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Old 02-26-2019, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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“I mean, it’s easier to shoot cops when their backs are turned, no?” — tweeted on Dec. 27, 2014.

“People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed.” — published in an interview on Jan. 31, 2016.

The university said in a statement: “The UC Davis administration condemns the statement of Professor Clover to which you refer. It does not reflect our institutional values, and we find it unconscionable that anyone would condone much less appear to advocate murder. ... We support law enforcement, and the UC Davis Police Department and Chief Joe Farrow have been and remain critical partners to our community.”

Clover, whose work focuses on critical and political theory, political economy, poetry, poetics and Marxism, wrote to The Aggie, saying, “I think we can all agree that the most effective way to end any violence against officers is the complete and immediate abolition of the police.”
Hard to believe that even in California's University system would allow someone like this to be on staff, and to make statements such as this for a period of years. Even harder to believe is that the taxpayers paying his salary allow it. Reading garbage like this, it is sometimes hard to remember that there are actually still some decent people left in the People's Republic of California that have yet to become refugees.
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Old 02-26-2019, 07:45 PM
 
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what is the question?
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Old 02-26-2019, 07:57 PM
 
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Yet if a staffer questioned transgender women in women's sports, that staffer would be suspended immediately, then fired, and the university would give its typical "we promote and atmosphere of tolerance...blah blah blah".
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Japan
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The original story in the campus newspaper is very well done and worth reading:

https://theaggie.org/2019/02/25/a-uc...-to-be-killed/

The administration's position is that, since cops are not a protected group under Title IX, and Clover is a humanities professor and therefore an academic expert qualified to opine on broad aspects of society, that he has academic freedom in this case and should not be reprimanded for saying that cops should be killed. The author of the piece disagrees, as do I.
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:23 PM
 
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Imagine a world run by liberals entirely... Holy crap... Liberals eat their own if they didn't have conservatives...
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:33 PM
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Im guessing twitter was cool with this too?
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:42 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Im guessing twitter was cool with this too?
sure. murderous marxists are A-OK with Twitter.
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:53 PM
 
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Im guessing twitter was cool with this too?
They usually are OK with anything to do with stuff like this. But say something like "People think Islam needs to be reformed, they need to be killed", you will get a ban right away.
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Old 02-26-2019, 08:59 PM
 
Location: SE Asia
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I wonder how much people had to pay to take that lunatic's class?
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Old 02-26-2019, 09:11 PM
 
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I hate this stuff and I lament what has happened to the humanities and social sciences, and the academy in general. But ultimately, the people...the taxpayers...must rise up against this garbage and these charlatans. If they demanded changes, state legislatures would respond. Cut their budgets and cap their tuitions. Simultaneously, wealthy alums have to stop giving to their alma maters.
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