U. Arkansas-Little Rock Fires Prof Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death
“I will not pull back from CELEBRATING that an evil man died by the method he chose to embrace.”
This story began back in September but ends now. It’s amazing how many of these people there are and how many of them work in education.
The College Fix reports:
Arkansas professor officially fired for ‘CELEBRATING’ Charlie Kirk murder
A University of Arkansas-Little Rock professor who promised to never stop “CELEBRATING” the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk has officially been fired.
Chancellor Christina Drale upheld the firing of Felicia Branch for her comments soon after Kirk’s assassination last month while speaking at Utah Valley University. She was a non-tenure track professor who ran the school’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.
In a since-deleted Facebook post, Branch wrote “It never fails. People have come out caping for the devil that walked among us […] so no. I will not pull back from CELEBRATING that an evil man died by the method he chose to embrace.”
“You’re so QUICK to chastise, thinking we’re simply celebrating a death. We. Are. Not […] evil begets evil [and Kirk] is no longer able to beget evil,” she said. “That’s cause célébre.”
Branch also posted a meme showing members of the Ku Klux Klan surrounding a burning cross with the title “PEOPLE MOURNING CHARLIE KIRK.”
The chancellor’s decision came after a faculty appeals council recommended a warning instead. Branch argued her social media post had garnered little attention and that she made her comments as private citizen. Leading state officials, including Governor Sarah Sanders, called for Branch’s termination, however.
The chancellor explained:
The effect of one’s speech is not logically confined to one channel of feedback. In this case, the feedback was overwhelmingly negative. Your social-media posts were in fact disruptive to the operation and effectiveness of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, the Bowen School of Law, and UA Little Rock. Moreover, given your insistence that your messages were wholly unproblematic, I don’t believe that a warning or reprimand would convince you otherwise or prevent future occurrences.
Following Kirk’s assassination, other academics rushed to celebrate the murder of the founder and CEO of the conservative student group.
“Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence,” Middle Tennessee State University Assistant Dean Laura Sosh-Lightsy wrote on Facebook. “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”
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Bye, Felicia.
Angry ugly stupid ignorant black female has been cancelled. Good riddance. You will not be missed.
As an Arkansan I can say that I am glad this was the outcome and I am pleasantly surprised. However, I don’t think for a moment that this is over.