The criminologist - an expert.
Well, thank “Bob” our intellectual betters in Boston have finally chimed in on the UAH faculty slaying. And this Northeastern U. criminologist comes uncomfortably close to justifying the alleged killer’s rampage. After all, Amy Bishop has a Harvard Ph.D., and the prospect of not being offered tenure by a buncha hicks in th’ sticks was just too horrible to contemplate:
“‘You have to talk about Amy Bishop’s mental health in this situation as one of the variables, but being denied tenure when you’re in your mid-40s at an out-of-the-way obscure rural campus in the deep South is a catastrophic loss, and people don’t understand that,’ says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. ‘If you’re denied tenure, you’re fired. And in this economy chances are you’ll have to change your career, which is pretty hard for a woman who’s spent a decade in graduate school on a prestigious campus, Harvard, and had a good reputation for scholarship. Where is she going to go?’”- Christian Science Monitor, February 18, 2010.
I’ll decline to ruminate on my own personal love/hate relationship with Huntsville here, but in my obscure rural opinion Prof. Levin needs to, you know, like, broaden his horizons a little bit and stuff.
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When I read something like this, I really do wonder if the author has thought about what he is actually saying and now uncomfortably close it comes to victim-blaming.
And if you’ll put this in writing, how far are you from saying in some other forum that at least no one on a “prestigious campus” was injured or killed, as if that matters in some way or is the kind of thing a decent human being would ever believe?
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