professor says Scott Walker and Hitler share so many similarities it's terrifying

"My Grandfather, a psychologist," halt.

That again. 

"Just walked me through similarities between Walker and Hitler," so many it's terrifying. 

I came to this site for a list of terrifying similarities between Walker and Hitler, she said there are so many, there can be no satisfaction without such a list of terrifying things. Wouldn't you like to see that? For fun?

This turns out a tweet from educational policies professor Sara Goldrich-Rab two weeks ago.

She also communicated other uncharitable things about Walker through tweets. She defends her comments fallaciously relying on appeal to authority, and questionable authority at that such as psychologists. "If you reread the tweet, (why would we? For parsing?) you will see that I stated that an expert in the field -- a psychoanalyst  (well then!) with decades of experience (that's two) -- compared the 'psychological characteristics' of the two individuals and I was struck by his analysis.

No list. 

Not even the original list that inspired her thinking, she just refers to it without producing it. 

No list at the College Fix either. The College Fix reached out to the professor to explain herself. We are to note that she takes time from her unpaid vacation to respond. She's confident readers can see the difference between a comparison of psychoanalytical evaluations between an historic despot and a modern governor/presidential candidate, and a comparison between two whole individuals. Surely. She's also confident we will note the tweet is not a "reaction" to any specific event and so does not fit the College Fix's narrative.

Whatever she imagines that to be, that she's reactionary. 

The whole thing seems absurd because of "tweets" but this is the professor's platform to the whole world, to whomever will pay attention.  She is angry about Walker attacking tenure and she said so. In her view it robs Wisconsin.

She also suggested that Walker would fire her to make an example. Fearing that, and saying that suggests that is what she would certainly do. Her tweets indicate she might be a bit high strung for parenting.

"You should hear my kids, trying to figure out what moving means. Walker is driving them out of their home state. He took mom's job."

A vast dark chasm of sympathy-void open and swallowed me just now, I survey the rock walls descending everything is dark gray, hard and falling away. But I do feel pangs of sorrow for those innocent children growing up with such an entitled and nervous woman controlling and in need of her hook and umbilical into the system she knows so well. A parasite in desperate need of a willing uncomplaining host.

She said her colleagues are looking around too. Like that's a bad thing. 

"[Legislators] had literally shattered their employees and students and they stand up and say 'thank you.' It's cowardly. We're the laughingstock of the nation." 

Also, Walker doesn't even have a college degree. "My five-year old busted out, 'Walker needs to go to college and get some more knowledge.' Whoa. She's way ahead."  

Yes, professor, with your help and your genes she's way ahead. 

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