{"id":70953,"date":"2021-06-26T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70953"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:22:27","slug":"blow-up-republicans-libtard-professors-can-get-away-with-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70953","title":{"rendered":"“Blow Up Republicans” — LIbtard professors can get away with anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Blow Up Republicans”<\/strong>: UNC (Wilmington) Professor Triggers Firestorm With Call For Killing Conservatives<\/h1>\n

Authored by Jonathan Turley<\/p>\n

Dan Johnson<\/a>\u00a0is an associate professor at the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences at University of North Carolina Wilmington with apparently equal interest in politics and polytechnics.\u00a0He posted a short but clear message on Facebook: \u201cBlow Up Republicans.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The detonation of people seems to be in vogue with professors this year<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As will come as little surprise to many on this blog, I do not believe Johnson should face discipline for his violent political ideations.<\/p>\n

Campus Reform reports<\/a>\u00a0objections to the handling of the controversy by the school, which only stated\u00a0that \u201c[t]he university was made aware of the post and has appropriately addressed it.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Johnson took down the posting.<\/p>\n

Haylie Davis, a former student of Johnson\u2019s, is quoted as objecting to the lack of more serious action and notes that\u00a0the school would not be so circumspect \u201cif the word \u2018Republican\u2019 was replaced with any other word. If the post stated \u2018Blow up women,\u2019 \u2018Blow up homosexuals,\u2019 \u2018Blow up Catholics,\u2019 etc.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a good point.<\/p>\n

We have discussed the sharply different treatment given statements by faculty depending on their political or social perspectives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have defended faculty who have made similarly disturbing comments\u00a0denouncing police<\/a>,\u00a0calling for Republicans to suffer<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0strangling police officers<\/a>,\u00a0celebrating the death of conservatives<\/a>,\u00a0calling for the killing of Trump supporters<\/a>, supporting the\u00a0murder of conservative protesters\u00a0<\/a>and other outrageous statements. These comments were not protested as creating an \u201cunsafe environment\u201d and were largely ignored by universities. However, professors and students are routinely investigated, suspended, and sanctioned for countervailing views. There were also controversies at the\u00a0University of California<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Boston University<\/a>, where there have been criticism of such a double standard,\u00a0even in the face of criminal conduct<\/a>. There was also such an incident at the University of London involving\u00a0Bahar Mustafa<\/a>\u00a0as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor. Some intolerant statements against students are deemed free speech while\u00a0others are deemed hate speech<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0basis for university action<\/a>. There is a\u00a0lack of consistency or uniformity<\/a>\u00a0in these actions which turn on the specific groups left aggrieved by out-of-school comments.\u00a0 There is also a tolerance of faculty and students tearing down fliers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0stopping the speech of conservatives<\/a>.\u00a0 Indeed, even\u00a0faculty who assaulted pro-life advocates was supported by faculty and lionized for her activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we have previously discussed (with an Oregon professor<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0Rutgers professor)<\/a>, there remains an uncertain line in what language is protected for teachers in their private lives. A conservative North Carolina professor\u00a0\u00a0faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire<\/a>. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, had long been a lightning rod of controversy.\u00a0In 2014, we discussed his prevailing in a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0that alleged discrimination due to his conservative views.\u00a0 He was then targeted again after an inflammatory tweet calling North Carolina a \u201cslave state.\u201d\u00a0 That led to his being pressured to resign with a settlement. He then\u00a0committed suicide<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0efforts to fire professors<\/a>\u00a0who voice dissenting views on various issues<\/strong>\u00a0including\u00a0an effort to oust a leading economist from the University of Chicago<\/a>\u00a0as well as a\u00a0leading linguistics professor at Harvard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0a literature professor at Penn<\/a>. Sites like\u00a0Lawyers, Guns, and Money<\/em>\u00a0feature writers like Colorado Law Professor Paul Campus who call for the firing of those with opposing views (including myself<\/a>).\u00a0 Such campaigns have targeted\u00a0teachers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0students<\/a>\u00a0who contest the evidence of systemic racism in the use of lethal force by police or offer other opposing views in current debates over the pandemic,\u00a0reparations<\/a>, electoral fraud, or other issues.<\/p>\n

It is not just universities. Almost on the one-year anniversary of its\u00a0condemning its own publication<\/a>\u00a0of a column by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (and forcing out its own editor), the New York Times\u00a0published an academic columnist who previously defended the killing of conservative protesters<\/a>. Over at the Washington Post this week, the newspaper\u00a0promoted a columnist<\/a>, Karen Attiah, who last summer caused an outrage after she tweeted \u201cWhite women are lucky that we are just calling them Karens. And not calling for revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the bias and hypocrisy shown by universities, I still would defend Johnson and his right to express such views on social media. Unfortunately, such hyperbolic and violent language is common today.<\/strong>\u00a0While academics should be examples of greater tolerance and civility, the danger of such regulation is greater than the cost of such speech. Indeed, this week, the free speech community secured a significant victory in the ruling in\u00a0Mahonoy<\/em>\u00a0on out-of-school speech by a high school student<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The failure of many on the left to support diversity of viewpoints does not mean that the rest of us are relieved of our own obligation to support free speech.\u00a0<\/strong>While many of us are repulsed by Professor Johnson\u2019s dreams of blowing up Republicans, sanctions on such speech could easily become a nightmare for free speech.<\/p>\n

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