Dr. Blake Armstrong, a professor in the psychology department at South Texas College, told his students that the rise of the Nazi Party in the late 1920s and early 1930s was analogous to the rise of the Tea Party in the United States.
"In 1931, which was really interesting, the Nazis--people are kind of tired of them; they've been around since 1920, 11 years now, they've won seats--they're like the Tea Party! That's such a good example," Armstrong said during a lecture in November.
Armstrong quickly realized the implications of his comparison.
"Don't tell anybody I said that, though, 'the Tea Party are like the Nazis,' but, in the sense of how they politically came to power, there's a good analogy there," Armstrong said.
"Eventually people realized, 'oh, these Nazis, they're a bunch of nuts,'--these Tea Party people are a bunch of nuts!"
Armstrong joins a long tradition of left-wing professors hiding behind the guise of 'academic freedom' to make hateful and radical statements about their political opponents.