Professor involved in protests charged with assault, will keep job

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2016-01-27 18:10

Story here. Excerpt:

'University of Missouri (Mizzou) Professor Melissa Click, who garnered national attention after attempting to remove a student journalist from a November protest, was formally charged with assault Monday morning,ABC 17 reports.

In November, Click was caught on video threatening a reporter who requested an interview with her during an on-campus protest at Mizzou. Click immediately turned down the reporter’s request for comment and told him he needed to leave the protest. The reporter stood his ground causing Click to call out for “muscle” to forcibly remove the reporter from the protest. The video shows Click swinging at the reporter’s camera, leading some to believe she assaulted a student.'

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Submitted by ThomasI on Thu, 2016-01-28 07:13

I think it is best that she was not fired. If so, it would have complicated the next phase.

She is currently in tenure review -- this takes one year. The college has already acknowledged that this incident is disruptive to her teaching. In the language of tenure review, this is a death gong. So they may have not fired her just to ensure the appearance of fairness in the more important tenure review process.

Or, she may just skate because she is a feminist and feminists are privileged in academia.

One other point. The issue here for me is less the physical assault, but her requset for muscle. In essence, she incited black men to rise up when she could not. She sacrificed her feminist principles of "I am woman, hear me roar" and defecated out "I am feminist, but I need muscle -- and if you get in trouble with the law, I will still blame men."

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Submitted by ThomasI on Thu, 2016-01-28 07:14