Syracuse prof proclaims, justifies bias against Republicans in memo sent to class

In his email, Professor Mark Rupert who teaches the course “Critical Issues for the United States” distinguishes between conservative views he will respect and those he will not tolerate. "In particular," he wrote, "President Trump's racism, misogyny, and xenophobia are not just another political philosophy to be seriously considered and debated, but hateful ideas that we must be honest about."

In the memo he attached, Rupert claimed he is "fair to all serious intellectual viewpoints.” He listed the general beliefs in individual rights and traditional values as “intellectually respectable positions and historically significant in the foundation of the contemporary conservative movement.”

“But this is not the same as assuming that the contemporary Republican party is acting in good faith in its political practices," he wrote.

Rupert alleged that “the GOP has systematically used coded racial appeals to mobilize white voters since the era of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts." He added that the party supporting Trump has "openly embraced racism and mendacity as the core of their politics."

“President Trump’s politics and policies are the culmination of a decades-long process of embracing racial divisiveness, hatred and fear as a partisan political tool,” Rupert continued.

He implied that anyone who believes otherwise is guilty of distorting history, listing Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza as an example of this. Rupert added that he regrets recommending students to attend a "fundamentally duplicitous" talk D'Souza gave at the university in 2016.

For added irony, Syracuse's student athletes are called "orangemen".