Bar Association, ABA, as the present source of law school accreditation. The Court is now taking input from the Bar and other participants on a plan that puts accreditation in the hands of the Court itself. This is forward looking. All accredited law schools remain for now. Texas has over 95,000 lawyers licensed in the Bar, which is mandatory. That’s one of the biggest bars in the USA. In the second most populist State. Deep red conservative. So, Johnathan’s thesis on the value of academic balance has joined hands with Adam Smith. Only this time Adam’s hand is visible. The market demand of Texas for lawyers is looking the ABA and the AAUP right in the eye and saying “ We demand better supply”.
Academic credentials have been so eroded and diluted over the years that many of these firebrand, non-critical thinkers have become part of academia. No group of supposedly critical thinkers, like university professors, would accept such partisan stances as the AAUP is now taking. In other words, we are where we are because we dumbed-down academic credentials in order to be “diverse” (but liberal!).
Unions are all communist hives nowadays, the veneer has worn off ’em and freedom loving humans demand to think and speak for themselves instead of the enforced ever-evolving socialist narrative full of ‘victims’ and ‘really bad guys’.
There’s just too many smart people for the professors to dumb-down. Sorry, commie!
Like the deep state, the left has now exposed itself, due to TDS, and have now “progressed” into the murderous radicals they always were, due to Trump.
Lame attempts at no-context virtue-shaming have proven ineffective due to “human reasoning” and the commies are at the stage of calling for violence to be enacted through their network of useful idiots. Only those that are SO DUMB that they could be swayed by these absurdities will be accepted now since they had to push out all the reasonable moderates due to their offensive “human reasoning” and daring to slightly think for themselves.
and to think, it took ONE MAN to do it too! Trump saved America from the commies!
Their tap into violent rage is intended and predictable as now all their transparent intentions are laid bare for those with a human brain to see.
THAT’S how feeble communism is.
Professor Turley, a university professor at Georgetown University, needs to be standing up in front of his fellow university professors at Georgetown and every other university he is paid to deliver a speech at, and deliver this exact same message. Doing that, and then demanding his fellow professors renounce these genocidal clown Marxists who inspire the university New Hitler Youth Movement.
Posting it here instead of speaking his truths to his fellow professors is really no different than telling us what we already know, that water is wet.
Professor Turley teaches at George Washington University Law School. Not Georgetown.
Thank you for correcting my error on where he works. I appreciate that, but I cannot edit my post after it is published.
Do you have any argument with what I proposed the Professor do in the remainder of that post?
Seems like a fair question because you only corrected my error on which university he works at.
Apparently you don’t, Wiseoldlawyer. I appreciate that, as well as your correcting me on where he is employed.
Our universities have lost even the veneer of objectivity and scientific curiosity. With exception of (some) hard sciences, they have become a joke. They routinely publish “research” that cannot be reproduced. (FYI, irreproducible scientific research is essentially garbage.) Why we continue to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to support what are essentially leftist vanity projects is beyond me. Research that doesn’t lead to identifiable public benefits or scientific knowledge should rely solely on private funding. Degrees that don’t lead to meaningful employment should be treated as what they are – very expensive hobbies. They certainly shouldn’t receive public subsidies either directly or in the form of government loans. Just saying.
Sadly, these POS university hypocrites get away with it because their students are already at least halfway indoctrinated by high school teachers, and many before that.
If corporations can finally admit that woke really is dead, and that these Far Left grads are not who they want working for them, the demand will die, and maybe donors and parents will finally choose to fund the higher education institutions that do not allow this closed-minded Far Left indoctrination.