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Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 2:43 PM
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http://www.thestate.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article173085666.html
"Clemson University Assistant Professor Bart Knijnenburg’s inflammatory comments should enrage our state and the nation as a whole. “All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Knijnenburg wrote on Facebook, adding: “I admire anyone who stands up against white supremacy. Violent or non-violent. This needs to stop, by any means necessary. #PunchNazis.”
In other posts, Knijnenburg equated Trump, Trump voters and the GOP with Nazis, the KKK and the alt-right, labeling them “All racists.”
Many Clemson students are conservatives, who also support the Republican Party. Not only has Knijnenburg smeared the character of his students, he has implicitly threatened them with physical violence. He has broken that special bond that must exist between professors and students. What Republican students can take Knijnenburg’s classes without fear of being ridiculed, censored or handed poor grades on account of their ideology?
Let’s be clear: Knijnenburg’s comments are immoral, and they have no place in an institution of higher learning. Let’s also remember that S.C. taxpayers pay Knijnenburg’s annual salary and benefits, which exceed $100,000.
Many in the Clemson community have demanded that Professor Knijnenburg be terminated immediately. Some people have created an online petition calling for his ouster. Even a state senator has demanded his firing, threatening to pull taxpayer funding from the university if he remains.
How has Clemson responded to pleas to fire or censure a professor who implicitly advocates violence against his own students? The short answer is that it hasn’t.
The only action taken by the university so far is an anemic blog post that didn’t even identify Knijnenburg by name or employment status, labeling him, “an individual,” whose views, “evoked disappointment, concern and outrage from many members of the Clemson family.”
Equally shocking is the utter silence of the Clemson faculty.
In January of 2015, more than 100 faculty and staff sponsored a full-page ad in Clemson’s student newspaper demanding that the administration “prosecute criminally predatory behaviors and defamatory speech committed by members of the Clemson University community (including, but not limited to, those facilitated by usage of social media).”
Where are these professors and administrators now? Why haven’t they condemned Professor Knijnenburg’s hate-filled rhetoric?
Why hasn’t the Clemson Faculty Senate moved to censure Professor Knijnenburg?
More importantly, why hasn’t the Clemson administration acted?
If the administration won’t act to defend students from threats of violence, who will? Perhaps Clemson parents, alumni, state legislators and taxpayers will do the job of Clemson administrators and faculty."
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 2:56 PM
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If you fire him, you make him a martyr and he wins. National news for days.
Ignore him and don't renew his contract. Site budgetary reasons
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^^this guy gets it
Sep 13, 2017, 3:24 PM
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Just ignore him and he will go away. Don't give him the spotlight he is clamoring for.
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 3:30 PM
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University of Tampa fired a professor for liberal social media comments and no big deal accept for a terminated professor. Clemson Administration, wake up. Your inaction is harming the University, alum, students and faculty.
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The issue is moot, only the trump snowflakes....
Sep 13, 2017, 6:19 PM
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who love it when their political heroes issue threats of violence and politically inflammatory comments, are whining about this. Kind of a contradiction to whine about inflammatory comments while at the same time always defending inflammatory comments from your political heroes.
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Re: The issue is moot, only the trump snowflakes....
Sep 13, 2017, 9:20 PM
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Snowflakes were named after your cry baby crowd but keep trying
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You're the one crying when someone isn't a fascist***
Sep 14, 2017, 10:13 AM
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 7:36 PM
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Woohoo!! Somebody that actually gets it!! Most of the issues in our society now stems from people being vocal & opinionated and getting attention from it (hence the squeaky wheel). Just ignore the idiots and most of the time they go away. There's usually always a round about way to smother a small flame
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Orange Blooded [2111]
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but he brings in a lot of grants
Sep 13, 2017, 3:11 PM
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so I hear.
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 3:30 PM
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We are playing Louisville. Refocus and fight the culture war on another board.
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 3:48 PM
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I am disappointed that the university hasn't done something. We can only hope that this professor has had his wings clipped in private. His comments are inexcusable.
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They already did issue a statement on it...
Sep 13, 2017, 6:22 PM
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College Professors of all political stripes make controversial statements all the time, yet they don't always get fired or rarely get fired. His comments were inappropriate and just gave fuel to the very people he was being critical of.
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Re: They already did issue a statement on it...
Sep 13, 2017, 9:22 PM
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Name them ?
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 6:34 PM
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I'm with you. I found the university to not give a crap years ago about what I thought so their silence on this issue does not surprise me in the least.
I support our sports teams but would NEVER support this politically correct university otherwise!
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There Are Some Great Places in Clemson Forest He Should
Sep 13, 2017, 3:51 PM
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Be Taken to See.
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So you're condemning his suggestive threat of violence...
Sep 13, 2017, 6:24 PM
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with your own suggestive threat of violence. So how are any different from him?
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This comment from the article - what was it referencing?:
Sep 13, 2017, 4:10 PM
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In January of 2015, more than 100 faculty and staff sponsored a full-page ad in Clemson’s student newspaper demanding that the administration “prosecute criminally predatory behaviors and defamatory speech committed by members of the Clemson University community (including, but not limited to, those facilitated by usage of social media).
What event caused the ad to be placed?
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funny to see the trump snowflakes cry away***
Sep 13, 2017, 6:15 PM
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We contain Jackson we got an excellent shot at winning the game***
Sep 13, 2017, 6:35 PM
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 7:07 PM
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Crump®
B-Meist®
Ban this crap please. He's been told multiple times to post on the correct forum and is clearly ignoring the rules and trying to force an agenda on people.
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 8:31 PM
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This is the Ampitheatre, which is described by the administrators of this site as:
"Discuss non-sports related Clemson Topics here."
Non-sports topic. Check.
Clemson topic. Check.
It would seem that this is the perfect forum for this post.
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Re: Clemson Refuses to Respond to "Racist Scum" Prof.
Sep 13, 2017, 7:13 PM
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How is he the racist in this, i missed that part.
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I am also somewhat surprised that he was not fired.
Sep 13, 2017, 7:13 PM
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However, if you think about it, what he posts on his private Facebook page should be his business. As long as his personal views do not get in the way of his teaching and research activities, it shouldn't cost him his job.
With that said, what he said was extremely offensive to the millions of people who voted for Trump - as well as those who believe that we should support the president no matter who he is. I would hope that this professor has learned something from this endeavor.
As for Clemson, I would hope that Clemson University would have reacted the same way if it had been a conservative professor saying these things about Obama during his presidency. As long as Clemson is consistent, I'm fine. When they start pandering to the left, then that is when I will be happy to join a group of protestors on the steps of Sikes Hall.
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College professors of all political stripes make controversial statements yet rarely get fired...***
Sep 14, 2017, 10:17 AM
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Re: Revenge is best served on a cold platter.***
Sep 13, 2017, 7:48 PM
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Re: Revenge is best served on a cold platter.***
Sep 13, 2017, 9:08 PM
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He's scum that should be dealt with.
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Re: Revenge is best served on a cold platter.***
Sep 14, 2017, 9:26 AM
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you sound like a good christian man
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All Republicans aren't racist...
Sep 14, 2017, 8:28 AM
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Just the ones who support Trump. (see what I did there?)
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Not a Trump fan, but you are still wrong!***
Sep 14, 2017, 11:14 AM
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No one gives a
Sep 14, 2017, 9:02 AM
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