Deconstructing the Rott'ing Professor

This is an unwelcome but necessary task -- Tommy's disciples state their case well, "we forsake you / gonna rape you / let's forget you, better still."  Still, inspired by fleeting success in hitting Google's first page results for "wackaloon" I forge onward to this odious chore, the de-construction of uranium-clad stoopid lobbed out of the UNL compound by one Rott'ing Professor. At least Lincoln's Cable-Access Communist had the decency to engage his many detractors from time to time. The Rott'ing Professor seems to prefer a Lone Gunman style, one that I understand and appreciate myself.  So here goes, sniper-a-sniper....

One more thing: this ain't Big-J journalism.  None of it.  If you expect things never to change, make your own copies.  Over here it's always a work in progress.

It's actually quite simple

He's a dry Christian.  Probably one of the mainstream Protestants. The cognitive dissonance exists only in the small linguistic space surrounding the definition of "atheist" versus the word one uses for a church member who no longer attends the services

Everything else is of a piece: The labels and name-calling, the obsession with superficial detail and the smugness of a back-of-the-pack follower chiming in but always a half-step out of sync with Dear Leader.  The "I've got mine" Republicanism and its projected self-hatred, fueled by shame (cognitive dissonance again) of barking "small government" to the grumbling truth of trillions of dollars of national debt.  To spotlight just a few.

Affirmative Action explained

The Rott'ing Professor might have entered the so-called Affirmative Action fray by following a fetish [links needed].  His plastered-over Christianity provides a more efficient explanation. Let's join Elizabeth Castelli's essay Identity Politics and the "War on Christians"

...[S]ince 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has hired many fewer lawyers with civil rights experience. "At the same time, the kinds of cases the Civil Rights Division is bringing have undergone a shift. The division is bringing fewer voting rights and employment cases involving systematic discrimination against African-Americans, and more alleging reverse discrimination against whites and religious discrimination against Christians" (Savage). In this latter move, we see some effects of the "war on Christians" movement's pragmatic and strategic efforts to lay claim to the historical legacy of the civil rights movement: the legitimation and routinization of a new, Christian identity politics based on the historical model of struggle against racial discrimination by African Americans but displacing African Americans and their ongoing claims for political and economic justice in the process. As the battle over "true victimhood" (Cole) continues to be waged, the emergence of Christians as the singular exemplars of innocent victims in the "war on Christians" presents a complicated new chapter in the ongoing debates within American society about identity and rights, injustice and its redress, and the very foundations of democracy and its reach.
...[W]hat political theorist William Connolly has dubbed “the evangelical-
capitalist resonance machine” takes over (869), and we are left with the
Christian persecution complex—a discursive entity impervious to critique,
self-generating and self-sustaining.

All Republican talking (and action) points, and all in service to fundagelical Christians - even those who profess *cough* atheism.