Saturday, July 08, 2006
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!