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Bellarmine fires anti-Trump professor who said ‘if you’re gonna shoot…don’t miss’
College Fix ^ | JULY 19, 2024 | Matt Lamb

Posted on 07/20/2024 2:56:47 AM PDT by george76

No longer a Bellarmine employee’

Bellarmine University Professor John James is out of work after appearing to joke about the failed assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.

“If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss,” the English professor wrote on Instagram after last Saturday’s shooting that took off part of the president’s ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.

The Catholic university in Louisville announced soon after that James would be placed on “unpaid leave,” although the social media post did not name him.

“Words and actions that condone violence are unacceptable and contrary to our values, which call for respecting the intrinsic value and dignity of every individual,” the university previously stated.

“We strive to create an inclusive community that welcomes all and models a spirit of goodwill,” Bellarmine posted. “We are aware of an offensive and unacceptable social media post made by an employee over the weekend.”

UPDATE: This individual is no longer a Bellarmine employee,” the university wrote on July 16.

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There was also reportedly a hoax bomb threat connected to the situation.

James explained his comments, saying he does not “condone violence.”

“I will say here, for the record, that I do not condone violence,” he told Louisville Public Media. “My point with this post was that, though it is a bad idea to assassinate a person, it is perhaps an even worse idea to fail in assassinating a person, because a failed assassination lends that figure power — it heroizes them.”

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He is an alumnus of Bellarmine, but a profile about him has been scrubbed by the university.

Since the failed assassination attempt against Trump, academics have taken different stances. Some, like James, have appeared upset or joked about the former president surviving.

Others suggested it was “staged,” such as Carnegie Mellon Professor Uju Anya.

“They lie, and people die. That’s exactly what they do,” Anya wrote on Saturday, soon after the shooting.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bellarmine; doubleddown; education; johnjames; louisville; pennsylvania; professor; thebattlebox; trump; ujuanya; university
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To: george76
Commies in Catholic colleges.

Lots of commies went into the priesthood, but also a lot went into jobs on the faculties of the so-called Catholic colleges.

Lots of them. Maybe most.

Exceptions are the traditional Catholic colleges.

Such an emission from a faculty member of a traditional Catholic college would be unthinkable.

Commies in the pew next to you.

Commies at the Kiss of Peace.

Commies with their crappy songs at mass.

Hope this MAGA movement extends to cleaning up the Catholic church and its para- organizations in education.

21 posted on 07/20/2024 6:08:10 AM PDT by caddie
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These people truly need to be cancelled by tracking where they go. No future employer of these aholes should be sparred our wrath.


22 posted on 07/20/2024 6:10:10 AM PDT by Abbeville Conservative
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No longer a Bellarmine employee...

Now that is a sign that we are starting to win.

Keep it coming!

23 posted on 07/20/2024 6:11:26 AM PDT by flamberge (A storm is coming)
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To: Big Brother Go to Hell

“Do “progressive” leftists *really* think normal Americans would have thrown up their hands and accepted child grooming, climate lockdowns, CRT...”

Nice list, and of course we wouldn’t. But there would have been this HUGE RUSH of people claiming to be the next MAGA, thus fragmenting the movement into easy-to-defeat minor entities.

The PUBLISHED Neocon strategy against Russia is to divide up the country into a group of 7 or so smaller countries, that can be controlled by the Neocons, for the same reason.

Trump’s real threat was that he was the ONLY PERSON who could unify the MAGAs into a single entity, one capable of defeating the Democrats due to both numbers and loyalty, which explains the Deep State treatment of him right up to the shooting.


24 posted on 07/20/2024 6:51:24 AM PDT by BobL
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I’ve been Twitter-jailed for innocuous comments, none amounting to presidential death-sugestions. I wonder if the mods at Twitter jailed this guy?


25 posted on 07/20/2024 6:55:39 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: george76

MSNBC needs to do the same with many of their people.


26 posted on 07/20/2024 10:34:35 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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The beauty of this, is that this situation forced the Left
to show their true selves in public, in an effort to
neutralized the love for Trump.

Even some Leftist organizations are having to say, enough is
enough.


27 posted on 07/20/2024 1:30:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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