Posted on 07/02/2026 8:00:36 AM PDT by Angelino97
A University of Tennessee professor will receive $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the school of violating her constitutional rights after officials sought to discipline her over social media posts criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Knox News reported Monday that the University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a $1.9 million settlement for former professor Tamar Shirinian after she called Kirk, who was assassinated Sept. 10 during his "American Comeback Tour" at Utah Valley University, a "disgusting psychopath."
Shirinian was put on administrative leave following a social media post where she had said in part, "The world is better off without him in it," and added, "His kids are better off living in a world without a disgusting psychopath like him and his wife, well, she’s a sick f--- for marrying him so I dont [sic] care about her feelings."
She later apologized and said it was "insensitive" and "uncharacteristic of me as a person."
Shirinian was fired on Feb. 11. She will not be reinstated, Knox News reported.
In the February letter to Shirinian informing her that she had been fired, UT Chancellor Donde Plowman wrote, "Your words celebrated a gruesome murder, which horrifically took place on a college campus similar to our own, and then went on to callously demean the grief and loss felt by the widow and young children of the victim while also mocking any grief felt by others who sympathized with the surviving family."
"My client is pleased that the parties reached a resolution," Robb Bigelow, Shirinian's attorney, said in an email to Knox News. "Litigation is always difficult, and we're grateful to everyone on both sides who worked diligently to bring this matter to a close.
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Tranny
Nose job badly needed.
Armenian? Send her to Turkey.
How long will it take for some other screwl to hire her.
You would have to work to be that butt ugly.
She'll be picked up by one of the Ivies with a substantial salary boost - or hired by MSNBC or the View.
Where is the Governor? Legislature?
It was insensitive, but I suspect it is characteristic of her; otherwise she would not have sent it.
another ghoul gets paid. Sad
Liberal women are ugly as hell.
> Tranny
Space alien.
She must have been looking in the mirror when she said the words disgusting Psychopath!
I think you're right...
And the ones who aren’t ugly are brainless, vapid, blank-eyed automatons who have no capability of independent thought, or slavering, spittle-lipped ideologues who only a horny fool would approach with anything other than a ten-foot pole no matter how physically attractive they are!
I’m not sure if I understand how it violated its rights.
Don’t entities have the right to have codes of acceptable behavior, dress, safety equipment etc?
$1.9 million buys a lot of rhinoplasty.
I’m guessing they willingly paid it, so they would no longer be forced to see it on a daily basis...
When you want to fire someone, unless at-will employment, yo have to make sure all the paper work is in order, and then triple check to make sure....
The shyster gets about half.
She had freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences, especially in a grieving nation.
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