The man maybe a joke but what he thinks laughs at aren’t. What if whimsy was pedophile?

Chris Graham, editor of New Matilda, which broke the story, described the emails as extreme hate-speech.

“He doesn’t just object to Aboriginal people who he calls Abos and human garbage, he makes references to ‘Mussies’; ‘Chinky-poos’ is a word that he uses frequently; he’s very dismissive of women,” Mr Graham told the ABC.

The emails were written over the past two years and sent to senior academics and officials within the university.

One said “Abo-lover” Mr Abbott would have to be surgically separated from his “Siamese Twin”, Australian of the Year Adam Goodes.

He also said Sydney University Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson was an “appalling minx”, while other women were “whores”.

A group of up to 100 students protested outside Professor Spurr’s office today, demanding his sacking.

Professor says emails part of a game

Professor Spurr, a specialist in poetry and poetics who has been at the university for 38 years, defended the emails and told New Matilda they were mainly to one recipient and were part of a “whimsical” game to outdo one another in extreme statements.

He said they were in no way a reflection of his views.The University of Sydney said it was “deeply disturbed” by the emails and was investigating the matter.

Australian Education Union federal president Angelo Gavrielatos said someone with such outdated ideas should never have been chosen to review the national English curriculum.

“The review is ostensibly about restoring balance to an imbalanced curriculum,” he said.

“These views are hardly the views that one would describe as balanced.”

Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane was worried the emails might also reflect the way the academic behaves.

“It does raise questions about whether this will translate into unfair treatment of others,” Mr Soutphommasane said.

“People may well think that racism is just a whimsical game of words, but ultimately it’s something that wounds others.”

Gabrielle Pei Tiatia, Ethnic Affairs Officer with the University of Sydney’s Students Representative Council, called on the university’s Vice-Chancellor to sack Professor Spurr immediately.

Undergraduate Student Fellow of the University Senate, Patrick Massarani, doubted there was any reasonable explanation for the comments.

“I’m exceptionally disappointed in having seen the comments that have been made,” he said.

“As a student, I do wonder how somebody who could make these comments could be placed in any sort of pastoral care role within the university.”

Our new laws on terror certainly believe ideology Islam, Marxism, Racism influence a persons thinking. ASIO certainly doesn’t regard it as whimsical or a game. They believe it needs to be taken very seriously. Andrew Bolt would are up in alms at the whimsy climate alarmists will bring to the ABC review board. It’s no joke to the right wing critics of the ABC. This is a far more serious a matter to be called a joke