Framing the Dialogue

Imagine being one of only few in a place dominated by others who are different than you.  Your career is spent in a rather hostile environment and your peers always seem to be against you.  Conversations stop when you enter a room.  People are trying to get you fired.  Your choices seem limited to either cowering or quitting.

Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.  Mike is a conservative professor at a university dominated by liberals.  He has found a different way to deal with being a minority on campus.  He pushes back and uses humor.  I had heard Mike S. Adams several times on radio interviews and found his stories outrageous, funny, and frightening.  Frightening that his experiences are actually happening in this day and age.

In his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, Adams starts off with “Letters From A Disillusioned Professor” covering such topics as affirmative action, feminists, and cultural insensitivity.  When he comes out of conservative closet in Chapter Two, you will be amazed at the transformation and shocked at how his colleagues now treat him.  

I can relate to Mike Adams, as I am a semi-closet conservative working in a very liberal field.  I do not have the protection of tenure so I keep a lower profile.  A colleague of mine had a similar experience in the way he was treated.  His registration as a Republican came up in a conversation at lunch one day.  His description was that “they looked at me like I was an alien.  Someone they had never seen before.”   These folks had worked side-by-side for over ten years. 

Mike Adams seems to have a particular problem playing nice with feminists.  His second book is a series of communiqués as “A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts “Womyn” on Campus.  While humorous, his battles documented in Feminists Say the Darndest Things seem never ending.  He is currently in litigation with the University.

Both books are worth reading.  Mike Adams also writes for Townhall.com and you can read his articles at his website.