Dramacow Kevin Allred - Professor of Beyoncé Studies (no, seriously), arrested for threats to kill Trump voters.

(1) His entire department hated him (shocker). He painted it as a brave, groundbreaking, innovator vs. the academic machine; but in reality he's a charlatan, and the WGS department saw right through him.

(2) RU's WGS department is a strange beast: mostly liberal feminists, but there are a few old-school, "fuck your pronouns" radfem types. He did not like them (shocker) and called them TERFs (shocker). Rutgers' WGS department is highly-ranked, but mostly Butlerite nonsense.

Point is, beefing with your advisor, calling her racist, a TERF, etc. on Twitter isn't very bright. Especially at a department with high prestige in its niche.

(3) His advisor dropped him because his thesis was so embarrassing that his advisor thought he would damage her reputation.

(4) He tried blaming this one random liberal girl in his class for ratting on him. His rationale? She was frazzled the day after the Trump election, he said something dumb (I think about burning flags? Unoriginal, but not unheard of at RU). She was crying about the state of the country, etc. emotional about Trump, flag-burning, etc. I can't blame her for this – it was a weird election.

That said, his tweets directly referenced this girl, who probably had nothing to do with the reports.

(5) I'm 100% sure the mole wasn't in his class, even though he assumed it was said girl. He has a really weird problem with white women.
 
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fuckitswilly said:
(1) His entire department hated him (shocker). He painted it as a brave, groundbreaking, innovator vs. the academic machine; but in reality he's a charlatan, and the WGS department saw right through him.
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Why didn't they get rid of him sooner? I don't presume every postgrad has a teaching gig?

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(3) His advisor dropped him because his thesis was so embarrassing that his advisor thought he would damage her reputation.
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So why did xie approve it in the first place?
 
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Why didn't they get rid of him sooner? I don't presume every postgrad has a teaching gig?
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Doctorate students are required to teach two(?) classes per semester. Note that he was officially an adjunct, rather than a student, in his final two years.

As for not shit-canning him sooner, academic freedom is a thing. Most doctoral departments just sort-of go "okay do you." Being flat-out rejected from getting your PhD is a rarity.

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So why did xie approved it in the first place?
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That's why he was going nowhere: she refused to approve it.

The department let him teach his class, got sick of his shit, dumped his class onto the American Studies department, he went psycho, they fired him.
 
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So see if I'm getting this right: he is not working on a thesis; he has no qualification beyond undergraduate level (what did he major in BTW?); everyone hates his guts.

So why did they keep him as an adjunct in the last two years?
 
It's odd too, him being from Utah and white I bet he was raised a Mormon. Would explain the issues too. However by and large Mormons are the nicest people you will meet, give the shirt off their back to a stranger almost sickeningly nice, wonder what happened to make one of them turn into such an asshole
 
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Positron said:
So see if I'm getting this right: he is not working on a thesis; he has no qualification beyond undergraduate level (what did he major in BTW?); everyone hates his guts.

So why did they keep him as an adjunct in the last two years?
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I believe he has a Bachelor's from Utah State University and a MA from a UMass (not Amherst).

As for being an adjunct, I believe his drama occurred within the past two years. According to a source, the initial deal was a leave of absence with an adjunct deal while he worked on something better. Of course, he had nothing better, thus, shitstorm with WGS.

Literally anyone can be an adjunct with a Bachelor's, and it doesn't matter which university. Amber from Chapo Trap House, for example, has a BA from Indiana U and taught a class at NYU as an adjunct. Basically, if a university's department finds your class interesting enough, you can be an adjunct and teach a class for a semester.

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We've heard but can you give us a few more chuckles about this?
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No idea why, but he always called white girls Becky. Honestly, if he were a troll, he'd be a damn good one; or at least a funny Internet critique of liberal feminism.

He gave some white girl shit for "voting for Trump," conveniently ignoring that his demographic voted for the guy in larger numbers (gross and per capita).

He was also beefing with some alt-right Mormon-but-not-really "tradwife" (the LDS dropped its weird de jure white supremacy, for example) blogger on Twitter.

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It's odd too, him being from Utah and white I bet he was raised a Mormon. Would explain the issues too. However by and large Mormons are the nicest people you will meet, give the shirt off their back to a stranger almost sickeningly nice, wonder what happened to make one of them turn into such an asshole
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I don't think his family is Mormon.

Forgot to mention that he tried to blackmail people in the WGS department; students and faculty alike.

The guy was a massive headache.
 
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fuckitswilly said:
His advisor dropped him because his thesis was so embarrassing that his advisor thought he would damage her reputation.
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His thesis wouldn't happen to be the Politicizing Beyoncé book that he's been shilling for would it? Or at least an early form of it? If so, I can sympathise with his advisor entirely.

If it was something else entirely, I don't suppose you could leak its subject matter or suchlike?

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No idea why, but he always called white girls Becky. Honestly, if he were a troll, he'd be a damn good one; or at least a funny Internet critique of liberal feminism.

He gave some white girl shit for "voting for Trump," conveniently ignoring that his demographic voted for the guy in larger numbers (gross and per capita
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Isn't the Becky thing a reference to a Beyoncé song where she decries "Becky with the good hair" or something like that.

I get the impression he is full of self loathing because he's a FUCKING WHITE MALE.
 
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Isn't the Becky thing a reference to a Beyoncé song where she decries "Becky with the good hair" or something like that.

I get the impression he is full of self loathing because he's a FUCKING WHITE MALE.
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I can't imagine someone deliberately misnaming people like that without it coming across as incredibly misogynistic.
 
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Well Kevvie boy is getting slightly smarter, having learned that using the first person when speaking out his violent fantasies will land him in the loony bin.

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Of course he has been alternating between salt and glee over the whole House/healthcare subject. This pretty much sums it up.
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Then there was a bunch of sperging over "Scandal" that I didn't think was worth noting. Skimming it took away 30 seconds of my life I'll never get back, though.

Edit to add following cap, where Kevin retweets someone proposing that 'those missing black girls in DC' (a BS story in and of itself) are being abducted by cops.
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...because the cops can "abduct" black girls from a metropolitan center without anyone noticing. And filming. And putting it on youtube / the evening news.
 
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