Disheveled Marxist Professor FIRED Over Israel Protest Involvement
But why was he even hired?
Finally—for once—a Marxist professor has been fired from the University of Texas at Austin.
The situation is not a one-off. It represents a potential turning point for our democracy, begging important questions like where freedom of speech ends and where being a mentally incapacitated hippie begins.
The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a University of Texas professor Wednesday, more than a week after he was accused of grabbing a DPS trooper's bike and yelling expletives during the April 29 encampment that was staged to protest the Israel-Hamas war. He was then fired by the university this week, according to his lawyer.
His name is Rich Heyman. His UT profile literally says he is a Marxist professor.
He apparently looks like this.
However, his school photo looks like this?
Are we sure that is even the same guy?
The DPS charged Heyman, who has worked at UT for almost 18 years and is listed as a lecturer in the school of liberal arts and architecture, with interfering with public duties. The charge is a Class B misdemeanor, which can be punished with a fine of up to $2,000 and no more than 180 days in jail.
A copy of the probable cause affidavit states that Heyman approached state troopers and yelled in their faces, "F**k you, you don't belong here!" as police began making their way toward the protesters in the encampment on the lawn of the university's South Mall.
Using body cam footage that was released by DPS, we have clipped what we believe are the most aggressive actions taken by Heyman prior to his arrest.
Heyman is seen holding an insulated water bottle and dressed very much like a liberal professor. Heyman appears to make a lunging motion at a passing officer seen carrying riot control gear. You have to watch the interaction closely, because the lean/lunge action is very subtle.
Heyman was allegedly yelling “F you” and other liberal catchphrases in the officer’s face; however, his hands never appeared to make any movements that could be perceived as hostile.
If being nasty and yelling “F you” was illegal, then every Democrat in America would be locked up for life! These are not crimes! — However, we may want to keep Heyman locked up, just in case.
We have meticulously combed through the works and life of this Dr. Richard Heyman, and we now understand why he looks the way he does.
His area of scholarly expertise is applying critical theory to geography. It’s called critical geography. (Yes, there is a critical theory of everything.)
Critical geography is theoretically informed geographical scholarship that promotes social justice, liberation, and leftist politics.[1] Critical geography is also used as an umbrella term for Marxist, feminist, postmodern, poststructural, queer, left-wing, and activist geography.[2][3]
These eggheads have combined all the worst things on Earth with geography.
Exhausted yet?
Here is an example of this geographical scholarship.
That’s not actually what the paper is about. Well, it kind of is. Anyway, I’ve read a lot of goofy Marxist theories, but this one might be the goofiest.
The only interesting part of the 2007 paper is this theme of “knowledge production.” What this is really talking about is spreading what is known today as the “woke mind virus.”
Other than that, it was weird, and I honestly can’t say I see any redeeming academic value. I would say this is probably beneath a Substack as well.
The importance of this critique of expertise is reinforced by Horvath’s claim that the question haunting the participants was one expressed by Gwen Warren at the final public meeting of the DGEI on 9 October 1970: “The question is whether or not this capitalistic system can deal with thousands of educated black people ... Who’s going to man the factories and be the sexual slaves if we all get Ph.D.’s?” (quoted in Horvath 1971:84). Horvath’s—and Warren’s—point is that the DGEI was never primarily about reshaping the theoretical “paradigm” of geography (though, of course, that would be a necessary outcome of the reciprocity relations); instead, by reconceiving the educational institutions of the discipline, it sought to widen access to the means of knowledge production, the hitherto exclusive realm of the “PhDs” and, in so doing, change social conditions in such realms as production and gender relations.
Only 1,000,000 IQ people can comprehend the critical geographer’s plans for society.
“We’re going to seize control of the means of knowledge production!”
I don’t know why these universities keep confusing drug use with scholarship and research.
What do you think?
Should Heyman be fired for being mean to DPS officers? He didn’t appear to have done anything to deserve arrest in the video we watched.
Or, should he be fired for doing the weirdest critical theory ever?
I so enjoy seeing a commie get taken down, even if he didn’t do anything but utter “F-you” to a LEO. Look at all the innocents who are jailed now for just being at a certain place at a certain time. And at least they levied charges on this dude. And he’ll probably be granted his right to a speedy trial and to face his accusers. That is more than can be said about the certain other people still rotting in a DC prison.