MDD Board Gloats over Ruination of Texas Prof's Job

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MDD Board Gloats over Ruination of Texas Prof's Job

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Our old forger buddy Maklelan has launched a very schadenfreude-heavy thread over on the ironically named Mormon Dialogue board:

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/567 ... classroom/

Maklelan wrote:A couple years ago I posted on a prominent anti-Mormon who was teaching for a Texas community college and appeared to be actively spreading bigotry in his classroom. Several people involved in higher education chimed in and commented that his approach was absolutely unacceptable. It was recently brought to my attention that this professor has now resigned as a direct result of his bigotry. Apparently two Muslim students were particularly offended and interrupted his class repeatedly, finally storming out while one allegedly made a veiled threat to the class. A police report was filed, but one of the students who stormed out sent an email to the school and the students documenting the teacher's bigotry elsewhere on the internet. The school began to come down on the teacher rather than the students, and he resigned. I cover the details on my blog, here.


Now, I am of a divided opinion on this. On the one hand, the material that Mak documented is indeed quite bigoted; provided that the accounts are accurate, the prof. probably did deserve to be canned. On the other hand, there is something very off-putting about the reaction of Maklelan and his crew of MDD posters. Morgan.Deane, it seems, actually went out of his way to contact human resources at the college where this guy teaches. To this, Maklelan responded:

Maklelan wrote:I never did get in touch with the school after hearing about his behavior, but I feel now like I should have.


This is vaguely reminiscent of John Tvedtnes's attempts to interfere in Thomas Murphy's tenure process, though clearly the "offenses" of the targets were vastly different. The point seems to be that, if you dare to upset the Mopologists, they will come after you in real life.
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The mopologists' loyalties and techniques remind me of episodes of The Sopranos.
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morgan-deane....LOL....That guy is hilarious. Just check out his posts about Book of Mormon warfare. His education is very suspect....
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The professors at BYU would never make such discourteous remarks about a religious tradition not their own.
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sock puppet wrote:The mopologists' loyalties and techniques remind me of episodes of The Sopranos.

"Never go against the family!"

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Doctor Scratch wrote:Our old forger buddy Maklelan ...

Interesting thread, Dr. Scratch. But I am curious about your statement above. What do you mean by "forger"? Is maklelan a friend of Mark Hoffman?
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Dear Hasa:

Before I split your comment out, tell me: What does it have to do with the subject matter of this thread?
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Carton wrote:
Doctor Scratch wrote:Our old forger buddy Maklelan ...

Interesting thread, Dr. Scratch. But I am curious about your statement above. What do you mean by "forger"? Is maklelan a friend of Mark Hoffman?


Maklelan once announced on some older version of MDD that he used to be a "criminal" who did "forgeries":

Maklelan wrote:I was a criminal for quite some time before I joined the church. I have done forgeries, but in the end, forgers are still humans, and I am a student of human behavior.


I don't know whether Mak's original post exists, but it was discussed in this 2008 MDB thread:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8107&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

He apparently thought it would be wise to use his past, criminal actions as a means of establishing his own Mopologetic bona fides.
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Dr. Shades wrote:Dear Hasa:

Before I split your comment out, tell me: What does it have to do with the subject matter of this thread?


Shades:

I read Hasa's post as a kind of "mirroring" commentary showing that what Mak et al. are doing is equally applicable to Mopologists.
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