Liberals Gone Mad!: The Campus Responds to Out of Ivy

Below is a small sample of responses I received from Brown students in response to my book, Out of Ivy. The big point here is not the vulgarity, but the hate. And also the inclination to avoid discourse, and spit vitriolic insults meant to make me feel dumb and bigoted. Ironically, this is the Left I try to describe in Out of Ivy. These are the people that a politically ignorant student found very unattractive.

There were SO MANY “Do not spam me” replies, many of them absent of hateful words. Even though those particular responses were not as hateful as the others, they still demonstrates the liberal inclination to avoid argument and create an offense. “Ugh, I’m so offended! Spam, my gosh!” So pathetic. The only response I got to Out of Ivy’s release from these people was “Ugh! Spammer!” and “He’s writing his own book reviews on Amazon!”, and of course, many vitriolic comments about how mean, dumb, and bigoted I am. There was never an attempt to logically engage my politics.

Spam? I wrote a book about Brown! How about, “Brown students are my primary audience!” Offensive spam? Or target market?

“Rowley, stop sending me emails and go fuck yourself. I don’t care which one you do first.”

“This school gave you the means to whore your ‘stifled intellect’ to a demographic just begging to be offended by your views, didn’t it? More to the point, QUIT FUCKING SPAMMING FOR YOUR CRAPPY BOOK!”

“you’re an embarrassment to Brown. Stop spamming our mailbox. take your pathetic college experience and keep it to yourself.”

“Though I am hardly the most outspoken ‘liberal’ or ‘feminist,’ I hope they will excuse me here if I extend on behalf of the large community of Brown students who actually do not believe they would be better off transferring elsewhere, a demonstration of the powers of free speech in offering you a big, ‘FUCK YOU!’ And no I won’t buy your shitty book, you little cunt.”

“Stop spamming me with e-mails, asshat. P.S. You are a douche. P.P.S. If you don’t remove me from your email list I will lodge a complaint with the FCC.”

“ew. you are gross. I don’t want to buy your lame ass book. I read some of it, and it convinced me that you don’t actually have a legitimate intellectual argument, but rather, that you are just a dumb pissed off white man with nothing interesting to say, as I expected. I reiterate: ewwwww.”

“Take me off your goddamn (yes I said GOD!) list now, I’m not going to by your piece of shit book. I like Brown. I am a huge LIBERAL, FEMINIST, HIPPY. DO NOT EMAIL ME AGAIN. You are a disgusting asshole for saying anything like ‘bring sexual harassment’ anywhere. You clearly have no respect for women. DO NOT EMAIL ME AGAIN”