Now it’s because the university is clearly trying to block Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager from filming any scenes on campus for their upcoming movie about political correctness. In other words, as the Hollywood Reporter reports: “A funny thing happened to some right-leaning filmmakers trying to make their case that conservatives aren’t welcome on college campuses: They weren’t allowed on a college campus.”
My former employer, California State University-Northridge, is the epitome of everything wrong with college campuses today. For almost a decade, I chronicled the utter insanity of the college as well as its hypocrisy. On this palmy California quadrangle, a “Hispanic-Serving Institution” comprised of over forty thousand students, Christian groups like InterVarsity are not welcome and the publicity office refused to promote a guest lecture by Shirley Jones, the Academy-award-winning actress who played Mrs. Partridge. On the other hand, a “queer icon” name “Bitch” can find its way to a prominent spot on the university website.
Here special deference is given to the likes of David Klein, who compares Israel to Nazi Germany, and to Rudy Acuña, the aging Chicano militant who authored Occupied America and sent an email to prominent LA Latinos postulating that I was a CIA agent sent to destabilize the university through government-backed sabotage.
Yet I was really a bridge too far. I grew up with a lesbian mother but converted to Christianity in pursuit of a chaste life and opposed same-sex marriage. Needless to say I was driven out of the job after eight years of relentless persecution. Of the many people humiliated and tortured by Northridge cry bullies, one must count Brittany Klein, also known as Rivka Edelman, another adult who had been raised by lesbians. An Orthodox Jewish writer, she came to my Mythology class to lecture about the distinction between Jewish and Ovidian concepts of world creation. My dean, a radical lesbian “religious studies” expert from Women’s Studies, insisted that I post her name publicly and advertise the event through Jewish Studies. The result was that anti-Semites and LGBT radicals flagged her name from the Jewish Studies page, and flooded her workplace as well as all the publications that had published her writing to blacklist her. It’s now over two years and two lost jobs later, and she is still told by editors that no anti-gay or pro-Israel Jewish child of lesbians has a shot of being published under her own name.
This year, after running one tenured Latino off campus over political bias, getting roasted by Eugene Volokh over censorship by Armenian propagandists, settling out-of-court for big bucks over a Christian fired for his views on creationism, and being blasted by veterans and Christians for an offensive anti-Christian and anti-American wall mural, the place I once described as a “totalitarian gulag” is in the news again.
