U. Michigan Prof Says Kirk Was ‘No Friend of’ Academic Freedom
“His demagoguery has endangered a great many people.”
Kirk was good at identifying professors who promoted radical leftism. They don’t like that.
Campus Reform reports:
Kirk was ‘no friend of’ academic freedom, UMich professor claims
Derek Peterson, the chairman of the faculty senate at the University of Michigan, criticized Charlie Kirk in a faculty-wide email, accusing him of being unfriendly to “academic freedom.”
Peterson sent the email to Michigan faculty on Sept. 16, and The Washington Free Beacon obtained a screenshot of it.
“In life, Kirk was no friend of academic freedom,” Peterson wrote. “Twenty members of the faculty are included on his ‘Professor Watchlist,’ which targets faculty who (in his partisan definition) ‘promote anti-American values.’ His demagoguery has endangered a great many people.”
In comments made to Campus Reform, Peterson emphasized that his “purpose was to call for peace and civility, not to condemn the late Mr. Kirk.” Peterson added that Kirk “may have been a likeable person,” but that he “was no saint, and reasonable people can disagree about his politics.”
Professor Watchlist, a Turning Point USA nonprofit project, aims to identify and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students or promote leftist views, compiling information from published news reports on radical behavior in the classroom.
Peterson, a historian, focuses on African intellectual and religious history, post-colonial identity, and pan-Africanism, according to an online biography. His fields of study include “gender history,” “nationalism,” and “ethnicity.”
After Kirk’s assassination, several university-affiliated individuals faced backlash for social media posts mocking or celebrating his death, leading to firings, account deactivations, and formal reviews.
For instance, a University of Mississippi staff member was fired after reposting online comments about Kirk’s assassination that described him as a KKK member and expressed no sympathy for his death.
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He’s just upset he didn’t make the list.
Hypocrite believes in academic freedom for me but not thee.
As if proggie professors don’t have hitlists of their own.
How hypocritical it is for Professor Mao von Marx to whinge about “academic frerdom” when he and his ilk would so blithely deplatform anyone daring to utter a syllable outside of his tiny mental bubble. So stereotypical it comes off a CD or turntable.
Seeing what he teaches I’m not surprised over any of this.
I can read a description of what they teach, and I still can’t describe what it is that they teach.
They don’t teach, they indoctrinate.