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WELL-LIKED TACHER COMPLAINS
An angry email from “well respected tacher” Nick Dyrenfurth:
I am writing to you in the hope that you can might act respectfully towards my family. Fairly enough you highlighted a number of spelling and grammatical errors in my hurriedly put together piece. (By the way I haven’t been able to get into my account to fix this or respond since). I could question the horrible abuse of my personal reputation - I am a well respected tacher and student at Monash University and extremely well liked by my students (for the fact that I don’t EVER force political views upon them) and have an excellent publishing record.
What I object to and hope that you might find some compassion and common decency towards is comparisons to being a Nazi logged on your site. As I suggested my family was annilhilated by the Nazis during the Holocuast and I am deeply angered and insulted by ANY linkage to these barborous acts. In fact I am in Berlin, not only to watch the world cup, but to visit the Jewish Holocaust Musuem and the area where my Grandmother lived and worked before being forced out of the country. I would appreciate you removing the offending post.
The illiterate wacademic subsequently emailed a legal threat:
I am so angry about the slur put on my family and dead relatives that if that reference to nazis is not removed I will be taking legal action. There are level of decency expected in public debate.
Here’s the comment that so enraged Nick. No slur against his family is evident. Since I won’t be removing the comment, guess it’s time to start a legal defence fund. PayPal is on the left. Save me, people!
Hilarious. I read the comment. It had nothing to do with this dingbat’s family, and was only tangentially regarding the dingbat himself—Amos was writing about lefty academics in general, and he didn’t even directly compare them with Nazis, only pointed out that since we don’t tolerate Nazi views why do we tolerate the views of those who are fans of an ideology whose followers killed even more people? And unlike Nazis, they are still in charge of many parts of the world and are still killing today. Oops, I guess I’m now accusing Mr. Dyrenfurth and his family of being Nazis.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 08 at 03:03 PM • permalinkTim, you aren’t the only one being targeted. You’re just the only one by an illiterate idiot. Excuse me, it should have gone thusly.
Your jus th nly on buy and illerirte idit.
A BLOGGER UNDER SIEGE
***scroll for updates: the moonbat ‘fesses up, loses her job?*** (this may be a ruse)
Jeff Goldstein, who has been such an inspiration and good friend ever since I started blogging, is under attack. He—and his toddler son—have been the subject of abuse and harassment from a nutball leftist troll, who appears to hold a prominent teaching position at the University of Arizona and seems to have a history of abusing and stalking blogs (also here). Some of the messages she left for Jeff:
Update from Jeff Goldstein, he hopes to have his site up again sometime this weekend. When he does, I really suggest you read his site before you decide a lefty is worth civil discourse in the future.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 08 at 03:15 PM • permalinkAnd technically, the fact that
NikcieNyckiKincDyrenfurth got out of grade so as such a poor speller could be taken as an attack on his parents for letting it happen, I suppose…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 08 at 03:19 PM • permalinkIsn’t a dicklexis a fancy car for silk-stocking upper middle class types?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 08 at 04:03 PM • permalinkI am insulted that Dyrenfurth would trivialize the holocaust by trying to use it as a shield against reaction to his stupidity. It’s like those Hamas fellows using children (see LGF), while sending rockets flying against Israeli women and children, to shield themselves against Israeli reaction. If “self-declared good teacher” Dyrenfurth wishes to sue me, I’ll be glad to send him the name of my lawyer, who has a great imagination and will return with a countersuit that will cost much more than Dyrenfuth’s pathetic teaching of poor spelling could ever afford.
Why it is that people with relatives lost in the Holocaust would embrace Marxism is quite beyond me. I don’t doubt that these people exist and they regard Nazism as evil. In the end they mutter that “communism hasn’t been done right, that’s all,” even when they themselves defended the Soviet Union (I’ve personally known people like this for many years) and that capitalism has “killed just as many people, even more!” That’s how some try to defend against, for instance, the Black Book of Communism http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COUBLA.html .
Amazing how communism ends up in mass murder whenever people try to do it. What’s wrong with the theory that it ends up with so many miscarriages in practice?Amazing how capitalism doesn’t end up like that time and again.
But what is one to make of a “theory” which says that the state will “wither away” once it is given total control and “alienation” is eliminated? This is magical thinking.
David Horowitz is quite right to regard it as a phenomenon that needs explaining. He says that it has to do with the communist utopian vision working as a remarkable blinder.
Anyway, there’s no point in enabling the fools and the knaves, the ninnies and the beasts, the flakes and the barbarians, the delusional and the evil, in regard to the evils of communism. It certainly has murdered even more than nazism did, and the apparently semiliterate Nick Dyrenfurth will just have to get used to hearing it. In 1930s Germany, the communist and nazi party looked to each other for disgruntled members to recruit, and both parties disparaged and attacked the “liberals”—the Classical Liberals—for, among them, they saw very few potential recruits and much more serious ideological opposition to both nazis & communists. The communists go on painting the Classical Liberals as “fascists” to this very day.
Dyrenfurth was not compared to “being a Nazi”; rather, the cost in human life stemming from the accession to power of leftist regimes, ostensibly holding to political theories Dyrenfurth finds acceptable, was contrasted with the Nazi scale of murder in terms of sheer killing power. In other words, over time, the reds have killed more people than the Nazis. While I am sorry for what happened to Dyrenfurth’s family in Europe, I do not to the slightest extent cut him any slack for supporting a competing totalitarian ideology; in fact, I would say that, given his family’s tragic experience, he has far less excuse for supporting any kind of statist society that reduces the individual to a powerless cipher.
As to his being a “well respected tacher” (sic), Ha-ha-ha-HAH-hah!!!
” I could question the horrible abuse of my personal reputation “
Couldn’t you read that as a criticism of the quality of the abuse? Because I was thinking that too; we should all work harder, so that, one day, he may well complain, ” I could question the outstanding abuse of my personal reputation…”
Posted by lumberjack on 2006 07 08 at 06:09 PM • permalinkNick’s a well respected tacher who squeals like a littel girl at the furst hint of an inslut.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 08 at 06:32 PM • permalink‘girl’ - read ‘gril.’
This lousy spelling caper is hard wirk!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 08 at 06:33 PM • permalinkThere are level of decency expected in public debate.
I don’t think Nick is on the level.
Posted by perfectsense on 2006 07 08 at 06:52 PM • permalink...my family was annilihated by the Nazis during the Holcaust and I am deeply angered by ANY linkage to these barbarous acts.
And so on ...
If you have the time and stomach, have a quick look here,here and here.
Take a gas mask and don’t stay there too long at any one time.
Not bad hey? Three obsessed, ranting, hate-filled, lying, warped, Israel-bashing, spews of poisonous bile in how long? Less than two weeks? Could be more. My quick piece of research was curtailed by the need to breathe.
Each of these articles celebrated Hamas and/or IJ. Yep. The same fascist gangs that now run the show in that nasty, dissent-killing, women-oppressing, thought-controlling, hate-breeding little society that the Palestinians bosses have built. The same gangs that are doing or have done all they can to murder as many Jews as possible by any means at their disposal. The gangs that are sponsored by Iran and in turn broadcast the most vicious and prolific antisemitic propaganda in the world. Including Holocaust-denial, the eradication of Israel and the genocide of the Jews.
Listen carefully Nick. I refrained from commenting on that other thread. But I have something to say now. If you have decided to “link” yourself to a site like this, then the amount of sympathy I have for you at your anguish at being “linked” to monsters in the past would fit comfortably on a pinhead and still leave room for breakfast.
Dear Nick,
Regarding your complaint about your treatment at the hands of Mr. Tim Blair and his cabal of oafish and infantile commenters.
One of the problems of commenting in the public (blogo)sphere is the potential for ridicule. Unfortunately, the possibility that people other than your intended audience would read your original piece and remark upon it must have escaped your notice.
It is, however, one of the characteristics of this form of communication that there is a certain… anything goes…. aura. (Sorry, hope that’s not too clumsy.)
In any case, if you post, you are open to response. Either where you posted or on some other forum. It’s a bit different to your usual arena of expertise, and we can appreciate it being somewhat intimidating.
To that end, please allow me to extend my sympathy for your plight, and a few kind words.
This is the intermanet. This is not a classroom or a lecture hall.
If you position yourself as a professor or teacher, then live up to that position and use your spellcheck. There is no excuse for a teacher to make basic errors, and when one does, they open themselves up to a severe kicking.
Regarding your family, you were the one who brought them into the discussion.
Comparing Nazism and Communism, both totalitarian ideologies that have killed millions upon millions of people is not that difficult to do.
A a history teacher, you should be able to look past the rhetoric and at the numbers. The photos and the documents of the purges can’t all be lying.
And finally, if you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Kind regards,
Nilknarf.
Completed HSC in 1984, bogan makeup artist welfare mum and self-confessed grammar fanatic.Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 08 at 07:14 PM • permalinkWhat I love about the internet, and the blogosphere in particular, is its inherently democratic nature. Just about anyone around the world can access it and say whatever the hell they like. And, if people choose to enter the fray of the blogosphere, they have to be prepared to cop criticism and defend what they say - that’s what free speech is all about.
It is quite obvious to me that sooky moonbats like Nick and company cannot handle the rough and tumble of the blogosphere. These people are too used to their sheltered classrooms - relying on sycophantic students and colleagues to unquestioningly perpetuate their warped world view. The moonbat world is really quite incestuous - I’ll bet more than a few of them can play a mean banjo.
The internet has really shown up the Left to be what it really is - anti-democratic, anti-free speech, hateful of any criticism, (especially by commentators who aren’t part of their inner circle of pointy headed academics), and pro-totalitarian. Moonbats may have control of the academy, but they have, thank God, absolutely no control of cyberspace.
Why cant you people see that Communism is the way?
It was fine but just hijacked by a bad man in the USSR,Cuba,N.Korea,Afghanistan,Yugoslavia, Poland,China,Vietnam and Cambodia. And lets not even touch on Africa.You cant prove it doesnt work so nyaa nyaa nyaaa sucks to you.
/Communard offPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 08 at 08:08 PM • permalinkIf my family had been annihilated by the Nazis during the Holocaust I wouldn’t be deeply angered; I’d be deeply nonexistent.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 07 08 at 08:10 PM • permalinkSix monfs aggo I culdnt evun spele tacher and now i are wun.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 07 08 at 08:57 PM • permalinkOh lord, tis to laugh. You can’t make this stuff up
The posts I put on the Talk Left site were deleted by the censor almost as fast as they went up so PW and I reposted them at Tim’s site. Then skippy the retarded Stalinist staggers OVER HERE to rant and threaten legal action?
Here’s a message for you, shit-for-brains, the bright dawn of your workers paradise evaporated and left behind a colossal pile of human corpses. It failed. Utterly. Completely. There isn’t even a word or series of words in the English language to encapsulate the horrific mess your kind made. Your revolting ideological kin are murderers and fascists. And now you’re over here making pipsqueak threats, you pencil-necked, pathetic, two-bit socialist dogfucker?
Sorry comrade, the Stasi are kaput. There’s nobody to report us to. You’re going to have to do it yourself. Feel up to it, scumbag?
I just reread the original post from Tim and and followed the link to the good professor’s writings. That’s where I found this line:
“I would hope that Left Writes can act as both a creative conduit and ongoing critique of this process of renewal.”
I was shocked to read that because isn’t that Webdiary’s job???
A worthy addition to the ever growing portfolio of Deranged leftists comes from this articlae at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2145277In short LA based photographer with artistic and political pretensions has an exhibition of Children crying and throwing tantrums to , in her words:
“The first little boy I shot, Liam, suddenly became hysterically upset. It reminded me of helplessness and anger I feel about our current political and social situation.” “As a parent,” she continues, “I have to reckon with the knowledge that our children will suffer for the mistakes our government is making. Their pain is a precursor of what is to come.”
So what, another moonbat one might say - but the real objection comes from her methods - turns out she produced the photos by deliberatley provoking the tantrums and misery of her subjects - by giving Children Lollipop’s or candy and then abruptly snatching it away. Another Photographer thought she should be arrested for child abuse.
Mr. Nick did all possible damage to his own reputation as soon as he posted where the world could read what he’s written. I would suggest that he work for the protection of English grammar, which is an honorable protection, unlike falling back on the victimhood of people you never knew, regardless of their sharing of DNA. Shame on him.
#30
So she is admitting that the left’s political opposition to America, capitalism, and good sense have no deeper roots than a two-year-old’s tantrums over a piece of candy denied? We must praise her for her honesty.#16
I think I’d like to hook up with an inslut. Think you can introduce me?I thought Amos was reasonably polite, given the provocation.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 08 at 10:02 PM • permalinkUmmm, France, a few words I can say for the Soccer Crown, tomorrow. Remember the Sicilian Vespers.
According to Leonardo Bruni (1416), the Palermitans were holding a festival outside the city when the French came up to check for weapons, and on that pretext began to fondle the breasts of their women. This then started a riot, the French were attacked first with rocks, then weapons, killing them all. The news then spread to other cities leading to open revolt throughout Sicily. “By the time the furious anger at their insolence had drunk its fill of blood, the French had given up to the Sicilians not only their ill-gotten riches, but their lives as well”.
According to one legend, that has no source or attribution, the rebellion started after a Sicilian woman went to a church in Palermo to look for her young daughter, who had spent the whole day there praying, only to find her being raped in the church by a French soldier — whereupon the mother then ran into the streets, shouting Ma fia! Ma fia! (meaning “My daughter! My daughter!” in medieval Sicilian dialect). Although some have claimed that this is a plausible explanation of the origins of the word “Mafia”, it has all the marks of folk etymology.
Answers
————————“morte alla Francia Italia anelia!” (Italian for “death to the French is Italy’s cry!”),
and if the first letters of the verse are taken, the anagram MAFIA is deciphered.Gambino the True Story (legend has it…lol)
Capiche, la Francia?
Michael Lonie
“#16
I think I’d like to hook up with an inslut. Think you can introduce me”Youd like to meet Paris Hilton????
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 08 at 10:06 PM • permalinkI am a well respected tacher and student at Monash University and extremely well liked by my students (for the fact that I don’t EVER force political views upon them)
Extremely well liked by his students because he obviously has no standards of quality in his own work, and therefore has low expectations for his students’ work.
In other words, what we used to call “an easy A” course!
In the end they mutter that “communism hasn’t been done right, that’s all”
Communism isn’t easy to do right. It’s an optimisation problem that assumes intelligent and trustworthy actors, and even then becomes intractable once the population gets large.
Where “large” is about 30 people. If you have access to modern computers, perhaps 100.
Now I’m really confused, El Cid; isn’t a Vesper an Italian motor scooter?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 08 at 11:10 PM • permalinkMichael Lonie — Outcall sluts are cheaper.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 09 at 12:01 AM • permalink#39, isn’t a vesper when a German tries to speak sotto voce?
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 07 09 at 12:02 AM • permalinkI really envy Tim Blair. It must be heaps of fun being the lightning rod for so much whiney lefty outrage.
PS. Congratulations to Amos for getting under this tacher buffoon’s skin so effectively.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 09 at 01:34 AM • permalinkIn fact I am in Berlin, not only to watch the world cup, but to visit the Jewish Holocaust Musuem
And also the “so-called Marx Engels Forum” where he was outraged by the “ignorant masses” and their insufficiently respectful behaviour towards these two architects of the most murderous political ideology the world has encountered.
I’m wondering if any of the readers have relatives who were killed by agents of a communist regime (statistically highly likely)? Use a spoonful of Dyrenfurth’s logic. His adoration of Marx and Engels constitutes a grevious slur against your family, dead and living! I feel a countersuit in the offing…
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 09 at 01:49 AM • permalinkWhy it is that people with relatives lost in the Holocaust would embrace Marxism is quite beyond me.
Count me out from among those people.
I guess that has something do with the fact that in addition to my grandparents having survived Hitler’s death camps, they also had the privilege of spending quality time in one of Stalin’s gulags where they witnessed the glories of Socialism first hand.
James, can you recommend any good lawyers?Unfortunately some Holocaust survivors and their families embraced Marxism (or worse Stalinism) with what could be best described as messianic fever. They saw Stalin as their savior & felt indebted to the USSR for somehow “saving” them from the gas chambers.
But anyone with a slight knowledge of history (you know Nick, h-i-s-t-o-r-y?) & their heads screwed on properly, would not only note the striking similarities between Communism & Fascism but would also know that these similarities are far from a coincidence. After all, Mussolini was originally a socialist, and was raised by die hard socialist parents. Mussolini & other fascists only broke ranks with the socialists over Italy’s participation in the First World War.
In addition, not only was Hitler’s SA & SS made up of former communists during the 1920’s-30’s, but in the same period (early-mid twenties) Goebbels & other leading Nazis from Berlin wanted to form an alliance or better still consolidate their party with the Communists as they saw their ideologies as being one & the same. As soon as Hitler and other leading Nazis from Munich had heard of what Goebbels & the Berlin group were up to, he had put an immediate stop to it – not so much for ideological reasons but more for the reason that it threatened his power base and cult like status.
And who can forget the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the amount of support this particular pact received from the hardcore leftist intellectuals of the West?
Or how after the war, the USSR became the world’s first Holocaust denying state?
Kidon - I believe Nick Charles from The Thin Man Returns is a good lawyer and may also be willing to do a spot of pro bono work for a worthy cause…
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 09 at 04:06 AM • permalink#43 - quite so, Richard, but it’s good to alternate all the same. In, out, in, out, in, out…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 09 at 04:15 AM • permalinkWhy should I set up a Paypal account? You think maybe I’m next to feel the awesome wrath of Tacher Nick’s unstoppable juggernaut of litigation?
I can see my day in court:
Tacher Nick: “He called me a poopyhead and said my relatives were Nazis!”
ME: “I didn’t but whatever degenerate recessive-gened collection of troglodytes lay spawn to this twitching throwback ought to have been Nazis, also, he is a poopyhead”.
Judge: “Well he’s clearly a poopyhead, however-“
TN’s Lawyer: “Objection! Judge, I hardly think we need to cheapen the majesty of the court by recourse to infantile name-ca-”
Judge: “Shut up, poopyhead. I find for the defendant and I sentence the poopy head commie tool and his lawyer to be sealed in coffins filled with delicious pudding and thrown into a lake.”
Spectators: “Huzzah!”
Judge: “Also, as a tribute to Whatisname’s collectivist beliefs, the Government should pay for the pudding.”*
Spectators: “Hooray for the Judge!” (cue musical number)
*with a shout out to Old Man MurrayIf you opened up a paypal account, I would be the first to credit it. I reckon if we all put in a minimum of $50, the costs of your legal defence will be covered.
B/thw do you have any small children? Because if his legal suit doesn’t work, he might do a Deborah Frisch and go after them. Making threats against others & their family members, seems to be the hall mark of leftists these days.
Did someone say Wignuts? The right-wing part is fine. But nuts? Is it the Pot calling the kettle…
I’ve been checking his CV, and it turns out
Nikcie Nycki KincDyrenfurth had to stop teaching grade school after a really embarrassing typo when he tried to put “Dick and Jane” on the syllabus…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 09 at 11:46 AM • permalinkHas somebody ever pointed out to deluded Nicky that PhD candidates like him are strictly replacement-level teacher talent for his university? It’s nice that he’s feeling “respected” and all, but that’s really not worth much in the grand scheme of things. (At any rate, I suspect the main reason he’s so beloved by his students is that he doesn’t enforce any kind of decent performance standards.)
And how somebody from abroad could be in Berlin and not start to question their communist leanings, I have no idea. Maybe we’ve already been too successful in reversing the effects of 40 years of Communism, and he would have needed to come here 10 years earlier to get a clue.
Tim, not to worry. The firm of Paco, Paco, Paco & Paco is willing to take your case for free. Well, almost for free. Actually, we’ll represent you in return for the exclusive right to twist Dyrenfurth’s arm until he shouts, “Amos is right! Amos is right!”, in a public place, say, the Student Rec Center at good ol’ Monash?
Not to put you down Paco, but I think Tim needs legal counsel experienced in representing opinion journalists. I suggest the Oz branch of the firm The American Spectator uses, Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 09 at 08:52 PM • permalinkOh, c’mon you guys. Any person not moved to hysterical laughter by Nicky’s plight must have a heart of stone.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 07 10 at 01:07 AM • permalinkWell, the Jewish teachers working at Queens Park, Sydney must be good and kool and normal, as I saw their students glad wrapping and plastic wrapping the cars around Bondi Junction for and laughs not long ago. This is contrary to our Victorian Teachers who are enforcing signing contracts for parents to enforce homework.
Can Islamic Australian Students attend Jewish schools? Or is this against the law?
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Thank God he’s not teaching my kids.
This is a typical lefty temper tantrum. If you don’t watch out, Blair, he’ll hold his breath until he turns blue and then you’ll be in trouble! And I’m not even going to think about what will happen if he tells Mommy on you!