Wayne State professor suspended after saying Stanford students should have KILLED conservative judge
Wayne State University has suspended an English professor and referred him to police for saying Stanford students who abused a conservative judge should have killed him instead of just disrupting him.
The professor is believed to be Steven Shaviro, a self-proclaimed philosopher and professor of English at the university, who wrote that Stanford students would be justified in killing the conservative judge whose appearance on campus was recently protested.
University president Roy Wilson announced the suspension Monday morning, which is when he said the school became aware of the post.
In a note, Wilson wrote that the teacher works in the school’s English department and has been furloughed with pay.
Shaviro’s controversial post read: “While I do not advocate violating federal and state penal codes, I believe it is much more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic or transphobic speaker than to yell at him.”
Wayne State English teacher Steven Shaviro, who was suspended Monday over a social media post.
Shaviro’s post that appears to condone violence against political rivals
The professor wrote that “right-wing” groups invite speakers to campuses across the country to provoke a reaction from progressive groups.
‘Protesters are blamed instead of the bigoted speaker; the university administration finds a perfect excuse to publicly side with racists or phobes; the national and international press have a field day saying that the fanatics are the ones being oppressed, instead of the people those fanatics really hate being oppressed.’
Finally, the professor goes on to locate the case of Sholem Schwarzbard, a Russian-born Jewish French poet, who in 1926 assassinated Symon Petliura, the former head of the Ukrainian People’s Republic.
Schwarzbard held Petliura responsible for the deaths of his family, who had been killed in the pogroms of 1919. He killed Petliura on a Paris street.
‘The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who murdered the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, instead of trying to shout it out. Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified,’ the professor wrote.
Wilson’s email went on to say that the post said that “instead of ‘shouting’ at those with whom we disagree, one would be justified in committing murder to silence them.”
“We have repeatedly defended the right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, but we believe this post far exceeds the bounds of reasonable or protected speech. It is, at best, morally reprehensible and, at worst, criminal.”
“We have referred this to law enforcement agencies for further review and investigation. Pending your review, we have suspended the professor with pay, effective immediately.’
The posts have since been removed from the internet.
Wayne State University, where an English professor was suspended Monday for posting a violent message on social media
Judge Kyle Duncan, 51, of the Trump-appointed Fifth Circuit Court, who was yelled at and protested by progressive Stanford law students earlier this month.
More than 100 Stanford Law students protested the appearance of the judge of the Fifth Circuit
Judge Duncan is protested during a Federalist Society event at Stanford Law School
Earlier this month, a group of Stanford students heckled and yelled at Trump-appointed Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan during a visit to Stanford’s Federalist Law Society.
Society members had invited him to speak, but a group of left-wing protesters vociferously turned him down.
Among other things, the students were upset with the judge’s record of refusing to allow a transgender pedophile to change her name from Norman Keith Varner to Kathrine Nicole Jett in court records.
When he arrived at the school, he was greeted by around 100 students who yelled obscenities at him, including one protester who told him: “We hope your daughters will be raped.”
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the judge wrote that he also saw signs on campus saying “you should be SHAME,” while others claimed he had committed “crimes against women, gays, blacks, and “trans people.”
Stanford Law School’s website touts its “collegial culture” in which “collaboration and the open exchange of ideas are essential to life and learning,” he wrote. ‘This didn’t seem “collegiate”.’
He was warned before his arrival that there might be protesters and that the school had to allow it, but he assured him that they were “in the know”. They told him that if there was any disruption, the school would take care of it, but Duncan said that didn’t happen.
Many say the incident demonstrates the growing intolerance of conservative ideas among the best schools in the country.