Professor's column continued his warped views of fascism

To the editor,

The professor just won’t let it go, so maybe I can bore you with the rest of the story.

A few years back, a friend loaned me the book “America Alone”. I was impressed with its message and, to date, I have bought 12 copies and given them to people I thought would be interested in the shifting changes in the world’s population. I gave one of those copies to Professor Sandy. Over a year went by and he told me he hadn’t read it.

He claimed he was too busy but he would get around to it someday.

Four or five weeks ago he told me that he had read, “ . . .up to page 5” in the book and he was so outraged that he couldn’t read any more of it. He claimed that Steyn’s use of the word “cull” was tantamount to what Hitler did in the Holocaust. (That statement itself is an outrageous affront to Jews around the world who have suffered the Holocaust.) However, as an old chicken farmer, who routinely “culled” young flocks of chickens, I know that culling means separating, as you would separate young hens from young roosters, and you would further separate among the roosters, selecting some for caponizing.

When I challenged his narrow view, the professor gave me a citation from a web site that he said agreed with his definition. Well, as I soon figured out, the website is a left-wing blog from Germany. That website, and not the book itself, is where the professor found out about Steyn’s use of the word “cull” on page 5 of his book.

Since that time, the professor has also sent me far-left articles, from like minded professors, who are now in the process of labeling as “fascists”, anyone who might agree with what is being done by the governors and legislatures in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states. Further, the professor’s column in this Tuesday’s issue of the Daily Sun, continued his warped views on fascism. (Of course, the left doesn’t see the incivility in labeling non-believers as fascists.)

Just think about it, tenured people in the academic world might be telling their students that the rest of us great unwashed are fascists because we don’t agree with their drivel.

Finally, some time ago I had suggested to the professor that if we are to fix the sorry state of education, where our rankings in the world are plummeting, our graduation rates hover around 70-percent, and in metropolitan areas around 50-percent, educators should take the lead and work with the outside world to find workable solutions. His response to that suggestion has been to send out numerous articles ridiculing philanthropists who have given hundreds of millions, and in some cases, billions of dollars in attempting to find solutions to that serious problem. You see, the professor and his pals don’t believe that people who have been incredibly successful in the business world, and who want to give something back to the community, are bright enough to understand the complexity of teaching the A-B-Cs.

Professor Sandy teaches our children.

Bob Meade

Laconia