MSU Interim President John Engler says Nassar survivors are 'enjoying' the 'spotlight'
Source: Yahoo News
A statement Michigan State University Interim President John Engler made to The Detroit News editorial board late last week is the subject of backlash after the Detroit Metro Times put focus on it this week and national outlets picked it up.
In an interview with the News, Engler alluded that the gymnasts abused by Larry Nassar are enjoying their moment in the spotlight while also insisting the university is done with investigations so that everyone can get back to work. This all while Nassars survivors are footing the bill for counseling and therapy that they were told a fund set up by MSU would provide.
Englers controversial comments came as the close to an article about the Healing Assistance Fund approved by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees. It calls for the reinstatement of a fund meant to pay for counseling costs of those sexually abused by Larry Nassar.
The article focuses on who would be able to dip into the fund, with Engler suggesting it would be for survivors not part of the primary settlement that was determined earlier this year. From the Detroit News:
Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/msu-interim-president-john-engler-says-nassar-survivors-enjoying-spotlight-203706386.html
Of course he's a Republican. Or, as Martina Navratilova tweeted, "What a DICK!!!!"
Link to tweet
AJT
(5,240 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,032 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)dhill926
(16,391 posts)yesterday...
RockRaven
(15,096 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)of Michigan. Seems nothing has changed.
salin
(48,955 posts)(well, I went to grad school - but he was horrible.)
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)well
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)would like to protest this. Those of us with dicks and those that admire dicks, have no desire whatsoever to be associated with this asshole.
......... We are actually ashamed that this asshole has a dick...
To be serious for moment. This fellow needs to be fired immediately for such a completely stupid and insensitive statement... Someone should stick a long poll up his ass and wiggle it around for a while to imitate a fucked up medical exam by a fucked up doctor who is also an asshole...!!!!
I guess that was not serious, but again sarcastic...
I have never read any statement so insensitive to people who have been the victims of this kind of abuse..
...How could anyone even think of saying something like this?. And I believe he will be gone by the end of the week, if not sooner. No state university can afford anyone this stupid and insensitive..(no matter what degrees this person has)
erronis
(15,470 posts)Good rant, Stuart G!
brush
(53,978 posts)This guy has a doctorate and is that stupid.
You've think he'd have an internal filter that would set off alarm bells in his brain before something that repulsive would roll off his tongue.
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)Fuck him.
marble falls
(57,540 posts)unemployment check.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)louis-t
(23,315 posts)He's a smart ass and a huckster.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Man (not all men!!!!), this old (not all old people!!!) guy (not all guys!!!!) is an idiot (not all idiots!!!!).
(to avoid triggering the broflakes looking to be oppressed...)
akraven
(1,975 posts)Good move, jerkwad.
As a (way) former gymnast, I can attest that there is a LOT of sexual abuse (mostly verbal, some physical) with male coaches.
But Nasser takes the yuuuuuuuge cuppycake.
FUCK OFF ENGLER!
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)"should be fired - yesterday!" statement.
I would truly hope there is immediate action to get him out of there.
If not, the institution will seem to be continuing its ignorant absence of sensitivity, understanding, and moral conviction to do the right thing, both for those already abused and for future students to know that such abuse is not tolerated.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)erronis
(15,470 posts)(R), the dump family and friends, the sexual predators, the RW KKK/natzi emulators.
It's like: Let's find out how much we can get away with. And there are some koch-suckers/ilk that'll keep us good.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)By portraying them as enjoying this. I'm sure that's what they were told then, too.
llmart
(15,569 posts)When he was appointed Interim President, those of us that knew about him were like WTF? Tell me what credentials he has for running a public university. But of course you can be a complete failure as governor of a state and then get another job with a six-figure salary because the good ole' boy network keeps recirculating these losers.
What a disgusting comment to make.
WestMichRad
(1,349 posts)from his record as MI governor, this becomes the new exhibit #1 and removes all doubt.
What a disgusting slimeball!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Because universities have repeatedly shown there is no depth they won't sink to in the name of protecting their almighty "program"