Now that Sunday's Triumph of the Shills rally is done and the guy from The Man Show is going to be back on the air, I'd like to take this moment to single out Austin Peay State University (APSU) in Clarksville, TN, for special shaming.
APSU unceremoniously fired theater professor Darren Michael on Sept. 12, about 48 hours after Michael posted a link on Facebook to a story from Newsweek about Charlie Kirk's "it's worth some gun deaths every year" comments. Far-right senator and current gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn had publicly pressured the university. (See first link below)
The thing is, last year it took APSU a week and a half of student protests and "investigation" to finally come to a mutual agreement about "parting ways" with a faculty member who had been outed as a prominent neo-nazi who had promoted and attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesvile, VA, in 2017.
They gave that dude a $56k severance package. (See second link below)
Yup, it took them ten days to come to an amicable resolution with the guy who, in his own words, posted "everything from race realism, the ['Jewish Question'], the truth about Nazis, everything" and who actively promoted what became a deadly rampage, but the dude who shared an article about what Kirk actually said was just done. (See third link below)
I'm sure more or less anyone who follows my account already knows this, but in case you need to illustrate to someone you know just how skewed the response to anything connected with "political violence" is in the US, there you have it: participate in actual racist violence, you get the kid gloves and might be asked to resign if the protests are loud enough; point out indifference to human suffering on the right, you're canned.
At any rate, yeah, this country, hoo boy...
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/16/tennessee-universities-are-firing-professors-for/
https://www.apsu.edu/president/index.php
#fascism #UniteTheRight #AustinPeayStateUniversity #APSU #LoganSmith #NeoNazis #fcknzs
This fashy professor and Unite the Right veteran is now unemployed.
From the article:
Days after his name was tied to white-supremacist propaganda accounts, Logan Smith has left Austin Peay State University. The exit comes after protests by students and community members in Clarksville. Smith joined APSU’s Department of Psychological Science and Counseling as an assistant professor in August.
Michael Licari, APSU's president, announced the decision in a letter on Monday.
“I am writing to inform you that on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, Austin Peay State University and Dr. Logan Smith mutually agreed to end employment, effective immediately,” writes Licari.
Smith was identified in April 2023 as the person behind multiple propaganda accounts publishing a broad range of hate speech, including praise for Adolf Hitler, attacks on minorities and support for the nuclear extermination of humanity. Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action, a self-identified “collective of anti fascist researchers,” posted extensive documentation tying Smith to these accounts, which operated under the pseudonym “Levi” Smith.
#UniteTheRight #fascism #racism #Hitler #antisemitism #LoganSmith #APSU #RacismInHigherEd #FascismInHigherEd
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