Remember Melissa Click? She’s the former assistant professor at the University of Missouri who was thrilled to be front and center in a demonstration against the school, and who called out “can I get some muscle” to remove someone who dared to take pictures of what Click and her pals were doing. Her actions were sufficiently vile to get her fired – no small accomplishment given how completely the U of M caved in so many other ways.
Well, Ms. Click is aggrieved. She is unhappy. She thinks this is terribly wrong.
You can read Click’s entire whinefest by clicking here. I’ll give you a few of excerpts:
If you have had any exposure to American media in the last four months, you know the quick decision I made to stand with the students, you’ve seen my inexperience with public protests, and you’ve heard my apologies for the mistakes I made while offering my support to the students working to make MU a more inclusive environment.
Among the debates and judgments the video footage of my mistakes has attracted, few have sincerely grappled with the sudden choices I had to make in challenging circumstances, and fewer still have earnestly asked whether my protected right to speak out as a US citizen requires that I must be perfect while doing so.
…I do not understand the widespread impulse to shame those whose best intentions unfortunately result in imperfect actions. What would our world be like if no one ever took a chance? What if everyone played it safe?
While I continue to fight the MU Board of Curators’ decision to terminate my employment without due process and in violation of university policy, I am also working to come to terms with how a few captured moments of imperfection could eclipse 12 years of excellence.
I don’t want to live in a world where citizens are too afraid of public scorn to take a chance. Do you?
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Poor Melissa.
FYI: Melissa Click was sentenced to a a year’s probation and community service for what she did that day. I guess the court saw her actions as a tad more than a slight departure from perfection.
So do I. And, I certainly hope, so do you.
One other FYI: admissions to the U of M are down significantly. I wonder if Ms. Click has considered the possibility that her behavior, and the behavior of the folks she was with that day, might have had something to do wi….
….oh, wait. That would require taking responsibility for her actions. Never mind.
. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . My Dear Mizz Click : . . . . If you can’t run with the Big Dogs, then just Stay on the Porch . . . . . . . . . . . .