White Supremacist Professor on Web Radio
Jacques Pluss, 51, a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey (and about a half hour from the city), was dismissed recently from the University. After his dismissal, faculty and students learned that he held explicitly white supremacist views and was involved in the National Socialist Movement, a neo-nazi organization based in the midwest, the AP reports.
There's some disagreement about the reason for Pluss' dismissal. He, says he was dismissed in March because university officials learned about his involvement in the National Socialist Movement, which bills itself as "America's Nazi Party." University officials said he was let go for missing too many classes.
According to the AP story linked above, after his dismissal Pluss:
...went on "White Viewpoint," a radio show on the National Socialist Movement Web site, to talk about FDU's "Jewish plutocratic university" and described the school's men's basketball team as "nigger to the core."
"They (the players) have absolutely no right to be in that classroom because they do not possess either the merit or the enhanced intelligence to be there," he said on the show.
Not surprisingly given these views, Pluss also questions the veracity of the Holocaust saying:
"I don't deny that a Jewish Holocaust of some kind occurred," he said in his customary dry, dispassionate voice. "However, I do believe that the Holocaust needs to be re-examined from a general vantage point. How many were really killed? Under what circumstances?"
And, in my favorite twist on this story, Pluss (who, to reiterate, is 51) is dating one of his students, Jessica Stephens, a 21-year-old sophomore who had taken one of his classes. Nice to see that my argument about white supremacy being fundamentally about white-male-privilege-and-entitlement still holds.
Perhaps one day colleges and universities will take this kind of sexual harrassment on the part of faculty as seriously as they do neo-nazi involvement.
There's some disagreement about the reason for Pluss' dismissal. He, says he was dismissed in March because university officials learned about his involvement in the National Socialist Movement, which bills itself as "America's Nazi Party." University officials said he was let go for missing too many classes.
According to the AP story linked above, after his dismissal Pluss:
...went on "White Viewpoint," a radio show on the National Socialist Movement Web site, to talk about FDU's "Jewish plutocratic university" and described the school's men's basketball team as "nigger to the core."
"They (the players) have absolutely no right to be in that classroom because they do not possess either the merit or the enhanced intelligence to be there," he said on the show.
Not surprisingly given these views, Pluss also questions the veracity of the Holocaust saying:
"I don't deny that a Jewish Holocaust of some kind occurred," he said in his customary dry, dispassionate voice. "However, I do believe that the Holocaust needs to be re-examined from a general vantage point. How many were really killed? Under what circumstances?"
And, in my favorite twist on this story, Pluss (who, to reiterate, is 51) is dating one of his students, Jessica Stephens, a 21-year-old sophomore who had taken one of his classes. Nice to see that my argument about white supremacy being fundamentally about white-male-privilege-and-entitlement still holds.
Perhaps one day colleges and universities will take this kind of sexual harrassment on the part of faculty as seriously as they do neo-nazi involvement.
posted by Jessie Daniels at
12:39 PM
