A federal judge has ruled that a tenured South Dakota professor who was fired over a social media post about murdered white nationalist, Charlie Kirk, must be reinstated.
So the Darren Michaels of the world should get lawyered up and go to court.
If you are one of those university trustees or presidents who allowed your stupidity, cowardice, and ideology to rule your judgment regarding student and faculty speech, get lawyered up and stand by—justice awaits.
From Raw Story:
A University of South Dakota professor who raged against murdered right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk on Facebook cannot be fired from his post, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
Phillip Michael Hook, a tenured professor of art at USD, was placed on administrative leave and notified of the intent to remove him from his position by the South Dakota Board of Regents following a Facebook post in which he criticized the Turning Point USA founder, after a gunman shot him during a political student event at Utah Valley University in Orem earlier this month.
"Okay. I don’t give a flying f--- about this Kirk person," wrote Hook in the post. "Apparently, he was a hate-spreading Nazi. I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the idiotic right fringe to even know who he was. I’m sorry for his family that he was a hate-spreading Nazi and got killed. I’m sure they deserved better. Maybe good people could now enter their lives. But geez, where was all this concern when the politicians in Minnesota were shot? And the school shootings? And Capitol Police? I have no thoughts or prayers for this hate-spreading Nazi. A shrug, maybe."
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