Financial Aid Advisor Fired by Iowa State U. for Writing Charlie Kirk ‘Got What Was Coming’
“Iowa State University has determined that your conduct and continued employment has caused, and is reasonably likely to continue to cause, significant disruption, harm, and adverse impact to the efficient and effective operations of the university”
I have a funny feeling that this is going to drag on for months.
The College Fix reports:
Iowa State U. fires financial aid advisor who wrote Charlie Kirk ‘got what was coming’
Iowa State University has terminated a financial aid advisor who, shortly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, had posted to social media Kirk “got what was coming.”
Caitlyn Spencer had written “Given Charlie’s previous comments about their ‘necessity’ to protect 2nd amendment rights though, this jackass got what was coming and I’m happy he’s rotting in hell now.”
According to The Gazette, Spencer’s comments went viral “across multiple platforms and attracting millions of views,” including a mention from former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The ISU Board of Regents met last week in a closed session to discuss the matter; on Tuesday it was announced Spencer had been fired.
In the termination letter, ISU President Wendy Wintersteen claimed Spencer had “violat[ed] the Board of Regents’ ‘freedom of expression’ policy and her ‘ethical obligations as a financial aid professional.’”
“Iowa State University has determined that your conduct and continued employment has caused, and is reasonably likely to continue to cause, significant disruption, harm, and adverse impact to the efficient and effective operations of the university,” Wintersteen wrote.
The letter noted Spencer can appeal the firing to the ISU Board of Regents.
The Iowa State Board policy pertaining to free expression states employees “are free to express personal opinions on their personal social media accounts, consistent with the First Amendment and its application to public employees”; however, “under certain circumstances” ISU “may be obligated to act to prevent harm to the university, our campus community, and its mission.”
The post-Kirk murder comments of another ISU academic, Religious Studies Professor George Archer (“Yeah sorry pretty sure we’re all OK with political violence. Every. One. Of. Us”) also caused an uproar, but thus far Archer is still employed.
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I am not, repeat NOT, about to pick up a weapon, but I would like to point out and ask Professor George Archer whether he realizes that his statement applies to himself
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Caitlyn Spencer has received the first instalment of what she had coming, I bet she does not yet understand how much more she has coming.
Odds are if someone suggested violence against George Archer and those of his political ilk, he’d be among the first to scream, insisting it’s not ok, he deserves protection, and those who applied his literal words to him – purely intellectually mind you, be treated as violent terrorists.
Words are violence when the Right says something the Left dislikes.
Violence is just expression when the Left does something to the Right.
I’m old enough to recall a time when the prevailing attitude was “I despise what you say, but I’ll fight to the death your right to say it.”
Now a growing attitude from the looney left is “I despise what you say, and will celebrate anyone who ends you.”