Nazi professor fired for "absenteeism"

A New Jersey man who has a program called "White Viewpoint" and is an admitted neo-Nazi was fired from his job as a university professor this week. Except that Fairleigh Dickinson University only had the courage to fire him for alleged absenteeism. Prof. Jacques Pluss, who taught Western Civ., has his radio program advertised on a website with the slogan "White revolution, the only solution." The introduction to the show says "Professor Pluss explains how Jews and Israel control our foreign policy." I can't wait.

When he was fired, Pluss was defiant: FDU, he said, "has traditionally been a heavily Judaized institution." He then attacked basketball players attending the school on athletic scholarships, calling them niggers.

That a respected university had to create a false reason for this clown's dismissal is evidence of how dangerous the Ward Churchill precedent could become. When University of Colorado Chancellor Phil DeStefano said that Churchill's words -- even those that advocated violence -- were not sufficient grounds to fire him, he implicitly said that no words could be used to dismiss a professor. This is an Alice-in-Wonderland surreal world where university professors at institutions of higher learning are not only the most concentrated focus of irrationality and hate, but where the civilized world bizarrely declares that it is powerless to stop the madness.

Ward Churchill and Jacques Pluss both should have been fired, and they both should have been fired solely because their views and communications are so poisonous and so violent that they evidence an impoverished mental aptitude and demonstrate noxious views completely outside the scope of reasonable discourse.

And a society that lacks the self-confidence to declare as much unduly weakens itself voluntarily. It is time for the academy and those who support her to stand up and declare that there are standards and those standards will be kept.