Mizzou Professor Gives Up, Resigns After Being Criticized For Trying To Hold Class
I’m sure you’re well aware of the screaming, out-of-control dumpster fire that is the University of Missouri right now. The simple idea of protesting to remove UM Systems President Tim Wolfe so racism can end had much broader repercussions. Who knew?!
MU Nutrition & Exercise associate professor Dale Brigham is the latest casualty in this witch hunt of political correctness. The MU professor resigned Wednesday after stating he’d still be holding class a morning after anonymous threats were made online.
Here’s the email Brigham originally sent out to students and the one sent out later:
#Mizzou professor #DaleBrigham quits after standing his ground. pic.twitter.com/oP62Or7uBn
— Soylent MIZZOUstapo (@soylentgs) November 11, 2015
As you can see in Brigham’s original email, he clearly notes the class isn’t mandatory although an exam would be administered during the session. If you miss the exam because you truly feel unsafe, that’s perfectly fine.
Also, when has advocating for standing up to bullies been a bad thing? Should these random looney tunes who make these violent (and thankfully false) claims dictate how we live?
I should also note, the University of Missouri NEVER CANCELLED CLASSES. Although some professors individually deemed it better to cancel classes than have them, the university decided that holding class on Wednesday was still safe and so by-and-large classes remained in session.
Brigham’s only problem was holding an exam on the wrong day. An exam on an option class day?! What a jerk.
Brigham received support on Twitter:
Seriously, I know a lot of you guys on here had Dale Brigham in class. He was awesome. Did anyone ever have Dale that didn't love him?
— T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) November 11, 2015
the fact that Dale Brigham just resigned is the most horrible thing. shame on @Mizzou for letting this situation get so out of hand.
— Wendy Backes (@wendy_backes) November 11, 2015
Dale Brigham is one of the most liked professors here. I don't blame him for running away from this embarrassment.
— Parker Timmermann (@PTimmermann) November 11, 2015
So that brings us to three university officials who have lost their jobs by standing up for what they believed was right, even though it wasn’t the popular decision.
Impressively, Communication Department professor of Mass Media Melissa Click still has a job after threatening to “muscle” out a reporter.
Impressively, Greek Life director Janna Basler still has a job after childishly pushing a student-reporter and then acting like she never touched him.
Impressively, the Jonathan Butler and the #Concerned1950 students haven’t created a more accepting campus environment.
Kudos to Jonathan Butler, #Concerned1950, and all the supporters. I hope this is the “movement” you wanted..
Here is an email apology that the professor sent out to the students:
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I don’t know what it is but this Mizzouri thing has accelerated into me acting like my father.
10 years ago at 4:12 pmMissouri* what the fuck
10 years ago at 4:13 pmMisery*
10 years ago at 5:09 pmThat’ll teach him to do his job! I hope he learned his lesson.
10 years ago at 4:16 pmWinston Churchill once said, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 35, you have no brain.” I would like to amend this quote to say, “If you’re a conservative at any age, you have common sense. If you’re a liberal at any age, you’re too fucking dumb to exist.”
10 years ago at 4:16 pmI think liberals back in ole Winston’s time were a bit more modest and weren’t absolutely batshit crazy.
10 years ago at 4:30 pmTo all the students at Mizzou who aren’t acting like total jackasses, and specifically the the Greek community (Janna Basler), you have my sympathy. This entire entire situation is totally fucked, and it is apparently spreading to other campuses. The silver lining is that everybody is waking up to how ridiculous the PC, “I’m always offended”, “everybody but whites is being oppressed” is.
10 years ago at 4:16 pm*except basler. dammit
10 years ago at 4:17 pmThanks. Honestly, thanks. We’re absolutely surrounded by this and it’s nice to get on the internet and read articles to help us remember we aren’t the crazy ones like the protesters want us to believe.
10 years ago at 5:04 pmQuick fact about Janna Basler. She denied BYX, the Christian fraternity, from participating in Greek Week. Not once, but twice. The fraternity already participates in Homecoming every year as the small fraternity in the Greek triad. I guess she decides which groups have a voice & precedence on campus and which ones don’t.
10 years ago at 6:14 pmI loose more and more faith every day in this country with this Missouri dumpster fire.
10 years ago at 4:18 pmIt’s getting bad. Just when I think its reached it’s pinnacle it gets worse. Somebody needs to take action against the media who perpetuates it and the idiots themselves. The media is blowing every little thing out of proportion in order to push an agenda. A large majority of the country isn’t racist, sexist, any other stupid -ist you can think of. But by watching the media, you’d think we all were all of those plus more.
10 years ago at 5:13 pmi would rather teach calculus to a litter of cats with down syndrome then teach as a professor at mizzou. At least the cats may have some common sense
10 years ago at 4:21 pmYes, it would be much smarter to teach the cats first.
10 years ago at 5:00 pmHow do you tell between just a normal cat and a cat with down syndrome?
10 years ago at 5:07 pmif you look at there eyes you would think there chinese or something
10 years ago at 5:10 pmWell if you’re in Missouri, you can tell because the cat with Downs will be protesting against “white privilege.”
10 years ago at 5:10 pmI enjoy reading your witty comments. No homo.
10 years ago at 9:29 pmCats with downs look like this. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphics/tigerface2.jpg
10 years ago at 10:17 pmAlthough not needed, I’m glad you supplied this.
10 years ago at 3:37 amIt’s sad but this is just another reason why college degrees are losing their value…
10 years ago at 4:22 pmThey should have flown a drone overt his to film the shit show.
10 years ago at 4:34 pmOver this*
10 years ago at 4:34 pmI sure hope that the educators who are losing their positions to this colossal cluster-fuck of a situation are sought out by other noteworthy institutions and are offered even better positions than they had. #DoItForDale
10 years ago at 4:35 pmSouth Park is just licking their lips.
10 years ago at 4:47 pmTonight’s episode (about police) is going to be good
10 years ago at 7:57 pmYea i was thinking the same thing. This South Park PC stuff has been spot on. I would highly recomend you guys go old school and watch PCU (Politically Correct University) Jeremy piven and daivd spades early work and it DESTROYS this PC shit right when it first started in the 90s. It would be like 5 bucks in a used video store and a great investment.
Also youtube Shrieking Halloween girl about the girl who protested halloween costumes at yale.
Laslty Canada Beats us in one thing and one thing only…being more ultra PC to the point of absurdity. Check out “University of Indoctrination” Students would literally block lecture halls and bang pots to stop someone from speaking
10 years ago at 8:07 pm