The ex-husband of Barbara Bush-basher Prof. Randa Jarrar speaks out

Thomas Lifson  "Randa Jarrar, the Fresno State University tenured professor who demonized Barbara Bush shortly after her death and mocked her critics by pointing out that she has tenure and cannot be fired from her six-figure job shaping young minds, ought to become a poster child for the depths to which academia has sunk.  Her status is under review according to university officials, no doubt worried about alumni giving declining, so there is a decent possibility that she will become acause célèbre on the left, should she lose her job.  More attention on her would be perfect, as far as I am concerned.

"In my opinion, the many hardworking scholars of integrity still remaining in the ivory towers of America (yes, they do exist) are surrendering to and being overwhelmed by lesser minds, deranged with political correctness, and filled with hate toward the society they supposedly serve, and by which they are lavishly subsidized, directly with tax funds and indirectly with tax deductibility for donations.  In the current atmosphere on campus, people like Jarrar are able to be not simply accepted, but rewarded with tenure and other perks unimaginable to mainstream Americans.

"An account by a man purporting to be Professor Jarrar's ex-husband, verified by a search of public records as to the marriage and the birth of a child, was published on Milo Yiannopoulos's site Dangerous.  It amounts to a case study in the sort of person who can rise to the near top of a state-owned and subsidized institution of higher education.  I do not recommend it to the faint of heart, but for those who do not mind briefly entering the mire, it is enlightening as to just the sort of person she appears to be.  Of course, an ex-spouse tends to be quite bitter, so that grain of salt must be attached.  Nevertheless, remember that the sons and daughters of America are being entrusted to people who may not merit that consideration." . . .