“APSU did not follow the required termination process in this matter, and I deeply regret and apologize for the impact this has had on Professor Michael and on our campus community,” the university president said. “I am committed to ensuring that due process and fairness are upheld in all future actions.”
Kind of a hollow apology from the school president. “Sorry we didn’t follow the require termination process.” No apologies for trying to repress free speech. No apologies for over reacting when the professor posted a quote and nothing else. No apologies for trying to curry favor with an authoritarian regime by falling in line like a good little boy. Seriously, fuck that guy.
“Sorry we got caught”
The $500k counts as an apology
it doesn’t. not to me. that’s counts as a plea to let the subject go and move on.
Like a settlement
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All that stuff is implied in the apology. You’re just fishing for criticism, if all those things were included, you’d criticize it for omitting something else.
Hard disagree. They were very careful to claim the problem was just that the process wasn’t followed.
The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.
“Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” read the headline of an article Michael shared. He did not add any additional comment on it.
Senator Blackburn (R-TN) then pinged the school about that post, and the professor was fired despite the fact that he had tenure and couldn’t legally be fired like that. So he used the legal system to find a remedy.
No paywall/Ad Blocker BS
https://archive.li/hfIyZUh oh, better go invade another country and murder an innocent woman before anybody notices.
I love it when people got blowback for literally quoting Kirk.
These dumb motherfuckers never see the irony.
Summary says awarded $50,000, article says $500,000:
Darren Michael, associate professor at Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
$50000 won’t cover legal bills and $500K sounds like a settlement for breaking academic freedom agreements.
Republikkkan scumbags have such thin skin. DonT MoCk Me GuYs sErIuSweeee iT MaKeS mY hEd SaDddddd. Can’t take it, can’t dish it out without sounding like whiny little bitches… All they can do is try to cancel— always at the heart of the so-called cancel culture they hate so much
