Texas Tech: "Whole Lotta F---'in Goin' on"

Hat tip The College Fix

Texas Tech University is in the spotlight this week thanks to a professor of something called “Decolonial Theory”, who has gone on a rant throwing around f-bombs in referring to Israel and anyone who supports the Jewish state.

Say hello to Professor Jairo Funez-Flores, who went on an obscenity-laden rant on social media and is now on paid leave while the university tries to figure out what to do with this guy. It is their opinion that the professor’s remarks were anti-Semitic, which I believe he is denying. I should note that his posting on X came hours after the October 7 attack.

The College Fix has a report.

The Campus newspaper, the Daily Toreador has two articles running on the situation, which can be read here and here. In the latter link, I jumped into the reader comment fray, as I often do. 

“As a gentile who taught 18 years at a major California university (1998-2016), I can testify first-hand that the anti-Israel movement on our campuses is anti-Jewish to its core no matter how much they deny it. It is high time that the leaders of our universities wake up to how this campaign has resulted in intimidation of Jewish students across the nation by the likes of SJP.

It amazes me how anybody, after the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, could take their side and justify what they did. Hamas is evil, and they proved it on October 7. The blood of innocent Palestinians is on Hamas’ hands.”

So the university is now trying to decide whether the learned professor of Decolonial Theory was merely exercising his right of free speech outside of the university venue or if he crossed the line. On a larger scale, I think university administrators need to take a serious look at how this whole pro-Palestinian movement on campus has itself crossed the line into pure anti-Semitism. In my view, that line was crossed years ago, and academia still has failed to confront it no matter how much they prattle on about the “values of their university, inclusion” etc. I also think they need to take a hard look at the sort of people they are bringing into their classrooms and who are representing the image of their institutions.

Decolonial theory!