Early this morning Pasadena City College history instructor and internet-famous male feminist Hugo Schwyzer, who has been conducting a slow-motion self-immolation all summer, interrupted his online hiatus to offer yet another admission of wrongdoing.
This one is likely the most significant yet.
In a brief middle-of-the-night blogpost, Schwyzer admitted that a pseudonymous accusation posted on Tumblr a few days ago was true, and that he has been conducting sexual relationships with students for more than five years:
“Until recently, I maintained that I had stopped having sex with students enrolled in my classes in 1998. That is not true; I started sleeping with students again in 2008, well before my psychiatric breakdown of earlier this year.
I have no intention of naming names or of discussing numbers, save to say that the allegations “Meagan” makes are true and that I did indeed have sex with more than one adult student. There is no excuse for this behavior, and I do not expect anyone to defend it.
I will convey this information to the college, and I expect this will be a factor in discussions about my future as an history instructor.
I am deeply sorry for having maintained a lie for so long, and extend my apologies to the many whom I’ve wronged, including those who fiercely defended me against charges that turned out to be true.”
As he indicates in this post, Schwyzer was nearly fired from Pasadena City College in 1998 for sexual contact with students — dozens of them, by his most recent account. He has attributed his success in keeping his job at that time to the fact that he had just been granted tenure when the allegations surfaced, and to the fact that PCC did not then have clear written policies outlawing student-teacher sex.
The charge of sleeping with his students subsequent to 1998 is one that Schwyzer has consistently and adamantly denied, even as he has acknowledged an ever-growing catalogue of improper behavior. (Only weeks ago, he admitted having written a series of private text messages in which he fantasized about having sex in a classroom while his students watched and masturbated.) But now those denials have been shown to be false.
Schwyzer says his admission that he slept with multiple students who were enrolled in his classes will likely “be a factor in discussions about my future” at Pasadena City College. But it should be more than a factor. It should be decisive.
To have sex with your students is a profound violation of your moral, ethical, and pedagogical obligations to them. At PCC, where Schwyzer teaches, it is also a direct violation of college policy.
Today’s revelations make it abundantly clear, if it wasn’t before, that there is no place for Schwyzer in the classroom. Not now. Not ever.
Schwyzer should resign from PCC immediately. If he refuses to resign, he should be fired. Period.
Update | Schwyzer expanded upon his most recent confession in a YouTube video, posted last night. In it, he said that between 2008 and “very recently” he conducted sexual relationships with three different students who were enrolled in his classes when the relationships began.
In the YouTube video Schwyzer acknowledges that his ongoing violation of PCC policies “may impact my relationship with the college,” and says he is “willing to face whatever consequences may come” on that front. But that’s a statement, it should be noted, that could mean anything or nothing. Either they’ll fire him or they won’t. If they do, either he’ll sue them or he won’t. However any of that shakes out, he’ll be facing the consequences of his actions whether he likes it or not.
What Schwyzer doesn’t say — in the video or in the blogpost — is that he intends to resign from PCC. For years now, as evidence of Schwyzer’s misbehavior has accumulated, he has consistently stonewalled and deflected for as long as he could. Only when those options were exhausted has he ever admitted error or wrongdoing. He has never, to my knowledge, chosen to resign from a feminist project or step back from a feminist space — each time he has withdrawn it has been because he was forced to, and each time he has sought to spin the withdrawal as a freely chosen gesture.
Schwyzer is a serial sexual predator. He has abused his position as a college instructor for his own sexual gratification repeatedly over a period of decades. He has no business teaching. He cannot be trusted around students. There is no legitimate path back into the classroom for him.
If Schwyzer fights to keep his teaching job, as he has always done when his actions have placed it in peril in the past, he will cause PCC needless expense, embarrassment, and distraction. He will force the students whose trust he violated to testify against him, or to lie for him. If he is successful in his attempt, he will place his new students in an untenable position.
Should he resign? Of course.
He should have resigned years ago.
Second Update | The general counsel of Schwyzer’s community college has released a statement on his confession, and it’s pretty blistering:
Yesterday Mr. Hugo Schwyzer, a faculty member of the college, released statements publicly on the internet that he has had sexual relations with his students as recently as 2011 while an instructor at the college.
Such conduct, if confirmed as true, would be a grave violation of college policy warranting termination.
The college does not in any way condone or tolerate such conduct by any faculty member. All of us in the college are outraged by Mr. Schwyzer’s statements about his conduct. The college is acting swiftly to conduct an investigation and to hold Mr. Schwyzer accountable for his actions while an employee.
It seems clear that they’re committed to firing him at this point. We’ll see if it actually happens.
Morning Update | The local Pasadena paper has a story up on yesterday’s developments, and while it mostly rehashes what was already known, it does include two new pieces of information.
First, in an interview Schwyzer gave the paper yesterday, he again confirmed the allegations made by the anonymous former student on Tumblr. (As has become a recurring pattern this summer, Schwyzer reached out to the media from a mental health facility he checked himself into after his latest internet confession.)
Second, Schwyzer gave no indication that he’s considering resigning his teaching post. Indeed, he said that he is “looking very seriously” at the possibility of filing a psychiatric disability claim, suggesting that accepting such a claim could be an “end around” for the college. Apparently he has no intention of quitting, and plans to fight back if PCC tries to fire him.
One other point: It could be a matter of selective editing or poor questioning, but although Schwyzer says in the article that he regrets the “fraud and hypocrisy” involved in his writing in opposition to age-disparate sexual relationships while he was engaged in such relationships himself, and though he describes himself as “a terrible male feminist” who “damaged the brand of male feminism,” he never addresses the specific moral or ethical implications of his repeated use of his students for sex.
September 10 Update | Schwyzer has made the terms of his attempt to extort PCC into granting him disability pay explicit, and granted an interview in which he gossiped about his sexual relationships with his students. Meanwhile, the student who outed him is getting unwelcome attention from PCC administrators, and a right-wing blog has published the names and personal information of two students who they suspect — on virtually no evidence — of having been his sexual partners. New blogpost here.
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September 5, 2013 at 9:04 am
tigtog
TEST
WP doesn’t seem to want me to leave a comment.
September 5, 2013 at 9:05 am
Angus Johnston
I moderate first comments from “new” commenters to squelch spam. Let me just go check the queue.
MOMENTS LATER: Nothing stuck in moderation. You should be clear to post.
September 5, 2013 at 9:06 am
tigtog
I see, now it works! Well, my point was that I’m not surprised, and I just don’t want to hear about him any more. Are there any equivalents to Walden Pond just waiting for a resident hermit? He should just go find himself in some picturesque solitude somewhere and let the rest of us get on with getting stuff done.
September 5, 2013 at 9:09 am
Angus Johnston
Yeah. I haven’t written anything on him in months beyond the sporadic tweet, and I debated whether to put this piece up.
What tipped me over the edge is that these latest admissions make clear what many of have suspected for a very long time — the man is a serial sexual predator. He’s been grooming his students for sex for at least five years, just in his current incarnation.
He’s got to be kept out of the classroom.
September 5, 2013 at 9:09 am
tigtog
I suspect there was gremlin playing silly buggers with the wordpress.com login stuff. Refreshing the page didn’t fix it, but navigating to your home page and then using the link there to navigate back to this post did.
Just in case anybody else is having the same problem.
September 5, 2013 at 9:10 am
Kevin T. Keith
There’s a little wiggle room in there (he doesn’t say explicitly that these last incidents were with students *while they were enrolled in his classes*, and that’s all the policy prohibits), but . . . sheesh. This has gone beyond train-wreck. He’s dangerous.
September 5, 2013 at 9:13 am
tigtog
I totally get the necessity for this post. Students need to be protected from his predatory manipulations. Once that’s done I just want his family to use those trust funds to keep him out of the public eye entirely.
September 5, 2013 at 9:15 am
Angus Johnston
Kevin: “Until recently, I maintained that I had stopped having sex with students enrolled in my classes in 1998. That is not true.”
Also, the student who posted on Tumblr, whose claims he doesn’t deny, says she had sex with him while she was taking one of his classes.
September 5, 2013 at 9:15 am
Angus Johnston
Tig: Yep.
September 5, 2013 at 9:40 am
Thomas
But … where is there a place for him? No employer could hire him given his history of violence, manipulation, lying, violating work rules, substance abuse …
He is not suitable for academia, the workforce, or almost anywhere in modern life. He can’t go be a personal trainer because he can’t be trusted, even supervised, to have that kind of contact with staff and clients. He can’t write for pay because after the meltdown there’s just no market for his writing anymore.
Is there perhaps a monastic order where he could remove temptation from his life more or less entirely? I’m not being facetious. I think he’s down to that, or permanent disability. And it might work, unless he started sneaking in drugs or manipulating other members of the order, which given his track record he might.
That itself is a privilege. Drug-addled lying rapists who keep getting caught and apologizing until they lose their jobs but who are not educated white men go to prison, and keep going back.
September 5, 2013 at 10:31 am
thelovelyjazmin
Thomas–
I think that he will always be able to keep writing. His audience will probably change to people hoping for a redemption story. Or any website still willing to use him as clickbait (that relationship with Jezebel is probably over).
September 5, 2013 at 10:32 am
Liz
Drugs, alcohol abuse, sleeping with students you are entrusted to teach, harassment of women of color, attempted murder of an ex-girlfriend, cheating on your spouse(s), by his own admission at least 11 commitments (minimum) to hospitals and clinics…what else does this guy have to do before people say, “Why am I still listening to you?”
If any ONE of these things had been done by anyone other than a white man with power (professor, politician, celebrity, etc.), he would have been written off a long time ago. Men of color, working class men would have been (and were) targets for his verbal harassment for doing these things. It’s easy to see now it was all his projection…castigating other men for his own weaknesses.
The most important thing for the healing for other and, yes, for him as well, is for him to get out of the spotlight. At the root of this is narcissism and the need for attention and adoration (even negative attention). The only way he could be accepted back is if he took a long hiatus (years, not weeks) from being in the public eye. I’m not hopeful that this will be the choice he makes.
September 5, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Kathy Shaidle (@kshaidle)
The unsurprising sexism of male progressives:
http://takimag.com/article/the_unsurprising_sexism_of_male_progressives_kathy_shaidle/print
September 5, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Michael Whiteacre
As the writer who both revealed a ‘PCC students’ aspect of Schwyzer’s fall from grace — and also ran a subsequent interview with Schwyzer in which he repeated the lie that he had stopped sleeping with his students, this latest tawdry chapter is particularly unwelcome.
In my conversations with Hugo since his fall, just as in his media interviews, he always highlighted the point that he had not been sleeping with his own students — but he also remarked to me that his tenured position was one of the things keeping him going, and expressed concern about the PCC administration’s reaction to the revelations in the article to which I link, above. I assume he felt he had to cling to this last fiction for the sake of his solvency and in the hope that his life and family might someday be restored.
September 5, 2013 at 1:37 pm
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September 5, 2013 at 4:22 pm
verdantsamuel
Reblogged this on Verdant Handshake.
September 5, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Angus Johnston
Note: I’ve edited Michael Whiteacre’s comment to remove the link to an article in which personal text-message exchanges were published without the writers’ consent. I’ve left the rest of the comment intact.
September 5, 2013 at 7:19 pm
michaelwhiteacre
Mr. Johnson — The problem is, that is another of Christina’s lies. On February 23, 2013, she asked me, in writing, to post screencaps of her conversations with Schwyzer online. After Schwyzer contacted her and begged her to get them pulled, she asked me to do so and I agreed. That does not invalidate her waiver of privacy in those communications, however.
Last month, after he confessed to infidelities, Schwyzer contacted me and asked me to post his sexting exchanges. He then did a interview with TheRealPornWikiLeaks and even suggested specific screencaps to include with the interview. Therefore, your assertion that the article contains “personal text-message exchanges [that] were published without the writers’ consent” is erroneous, and I ask that you restore the link.
This is a fine site with excellent commentary; please don’t turn it into another censorious hugbox.
September 5, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Angus Johnston
It’s my understanding that CP doesn’t currently want those texts online. As an ethical matter, that’s good enough for me.
If anyone’s really interested in reading your posts, they should have no trouble finding them.
September 5, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Brigid Keely
Considering that part of his “punishment” for sleeping with students the first time was that he WROTE THE SEXUAL GUIDELINES IN THE HANDBOOK what the… what the what! Seriously! Just what the helllll! This is so gross for so many reasons.
September 5, 2013 at 7:42 pm
michaelwhiteacre
Mr. Johnson, CP didn’t want the proof that she filed a false police report published online, either. Subjects frequently resist having the truth revealed, particularly when their stock and trade is falsely playing the victim card.
When I studied journalism a long time ago, way back in the 1980s, we learned that our job was to resist catering to the whims, regrets and desires of our subjects: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” ~ George Orwell
Good luck with the site.
September 5, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Inga M
Of course, he should stay teaching at PCC. It is a well known fact, that after an individual confesses though social media, they get cleansed off all their unhealthy desires.
Honestly, though, I wish he would forever be teaching in a little college (smaller than PCC), and not receive all this fame he is so helplessly striving for.
September 5, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Angus Johnston
Michael, I’m really comfortable with the setup we have now, in which I decide what I publish on my site, and you decide what you publish on yours.
If I want to make any changes to it, I’ll let you know.
September 5, 2013 at 7:55 pm
michaelwhiteacre
Mr. Johnson, that suits me just fine, and I sincerely hope that someday your site is successful.
September 5, 2013 at 8:06 pm
Angus Johnston
Thanks, Mr. Whitaker!
September 6, 2013 at 12:17 am
Liz
I’m mystified why his Twitter meltdown was front page news but his disclosure that he still sleeps with students has barely made a blip in the blogosphere.
I’m depressed to think this is because this behavior between professors and students is more common than I realized. It doesn’t even raise eyebrows any more. Can you imagine if Schwyzer was a person of color?
The alternative explanation is that there is just general Schwyzer fatigue and people want the whole thing to go away.
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September 6, 2013 at 8:48 am
Angus Johnston
Liz, I can’t help but think that if Schwyzer were just an unknown male gender studies prof who’d admitted screwing students, the feminist blogosphere, at least, would be all over it.
There’s an element of embarrassment to what’s happening — people not wanting to dredge up their own complicity. There’s definitely Schwyzer fatigue operating. There’s concern that giving him attention is giving him what he wants (Though giving him attention that helps to get him fired? Call me skeptical.). There are probably still some folks who are scared about retribution. And there are some people who still like him, and others who pity him and don’t want to pile on.
But that’s just a list, it’s not an explanation. And I gotta admit that it doesn’t completely satisfy me either. I’m a bit mystified too.
September 6, 2013 at 1:11 pm
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[…] The man who Googles his name and sends his supporters to harass his critics admits he was doing yet …. Johnston makes a point I want to reiterate: the man admits to fucking his students and lying about it. Where’s the outrage? The man has a “breakdown” on Twitter and there are a million stories throughout the blogosphere and interviews with him. Dude admits to fucking students he’s teaching and… nothing… silence. Why? It is simply not possible that there’s anyone left who believes these were wholly consensual relationships–or frankly, even capable of being so. The man has a track record of manipulation and grooming and, while I respect that his students might at the moment feel like they consented, I think it’s also obvious that the man presents to people a truth about himself only so far as it helps him get what he wants. And there’s simply no way that a sexual relationship between a student and a professor he or she currently has is free of issues like “can I say ‘no’ and not have it affect my grade?” […]
September 6, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Zoe Blunt (@blunt1)
Dickbaggery is a disabling condition? WHO KNEW.
September 6, 2013 at 3:35 pm
April. (@AprilTara)
I sincerely hope, for PCC’s sake and the sake of its students, that the line between mental illness and serial sexual predator can be made very clear. He’s doing a disservice for people who truly are coping with a disability in the form of mental illness by using it as an excuse for just being a pig.
Also, I appreciate your handling of Mr. Whiteacre’s comments and for not allowing him to use your website as yet another place to indulge in his personal vendetta against his ex. The dude needs to move on already.
September 6, 2013 at 4:21 pm
michaelwhiteacre
LOL at “April” Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that we would have no actual evidence of Schwyzer’s indiscretions if not for me…
It’s amusing when people like you try to cast a person defending himself against vicious and untrue attacks, stalking and harassment — in a war he did not start — as someone with a “vendetta” who just “needs to move on already.”
Of course, it couldn’t *possibly* be the fault of the female in this equation… There’s just *no way* she could be the one with a vendetta… Just as there is no way she was manipulating Schwyzer into sending texts, pics and videos of himself — I mean, just because she has a history of collecting blackmail evidence on people, and just because she (like Hugo) admits she suffers with Borderline Personality Disorder, that couldn’t *possibly” mean she plays people, right?
[Remainder of comment snipped. —AJ]
September 6, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Angus Johnston
Michael, you’ve got plenty of places on the internet to post this stuff, and I’m not interested in hosting it here. Move along.
September 7, 2013 at 12:11 am
John Valdez
Sick.
It’s all already been said.
Count me in the group that says the guy deserves to be unceremoniously fired.
September 7, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Armchair
I just wanted to say thanks to Angus for his important truth-telling wrt Schwyzer over the years. You’ve been entirely fair and factual. I’m just a random Internet feminist but it was some of your earlier work about Schwyzer that helped inform me about why he was not to be trusted as a feminist or ally, and your continuing coverage is entirely appropriate., Also appreciate your curtailing of Mr. Whiteacre’s obnoxiousness.
September 8, 2013 at 12:27 am
Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
And to think that I actually felt sorry for this fucktard after the sexting scandal broke. I virulently disagree with Hugo regarding his “feminist analysis” of many things, but I’ve also felt that he was being piled on by both the MRAs and certain feminists for purely ideological reasons.
Now we find out that everything his worst detractors ever accused him of was simply 100% true.
It’s Hugo’s bloody hypocrisy that enfuriates me. Here’s a guy who was writing about how horriible intergenerational relationships are, something I personally disagree with, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult. I argued with him about that one on TGMPM and his own blog. I said “Look, as long as it’s all out in the open, no gross power differentials are involved and everyone knows what’s going on, I don’t see what the big deal is. You can’t coddle people regarding their sexual choices forever. Sooner or later, you need to say ‘They’re an adult and they can decide for themselves’. I know a lot of people who are in perfectly fine intergenerational relationships and I think you’re wrong to try and whip up prejudice against them.”
And pious Hugo, lecturing all and sundry about how intergenerational relationships were “necessarily abusive”, And all the while, he’s fucking his undergrads. Generalzing his particulars, apparently.
September 8, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Julian
Hi Angus,
Thanks for writing about this.
I contacted Hugo a couple of weeks ago to emphasize his need to stop seeking public attention and to stop writing publicly or doing interviews. He clearly cannot–I mean will not–stop himself. I also sent him links to posts I’ve written (critically) about him. From one of those:
In my experience, the white men who find feminism of interest who are also predators, are predatory not because of moral failings, as Hugo has argued, but because of this combination of conditions: structural location, positioned above and over people they oppress; unearned entitlements; white and male privileges; institutional protections; colonialist values, mindset, and worldview; unstigmatised abuses of power; the desire and will to perpetrate (whether owned consciously or not); and socially and personally organised access to one’s victims. As child molesters seek out environments where children gather, so too do misogynist predators seek out social spaces where women gather. … [H]e practices a kind of savvy ownership of privileges and entitlements while retaining all his rights and capabilities to act them out abusively.
To Thomas, I would not assume that his past and present abusive behaviors or his history of mental illness precludes him from obtaining professional work or that there’s no place for him in this world. He clearly has enough privilege to do the work he’s done or it would have ended long ago. A monastery isn’t the right place for him: prison is.
One curious piece of this story is that I heard a supervisor at City College made him, the pro-feminist, write the policy making faculty-student sexual relationships actionable. If true, even doing that didn’t serve as a motivator to end his predation. The white male supremacist arrogance is both stunning and terribly normal.
Here are two more excerpts about him and how he talks about his controversial behavior:
Political harm isn’t primarily a “controversy”; such a way of speaking about the harm one has done is minimising of its effect, instead focusing on the social effect of the news hitting the media, for example. In reality, white men’s political harm is normal and frequent. Privileged people want our behavior to always be in process and to always be seen as very multi-faceted; there are always more and more self-protecting and self-deluding ways that rapists, batterers, and other sexual predators and terrorists want to be seen by critics. How they view themselves is usually with far more compassion and nuance than they reserve for those they harm. Among more sociopathic perpetrators, their views of themselves tend to repeatedly highlight areas of their own victimisation (past and present) over that of their victims (past and present).
The on-going confessions only make him appear to take personal responsibility and be remorseful. In actual courtrooms and in the court of public opinion, a combination of earnestly stated self-responsibility and remorse, not an end to the harmful behavior, is unfortunately what most liberal-minded people want to see in order to forgive and move on. With the same amount of access to potential victims and unmitigated power to act out one’s entitlements and privileges in abusive ways, we can expect the behavior to continue, with or without amends and apologies.
If interested, here’s the whole post:
http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-should-hugo-schwyzer-do-moving.html
September 8, 2013 at 1:28 pm
tweesdad
Can someone please provide a link to Hugo’s Youtube video referred to in this article?
September 8, 2013 at 1:42 pm
tweesdad
Never mind, found it – please delete my comments. I searched for “Hugo Schwyzer youtube channel” by the way. Good work on this site bringing all the sources together. Yes he should resign.
September 8, 2013 at 4:33 pm
AMM
My first exposure to HS was through seeing his website a few years ago, where I read him bragging about seducing his students (he spun it in a more positive way, of course.) The overall picture I got of him was that “ethics” and ethical conduct are just a word-game to him. And that I would not ever want to find myself alone in a room with him, under any circumstances. (And I’m male!) I’ve been struggling for years to explain to myself why anyone is willing to have anything to do with him. Here is what I’ve come up with:
1. (Liz’s view) He’s white, male and part of the power structure, and this is an automatic “get out of jail free” card for all offenses except those against the power structure itself. Feminists are just as susceptible to this as anyone else, due to internalized racism/Patriarchy/etc. Cf.: the difference between how crack users/dealers (lower class, non-white) and pwder cocain users (white, privileged) are treated.
2. Having a white male professional promote feminist ideas gives them a legitimacy in the minds of both the public and (female) feminists that they would not have if they were only promoted by mere women. The legitimacy is worth putting up with a little bad behavior.
3. He’s good with words, and many people in liberal and social justice circles are verbally oriented people who tend to confuse what is said about something with the thing itself. (Hat tip to Temple Grandin’s book “Animals in Translation” for this idea.) By describing his unethical and/or abusive behavior in words that sound virtuous, he gets people to believe that the behavior is virtuous, too.
4. HS’s behavior — and PCC’s non-response — are not all that unusual. Men murdering their girlfriends or wives is a daily occurrence in every city in the USA, it barely makes the news. And every college and university in the USA knows of (male) professors who seduce or force themselves upon female (sometimes even male) students, but they look the other way unless and until it becomes too blatant to ignore. It’s dismissed as “not serious” or “consensual” or “her word against his.” HS’s behavior doesn’t seem worthy of note because it’s what we see all the time.
Any other explanations?
September 8, 2013 at 10:00 pm
Julian
To address this probably rhetorical point from Liz to the group discussion here, “Can you imagine if Schwyzer was a person of color?” That has been a topic of discussion for me offline. I suspect if he were not white, his/her mental illness would be seen as “typical of her/his people”, not a matter of personal history and present stressors.
What irritates me no end is that he comes through this not with a birth-to-death raced group-level stigma, but instead with a particular diagnosis he flagrantly publicises. And he does this fully in service to a legal defence, wielding a “bipolar disorder/depression/sex addiction/[fill in the blank]” condition in court if he wishes, should he be fired.
S/he would also not likely be teaching Women’s and Gender Studies courses in any white-run and majority-white academy and if s/he did, s/he not likely have tenure. I cannot help but compare this to the case of Andrea Smith: http://voicingindigeneity.blogspot.com/2008/02/tenure-for-andrea-smith.html. She’s had to fight for tenure *without* having slept with her students or committing gross acts of professional and sexual exploitation and abuse. He gets to maintain his tenured position while having done *all that* and more. As mentioned above, no telling how many white male professors are doing the same with and without their supervisor’s knowledge and permission.
No doubt he’s loving all this attention to fuel his ‘woe is me’ narrative. But as long as we call for his removal from his place of employment, and as long as he’s never allowed to teach anywhere ever again, and as long as connections are made to the larger political-social issues–perhaps supporting the voices of more victims and survivors of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape on and off college campuses, I believe it’s worth speaking up. The public should not being silent as long as he is employed-and-dangerous.
September 9, 2013 at 10:32 am
Vancouverois
I’m just stunned at the people commenting on his blog who are obviously still desperate to downplay his transgressions, make excuses for him, and denigrate anyone who takes issue with what he’s done. It’s amazing.
I wish I could believe they were all just his sock puppets (fake accounts he’s created for himself under other names). But I don’t.
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Hugo Schwyzer is qualified to teach Medieval British and Ecclesiastical history. That’s what he’s studied formally. He may yet have insights to offer in these areas. He might ought to only teach male students, but … Naah, crucify the sonofabitch. It’s what he wants y’all to do. Fits his grandiosity.
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