A professor at Wayne State University has been suspended pending a review after a Facebook post suggesting that instead of censoring conservative speakers on campus, they should be murdered.
Reason reports that an English professor posting under the name of Steven Shaviro wrote about freedom of speech on college and University campuses, “I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.”
In the post, the professor also wrote “The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him down. Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified.”
After the post was reported to the college, the police were notified, and the professor was placed on leave.
WDIV 4 News filed a report:
The tolerant left in action again, advocating killing someone whose opinion you disagree with.
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