UNC Professor suspended

CFordUNC said:
I hope this doesn’t happen, but I’m growing more and more concerned that UNC is going to become a case in point of what happens when a once respected, once elite public university becomes MAGAfied. We are already losing incredibly talented and accomplished faculty members and researchers left and right to other institutions. If this kind of political partisan bullshit continues to happen at UNC, we are going to look back on our time as a stalwart top five public university in America as firmly in the rearview mirror.
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No need to worry. It is happening. Just go ahead and make peace with it.
 
ChileG said:
So a group posted a flier sometime in the last week or so and therefore anyone last associated with the group seven years ago is held accountable?
Am I following this correctly?
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It's actually even more attenuated than that, because the group that posted the flier is "John Brown Gun Club" which is apparently related to Redneck Revolt (the Redneck Revolt website says "in states where it is legal to practice armed community defense, many branches choose to become John Brown Gun Clubs") and it's not clear that Dixon was ever in a group called "John Brown Gun Club."
 
The professor was once part of an Anti-Fascist group, but left the group 7 years ago. People change over time and he presumably left the group for a reason.

Isn’t it possible that he is now sufficiently docile towards fascism to satisfy the UNC PTBs?
 
I just wrote to the office of University development and told them they aren't going to get another dime from me until they reinstate him.

I don't have to give money to anti-anti-racist or anti-anti-fascist organizations, and I learned how to reduce fractions at UNC.
 
1moretimeagain said:
The professor was once part of an Anti-Fascist group, but left the group 7 years ago. People change over time and he presumably left the group for a reason.

Isn’t it possible that he is now sufficiently docile towards fascism to satisfy the UNC PTBs?
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He was arrested at a silent sam protest for assaulting someone. Charge dismissed. He was arrested at a Durham anti-KKK rally with a charge of terrorizing the public with a gun and another gun charge. Charges dismissed.

According to him, he was staring down/brandishing his gun at the guy in Charlottesville right before he drove into a crowd and murdered that lady.

Not saying any of that is worth being fired over, but I do think its well worth an investigation. Guy also sounds like a bit of a nutter who shouldn't have guns.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
He was arrested at a silent sam protest for assaulting someone. Charge dismissed. He was arrested at a Durham anti-KKK rally with a charge of terrorizing the public with a gun and another gun charge. Charges dismissed.

According to him, he was staring down/brandishing his gun at the guy in Charlottesville right before he drove into a crowd and murdered that lady.

Not saying any of that is worth being fired over, but I do think its well worth an investigation. Guy also sounds like a bit of a nutter who shouldn't have guns.
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You went into far too much detail there.

You simply had to say these things: He's anti-facist, anti-KKK, and was in favor of removing Silent Sam.

That's more than enough to get you fired in today's America. Welcome to our dystopian nightmare.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
He was arrested at a silent sam protest for assaulting someone. Charge dismissed. He was arrested at a Durham anti-KKK rally with a charge of terrorizing the public with a gun and another gun charge. Charges dismissed.

According to him, he was staring down/brandishing his gun at the guy in Charlottesville right before he drove into a crowd and murdered that lady.

Not saying any of that is worth being fired over, but I do think its well worth an investigation. Guy also sounds like a bit of a nutter who shouldn't have guns.
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The events you reference were all 7+ years ago. The idea that they merit a current investigation into him teaching is absurd.

We all know what happened here. He is suspended because TPUSA and Fox News called him out as possibly being affiliated with a group that is possibly affiliated with another group that possibly put out an offensive flyer at Georgetown University, with zero evidence that the professor himself even knew the flyer had been distributed, much less participated in it. As usual, though, you are perfectly willing to work hard to invent a supposedly reasonable narrative for this plainly illiberal action without having a care in the world for whether it bears any resemblance to reality.
 
ChileG said:
So a group posted a flier sometime in the last week or so and therefore anyone last associated with the group seven years ago is held accountable?
Am I following this correctly?
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And did the group actually post the flier? And how many fliers are there?
 
This is the question though...how far back do the investigations reach? There are videos of people promoting DEI, saying The Gulf of Mexico, or proclaiming fascism wrong -- of any number of currently "dangerous" observations and assertions.
 
Calheel said:
Can't speak to the other two, but he sounds like a national hero in your third example.
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I guess. The professor wasn't legally culpable for the guy that murdered the lady right after he waved a gun at him. He couldn't have forseen the murderer would floor it into a crowd right after but I do wonder if that lady would still be alive if he hadn't shown up to a protest with a gun.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I guess. The professor wasn't legally culpable for the guy that murdered the lady right after he waved a gun at him. He couldn't have forseen the murderer would floor it into a crowd right after but I do wonder if that lady would still be alive if he hadn't shown up to a protest with a gun.
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LOL I know I already talked about the hilarious lengths you’ll go to in order to create a hypothetical that’s sympathetic to your position but this is next level.
 
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