Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (left) imprisoned and tortured Armando Valladares (right) for
refusing to support the communist revolution with sufficient ardor.
Imagine a professor at a popular Division I university sending an email to an ex-political prisoner, who spent 22 years in a Cuban gulag, simply to insult and harangue him for expressing an opinion on his oppressor. The target of the hate-mail was Armando Valladares, who was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International when he was locked up and tortured in a Cuban prison for 22 years. The email, sent directly to Valladares, told the aging victim that he “deserve(d) to be in jail” because of the “stupidities that you wrote.”
The professor that sent the email is Dennis Seager, who teaches Spanish at Oklahoma State University. Seager’s CV lists his published works, which include a book on “the epistemology of metadiegetic narrative,” and a hagiography to a terrorist poet.
Here is Seager’s email to a man that has dedicated his life to securing the human rights of others, after he spent twenty two years being tortured in a Cuban communist prison for refusing to display a sign on his desk supportive of communism:
Viva la revolucion! Cabron, for the stupidities you wrote you deserve to still be in Jail (in Cuba)..Why can't you understand that the God in which you so believe has permitted the (Cuban) Revolution, because idiots like you don't realize that it's the (Cuban) Revolution and not The Church that helps the poor"
Seager’s execrable missive was ostensibly in response to an article Valladares wrote about the Pope’s upcoming visit to Cuba. It is not uncommon for major universities to have a number of quack professors, but it is indeed rare to employ a faculty member so ideologically blinded with hatred that he would directly insult a decades-long victim of torture by a totalitarian communist regime.
(HT-BabaluBlog
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