Erin O’Connor continues her exposure of the University of Pennsylvania’s openly and officially discriminatory hiring policies, this time by quoting a long excerpt from the university’s Orwellian-titled “Gender Equity Report” that is as unreadable as it is offensive.
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Right-wing racist bitch. Who does she think she is?
Erin O’Connor, as her website makes clear, is a tenured English professor at the University of Pennsylvania. While this clearly qualifies her to discuss discriminatory hiring practices and policies at that university, Dean Esmay responds by asking who Professor O’Connor thinks she is and by calling her a “right-wing racist bitch” because her opinions are not to his liberal liking (even though she’s writing about *gender* discrimination!).
Visit the hyperlink Esmay provides, and you’ll reach his eponymous website. Follow links on that website, and you’ll discover the true extent of Esmay’s hypocrisy. Here’s text from his “comments/discussion policy” (http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/000210.html):
* “Insults and invective hurled at Dean or other discussion participants are not allowed.”
* “Any post which violates civilized standards of decency or good conduct will be deleted immediately”
While disallowing personal insults on his own site, Esmay visits other weblogs to hurl derogatory epithets at posters whom he finds politically disagreeable. The double standard is palpable: Esmay, like all good liberals, lives in a glass house but wants to throw stones. He can dish it out, but he clearly can’t take it.
Read Erin O’Connor’s site, read Dean Esmay’s, and note how O’Connor’s informed, charismatic, and perceptive posts put Esmay’s tired, shopworn blather to shame. With no credible position, argument, or direction, Esmay can respond to O’Connor’s cogent, intelligent critiques only with ad hominem insults, invective, and spite. Esmay is clearly one of those male liberals who zealously support “progressive” notions of gender equity, but who direct neanderthal sexism at dissenting conservative women. Such hypocrisy, double standards, and base insults to me seem sadly symptomatic of the liberal condition circa November 5, 2002.
–Michelle Edwards
Former liberal, now proudly registered with the GOP
Michelle, I think you’ll find Dean Esmay’s comment was tongue in cheek….
Er, ah, hey, Michelle? I’m on Erin O’Connor’s side. Really. I was pullin’ yer leg, and it seems to have come off in my hand. ;-)
‘sokay. Easy mistake to make. I guess my satire was too close to the sad reality.
Still, for your penance, perhaps you should read this:
http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/000466.html
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So he leans over the basket and screams out, “Helllloooooo! Where
are we?” (They hear the echo several times).
Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: “Helllloooooo!
You’re lost!”
The shouter comments, “That must have been a mathematician.”
Puzzled, his friend asks, “Why do you say that?”
“For three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer, second,
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