Coulter Fan, UNC Professor: How to Bomb San Francisco Gay BathhousesAn associate professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina, Mike S. Adams, today has posted on TownHall.com what he considers to be a humorous response to the brouhaha over Ann Coulter's recent use of the word "faggot" to cast aspersions on presidential candidate John Edwards.
While I have no problem with Adams exercising his right to free speech, I am deeply troubled that he calls on Coulter to use her controversy to inflame more hate against homosexuals, and possible incite harm or death to gay men.
2. Begin writing essays calling for the cleansing and purification of society via the mass murder of homosexuals.
3. Distribute videos on the website showing the actual murders of homosexuals.
4. Circulate instructions on how to bomb gay bath houses in San Francisco.
Frankly, I can't imagine any serious professor today calling for anyone write columns demanding we cleanse society of Jews, or distribute videos of African Americans lynched, or sharing directions on bombing gathering places for any minority in America, but it's apparently no problem for Adams, the university that employs him or the editors at TownHall.com.
I feel it necessary to use my free speech rights to counter what Adams has written with some historical facts, starting with the Nazi persecution and attempt to annihilate homosexuals in concentration camps. The photo at the top of this post is from the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and its exhibit a few years back on gays and the Nazis. It shows us homosexuals in the camps, with pink triangles sewn onto their uniforms.
Second, there are far too many dead gay, lesbian and transgender victims for me to laugh at Adams' ideas.
We must remember our murdered brothers and sisters, such as Rashawn Brazell, pictured above, a gay black man murdered in Brooklyn in February 2005 and whose body parts were found in a subway tunnel, and Brandon Teena, a transgender person murdered in Nebraska, and lesbian activists and partners Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill of Oregon, shot to death because of their lesbianism.
We must remember our murdered brothers and sisters, such as Rashawn Brazell, pictured above, a gay black man murdered in Brooklyn in February 2005 and whose body parts were found in a subway tunnel, and Brandon Teena, a transgender person murdered in Nebraska, and lesbian activists and partners Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill of Oregon, shot to death because of their lesbianism.
I must also point out that there are no bathhouses in San Francisco. They've been shuttered since the 1980s, but why let a fact like that stand in the way of expressing hatred and endorsing violence against gays?
If you don't like what Prof. Adams has proposed, why not send him a letter or give a call, expressing your unhappiness with his opinion? No need to be rude to this bigot who spews vile hatred of other Americans just because he feels the need to be provocative. Just politely let him know you don't approve of his "humor."
His email is adamsm@uncw.edu and his phone number on the UNC Wilmington campus is (910) 962-3425.