Monday, February 2, 2009

The Paranoid Professor

John McAdams is a professor at Marquette University. What he is supposed to be teaching, I don't know. I am not sure that I really want to know either.

But what he does excel at is paranoia. He sees anti-Christian bogeymen around every corner, sure that they are trying to tear down a religion that has survived for two millennia.

He is also very good at playing the martyr. He will tell you how evil you are for being gay, liberal, interested in social justice, etc., and then feign hurt when you confront him on his bigotry.

Case in point is a piece he wrote on Christmas Day. He takes a long way to try to argue that Social Workers are the Devil's workers, or something like that. Here is a piece, with the emphasis put in by yours truly:
One can, in other words, add social work to education as professions whose gatekeepers (university programs providing necessary credentials) impose an ideological litmus test.

Social work schools have particularly expressed concern that conservative Christian students might have biases that would prevent them properly serving homosexual clients.

Of course this could happen. But it could also happen that homosexual social workers or atheist social workers might let their biases prevent them from properly serving conservative Christian clients.

And students who are professed feminists certainly raise questions as to whether they can be fair to men in things like child support or child custody issues.

So what we have here is not any real, legitimate concern with professionalism, but rather raw political bias.
Now, I have to admit that I took some umbrage at his throwing around insults, when it is obvious that he doesn't even understand the subject matter that he is upset about.

First of all, for his first assertion to be correct, he would have to show me where there is a collected, organized effort by gays or atheists to deny even Constitutional rights to Christians. I don't mean the crackpots that come out every year and file their frivolous lawsuits at Christmas time, either.

However, we have seen around the country, most recently in California with Prop 8, where Christians organized and spent millions of dollars to legitimize their bigotry and homophobia.

In psychobabble, this is what is called projection. He is taking the thing he least likes about himself and puts that aspersion onto those that he doesn't approve of. And as I pointed out a long time ago, what he really is doing is just trying to mask his fear of that which is different and that he cannot understand.

The second highlighted point really displays his paranoia. It also makes me cringe to think that he may be teaching anything with the law or governmental science, since anyone with a neuron left in their head knows that it is a judge, not a social worker, that determines child support and/or child custody.

For another example of McAdam's loss of contact with reality, check out the McAdams Sutra.

15 comments:

  1. The guy is an avid fan of the death penalty, derides social justice or any help for the poor -- even people who try to help out in a non-government way, supports war. What a poster boy for Christianity.

    It's what one friend of mine from Florida calls a hypochristian.

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  2. In other words, a "Christ"ian who disagrees with Christ about everything. This is very common these days...

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  3. Maybe he needs to get laid? Built up frustrations are causing him to be clouded and misjudging...

    Hide your children!

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  4. Hey Wonder Woman:

    It was a Social Worker who thought Christopher Thomas would be safe with Crystal Keith.....

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  5. Just curious...did any of you actually click on the link to McAdams blog post and read it?

    capper...unless I am not reading something right McAdams was writing about an experience a conservative Social Work student had with his professors. The student has file a lawsuit claiming he was discriminated against by his professors because of his conservative beliefs.

    However...you carefully selected a short part of McAdams blog post and made it sound like he was just making all this up on his own...which is not the case. If what the student is claiming is true then what the professors did to him was wrong. I'm sure even you would agree no one should be discriminated against based on their religious or political beliefs.

    So...since McAdams was only writing about an actually case how exactly does that make him paranoid? I would also like to know where McAdams says anything about "...how evil you are for being gay, liberal..." in this "case in point" blog post?

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  6. Anon 10:52

    Correction, it was an untrained social worker that was following an inept bureaucratic policy that placed the child.

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  7. Anon 11:35

    I linked not to the story, but to McAdams commentary because that is what he was saying, not a second or third hand account that you are speculating about. It was McAdams statements that purported that a gay social worker would be biased towards a Christian couple, but with no basis for that except for his own projected bigotry.

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  8. Christians organized and spent millions of dollars to legitimize their bigotry and homophobia

    Truly dispassionate language, Capper. No insult or flaming in THOSE words, nosireee!!

    Tell me again about even-handed social workers...mythology is such fun!

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  9. Oh, Sheez. I hate it when I agree with Dad29.

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  10. Daddio,

    Please point out where I was incorrect. Also point out where I said the McAdams couldn't practice his religion or have equal rights.
    Or is that point too subtle for you?

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  11. capper...I clicked on the first link in your blog post and it directed to me to McAdams' blog post...where it says..."From Fox News"...so how is that McAdams' own commentary? Later...after a lengthy news report McAdams comments on the report.

    What McAdams was doing in his blog post (or at least the way I read it) was reversing what the professors said about the conservative social work student in an effort to show there could be bias on both sides. He wasn't saying that is how he personally feels...at least that is not the impression I got from reading it. He was saying discrimination against any person (student) based on their religious/political views is wrong and that a person can be good at social work even if they are conservative...which was contrary to what the (liberal) professors of the conservative social work student believed.

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  12. Either the context I cited were his own words, or he plagiarized. While I don't agree with him, I don't think he plagiarized.

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  13. Exactly. You linked to the whole blog post but then took his words out of context on your blog post. Once you read McAdams' whole blog post it makes perfect sense and he doesn't sound at all paranoid.

    I guess the question to ask you is whether or not you believe conservatives can be good Social Workers and serve everyone equally or do you agree with the Social Work student's professors?

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  14. Once you read McAdams' whole blog post it makes perfect sense and he doesn't sound at all paranoid.

    No it doesn't. And that brings it back to the original point. It is not the gays that are trying to suppress the Christians. It is the Christians that want to deny gays equal rights, then play martyr when the gays point this out.

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  15. LOL...around and around we go.

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