Posted on 06/22/2017 4:03:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Connecticut college is facing national outrage after a professor posted a series of Facebook messages attacking white people – along with a link to an essay that suggested first responders to last week’s congressional shootings should’ve let the lawmakers “f***ing” die.
Trinity College Professor Johnny Eric Williams also reportedly shared an essay posted on Medium that included a photograph of Majority Leader Steve Scalise, titled, “Let Them F***ing Die.”
The anonymous essayist opined that the Capitol police officers should’ve let Rep. Scalise and otherRepublican lawmakers die in last week’s ball park attack.
“Saving the life of those that would kill you is the opposite of virtuous,” the essayist wrote. “Let. Them. F***ing. Die. And smile a bit when you do. For you have done the universe a great service.”
The professor’s incredibly offensive Facebook postings and hashtags were originally reported by Campus Reform.
“I’m fed the f**k up with self identified ‘white’s’ daily violence directed at immigrants, Muslim, and sexually and racially oppressed people. The time is now to confront these inhuman a**holes and end this now,” the professor wrote.
Ironically, Professor Williams teaches about race and racism.
Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney said in a prepared statement that she does not “condone hate speech or calls to incite violence.”
“I told Professor Williams that in my opinion his use of the hashtag was reprehensible and, at the very least, in poor judgment,” the president said. “No matter its intent, it goes against our fundamental values as an institution, and I believe its effect is to close minds rather than open them.”
Instead of me trying to interpret the essay written on Medium – I’m going to let the college president describe that smoldering piece of garbage disguised as thoughtful prose.
“The Medium piece went on to explore broader issues concerning race and the relationship between ‘victims of bigotry’ and ‘bigots,’” Berger-Sweeney said. “The piece culminated with a call to show indifference to the lives of bigots. That call was reprehensible, and any such suggestion is abhorrent and wholly contrary to Trinity’s values.”
Williams told the Hartford Courant that Campus Reform twisted his words and he denied endorsing the essay. He also said the postings were not meant to be made public.
So what did the professor mean when he wrote, “It is past time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves to be ‘white’ will not do, put an end to the vectors of their destructive mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system. #LetThemF***ingDie”?
He told the newspaper his point was that people should “confront these people who are racists.”
“This is about free speech as well as academic freedom,” he said. “From my perspective, I’m considering whether I should file a defamation against these guys.”
The college has been inundated with so many threats they had to shut down the campus Wednesday – out of an abundance of caution.
“This incident has caused distress on our campus and beyond; threats of violence have been directed to Professor Williams and to our campus community, neither of which is an acceptable response,” Berger-Sweeney said.
President Berger-Sweeny is absolutely correct. Violence is never an acceptable response to this sort of vile sputum. And neither is letting someone bleed out on a baseball field just because he’s a white man.
I assume he ain’t white.
yes, the white man’s daily violence. WTF. In what parrallel universe is this taking place, because it doesn’t happen here. Yesterday a list of the most peaceful countries came out. Denmark, finland and Iceland won again. They have white folk in the over 90th percentile. Go figure. Left on our own- wouldn’t that be nice for a change- we produce wonderful, vibrant, spacefaring societies.
Yeah, you go ahead and file your little “defamation”. I want to see you crumble as skilled attorneys expose who you really are under the deposition, you fraud.
he’s wearing a suit and tie- that’s cultural appropriation. Someone call the police
No he isn’t. Fox and Friends showed a picture of him
Yup, that’s that creep
This is no less than the mirror held up to the prejudicial treatment of “minorities” by a very small actual number of persons of Northern European origin. The persons who are on a rampage against the imaginary “white privilege” are actually few in number, but make up for that disadvantage by turning up the volume to unbearable levels.
WHAT “white privilege”? I was kicked to the roadside a number of times, in some interpretation of “equality” and “fairness”, but most of the time, I picked myself up and attempted to assert myself in some other endeavor. No “failure” is forever, and adversity only makes each of us stronger, if we take advantage of the lessons taught in that adversity.
The Universe is inherently unfair, and equality is a myth purposefully perpetuated on the gullible.
Face it, most racism today is found on University faculties.
Can you imagine being white and taking his class? I guess you’d have to renounce your race and grovel in order to pass.
Trinity must termniate his employment. He’s a threat to every white student on campus.
“Saving the life of those that would kill you is the opposite of virtuous,”
Knowing what he thinks would probably make any first responder think twice if God forbid he ever needed. Well, probably not...it is a life.
Local Liberal Rags 6/22 article:
http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-trinity-campus-closed-threats-20170621-story.html
If there were true racial equality in America, universities would have courses in caucasian studies - taught by klansmen and neo-nazis. If blacks and hispanics can get indoctrinated with racism at the college level, why don’t whites?
Maybe white culture has evolved past that. (is that statement racist?)
He’s probably a sodomite as well.
Sounds like the chump is advocating civil war. I am beginning to think there is no way around it. The only question I have, is how extensive will it be?
oy vey yes. The slpc takes us for putzes and schmucks and doesn’t think very highly of white folk. They sure have some chutzpuh over there
Face it, most racism today is found on University faculties.
disagree; most racism is found in the student bodies, who in fact now control the college agenda...and they will not be satisfied until whites are denied admission and are ex campis (off the campuses)entirely...
at which point, these places will not be colleges anymore, but extensions of the ‘hoods that we should all know enough to avoid (think Derbyshire, and we may live a little longer), filled with slouching indolents whose primary form of self expression is lashing out when the urge moves them...
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