{"id":142058,"date":"2021-02-17T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142058"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:29:42","slug":"here-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are The Professors Disparaging Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhere-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Following the announcement of the passing of conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, professors immediately flocked to Twitter to express their excitement.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Limbaugh passed away nearly four months after announcing that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He was 70 years old.<\/p>\n<p>It took just minutes after the announcement for professors from elite institutions across the country to mock Limbaugh\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Parcak, an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, said she hoped that Limbaugh suffered until his last breath. \u201cWhen a terrible piece of scum who caused immeasurable harm to millions dies, there is no sympathy,\u201d Parcak said. \u201cOnly a desire that they suffered until their last breath.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dr-Sarah-Parcak-300x222.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@indyfromspace via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a since-deleted tweet, James McMaster, an assistant professor in Asian American studies and gender and women\u2019s\/LGBTQ+ studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he was grateful the world lost Limbaugh. \u201cVery grateful that from today onward I will live in a world without Rush Limbaugh in it,\u201d McMaster said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191539\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/James-McMaster-300x144.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@jmcmaster29 via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in the Department of Gender &amp; Women\u2019s studies, Dr. Sami Schalk tweeted \u201cwelp\u201d to the news of Limbaugh\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>Professor of education at the University of South Carolina, Nick Mariner, blamed Limbaugh for his childhood trauma. \u201cRush Limbaugh is almost singularly responsible for making my childhood home more hostile, more anti-intellectual, and more oppositional. He was the worst of us, and I lament all the pretenders who want to fill his spot. #GoodRiddance,\u201d Mariner tweeted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191541\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nick-Mariner-300x165.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@thegoodmariner via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stephen Young, an adjunct faculty member in religious studies at Appalachian State University, said Limbaugh\u2019s legacy will live in eternal shame. \u201cRush is dead and his shame is eternal. Save your mourning energy for activism to dismantle the evil world he helped build. May his name be an instructive curse forever,\u201d Young tweeted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191542\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stephen-Young-300x292.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@slyprofessor via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In another since-deleted tweet, Yale professor of law and philosophy Scott Shapiro tweeted, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I was happy that Rush Limbaugh died. It\u2019s more like euphoria.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191543\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Scott-Shapiro-300x145.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@scottjshapiro via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Professor Lora Burnett at Collin College in Texas tweeted \u201c#BIH Rush Limbaugh.\u201d \u201cBIH\u201d stands for \u201cburn in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191544\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lora-Burnett-300x126.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@ldburnett via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another Collin College professor, Michael Phillips, wrote an obituary for Limbaugh. \u201cHe was a horrible human being beloved by the worst people on the planet. That\u2019s my obit,\u201d Phillips wrote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dr-Phillips-300x198.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@drphillips2001 via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul Thomas, a professor at Furman University, said not even cancer is a good enough excuse to mourn the life of Limbaugh. \u201cDeath and the tragedy of cancer in no way erase the facts of a person being a genuinely horrible entity that made a fortune at the expense of others. With almost no consequences,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cDeath is no excuse for silence around evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191546\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Paul-Thomas-300x202.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@plthomasedd via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Erik Loomis, a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, tweeted, \u201cpour one out for Rush Limbaugh\u2019s pill dealers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191547\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Erik-Loomis-300x120.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@erikloomis via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill retweeted an article about how she believed Limbaugh was a racist. The <a href=\"https:\/\/newsone.com\/16051\/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes\/\">article<\/a> was titled, \u201cRush Limbaugh\u2019s Most Racist Quotes: A Timeline Of Destructive Commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the radio legend\u2019s death, the hashtag \u201c#goodriddance\u201d and \u201cRest in Piss\u201d began trending on Twitter. Mariam Durrani, an assistant professor of anthropology at Hamilton College in New York, called the hashtag \u201cquality afternoon viewing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe #goodriddance situation is quality afternoon viewing,\u201d Durrani said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191549\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mariam-Durrani-300x129.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@mariamdurrani via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia tweeted that he had a slew of \u201ctasteless\u201d jokes running through his mind. \u201cThere are so many tasteless Rush jokes running through my brain right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191550\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/David-Walsh-300x117.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>@davidastinwalsh via Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rebecca Goetz, an associate professor of history at New York University responded by saying, \u201coh no anything that mocks that asshole is in very good taste [in my honest opinion].\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191552\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-191552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rebecca-Goetz-300x162.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-191552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@historianess via Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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