by Charlotte Hazard
A college professor at Wayne State University in Michigan, Steven Shaviro, was suspended without pay after posting on Facebook that it would be better for students to kill their political opponents rather than just protest against them.
“I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down,” Shaviro said on Facebook, according to Fox News.
“When right-wing groups invite such speakers to campus, it is precisely because they want to provoke an incident that discredits the left, and gives more publicity and validation to these reprehensible views than they could otherwise attain,” he wrote.
“The protesters get blamed instead of the bigoted speaker; the university administration finds a perfect excuse to side publicly with the racists or phobes; the national and international press has a field day saying that bigots are the ones being oppressed, rather than the people those bigots actually hate being the victims of oppression,” the post continued.
Wayne State President M. Roy Wilson condemned the post in an email to the students and said that the university notified the police.
“We have on many occasions defended the right of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but we feel this post far exceeds the bounds of reasonable or protected speech. It is, at best, morally reprehensible and, at worst, criminal,” Wilson said in the email.
“We have referred this to law enforcement agencies for further review and investigation. Pending their review, we have suspended the professor with pay, effective immediately,” the statement continued.
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Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.
Photo “Wayne State University” by Wayne State University.
Suspended with or without pay? First and last paragraph are contradictory. If criminal is because he is calling for action hat is criminal or because he is “abusing” free speech?
He will probably be given a promotion and a raise after his leftie “civil rights” attorney gets him set free . . .
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Wayne State President Wilson is right to notify the authorities. The threat of violence is criminal. As for murder to suppress free speech and to silence the opposition: there are no words strong enough to lament or condemn. Voltaire: ‘I may not agree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.’
This man is a menace regardless of the University’s decision and the police action. He should be fired immediately for lack of understanding as to what should be taught in a university setting. His views should be relegated to hate groups where they will find acceptance.
Top of the article says “suspended without pay”. The statement made by Wayne State president Wilson, quoted at the bottom of the article, says “suspended WITH pay”. Which of those is the truth. If suspended with pay then the professor was merely awarded a “paid vacation”. Not really much of a punishment.
Here you see the real leftist viewpoint. Not if tolerance but if hate. Who is the true phobic who can not accept those who think differently than themselves? And to think this individual is “teaching” He should be fired outright , because ge advocates and promotes violence .
That professor should summarily be fired without pay and banned from any position in academia where he could expose students to his radical agenda.
Anyone threatening death to someone needs professional medical help, those suspending this professor’s pay for threatening death needs to make sure that the professor gets ‘medical psychological help (evil outspoken thoughts are never good). heard on Foxnews.com
It is understandable with the behavior of liberals involving looting, vandalism, arson, attacking police officers criminals spending a few hours – maybe – at worst in jail but anything goes against a conservative. I could never have dreamed that in the USA we have witnessed overt political persecution and criminal charges or simply held in jail with no bond or hearing set for conservatives. A – so far – six year investigation led and finagled by our once vaunted FBI, mingled with a Muller “Investigation” which managed to ruin financially anyone they deemed dangerous to their plan of usurping a sitting president, followed and mingled with attempted Impeachment led by a politician who had lied and lied on national TV about “proof” he had actually “seen” of criminal acts by President Trump and/or his supporters – on and on and now we have this Trumped up “bootstrap” Thing called a felony by a state AG who must not have a rational thought on any given day. I cannot understand two things – why any sane, partially informed American would not see that if anyone was as investigated as the former president and nothing has been found they could even “just leak” if not prove, there isn’t anything there except gossip! and number two, why do they not see that letting such a display of injustice go puts every one of us in jeopardy. Justice HAS TO BE JUST – for everyone. We do not, or at least we did not ever use the justice system in the USA to “Get” those whose politics or personality we did not like!!! NEVER, EVER!!
So is he suspended WITH pay or WITHOUT pay. The article states both options
Another Asshole
How about back at the brainless scum?
Such tolerant, open-minded people, these left-wing professors . . .