Charlie Kirk was murdered on a college campus less than a year ago. This is simply not reality.
Campus Reform reports:
Vassar promotes professor’s op-ed linking conservatives to violenceVassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, promoted a Salon op-ed by one of its Greek and Roman Studies professors who argued that conservatives invoke ancient Rome to make political violence appear honorable.The college’s official Threads account shared the April 14 op-ed by Curtis Dozier on April 26, saying the associate professor and department chair wrote about “how conservatives use the ancient Roman Empire to justify violent ideology.” Vassar’s faculty page identifies Dozier as associate professor and chair of Greek and Roman Studies.In the op-ed, Dozier writes that politicians’ comparisons to Athens and Rome create what he calls the “‘Gladiator’ effect,” helping them make violence seem “glorious” or “virtuous.” He argues that President Donald Trump and his administration use Roman comparisons to portray immigrants as a threat to a “great” civilization.Dozier also writes that Trump’s references to ancient Greece and Rome signal an “authoritarian bent” and that Trump uses the symbols to claim “prestige and respectability for violent politics.”Vassar announced in March that Dozier received tenure. The college described him as an “internationally recognized expert” on extremists’ and hate groups’ use of Greco-Roman antiquity and noted that he documents those examples at Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics.Dozier’s Pharos site says it documents “appropriations of Greco-Roman culture by hate groups” and includes a land acknowledgment stating that the project is researched and published at Vassar, which it calls “the homeland of the Munsee Lenape people.”The college’s promotion of Dozier’s op-ed follows comments he made to The Miscellany News after the Sept. 10 fatal shooting of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.Dozier told Vassar’s student newspaper that Kirk’s assassination signaled “a despairing citizenry” and that Kirk had made political violence a “respectable and acceptable means of discourse.” He also said he understood why some people were “relishing the irony” of Kirk’s death, but added that political violence damages efforts to live in peace.
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