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://clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-to-pay-embattled-psychology-professor-56000-in-severance-agreement/

https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/logan-michael-smith-of-clarksville-tn-white-supremacist-behind-pol-news-network/

https://www.apsu.edu/president/index.php

#fascism #UniteTheRight #AustinPeayStateUniversity #APSU #LoganSmith #NeoNazis #fcknzs

From the article:

Austin Peay State University is investigating Logan Michael Smith, a recently hired assistant professor of psychology, for allegedly spreading racist, antisemitic, transphobic and xenophobic propaganda via prominent social media accounts.

Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action, a self-identified “collective of anti fascist researchers,” posted detailed documentation tying Logan Smith to far-right hate groups in April 2023. The group updated Smith’s information page on Sept. 10 to include his post at APSU. Smith joined the APSU Department of Psychological Science and Counseling after completing his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University in 2024.

“We cannot confirm the allegations circulating online,” reads a statement from APSU posted on X on Sept. 11. “Leadership is aware of the situation and assessing validity.”

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/apsu-white-supremacist-allegations/article_b187d710-752d-11ef-b392-ef072c47a30e.html

#UniteTheRight #APSU #Tennessee #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #Antisemitism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #LoganMichaelSmith #LoganSmith

Update on Unite the Right attendee and /pol/ News Network operator Logan Michael Smith: he's been hired as a psych prof. at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

From the article:

It has recently been brought to our attention that Logan Michael Smith, previously of Stillwater, Oklahoma, completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has been hired as an Assistant Professor at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Out of concern over him having access to impressionable students (and possibly patients), we have updated the original post to include his current location.

Logan Smith was actively posting hateful content to his ‘PNN’ account until his identification in 2023. The original thread identifying Logan can be found on Twitter.

https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/logan-michael-smith-of-clarksville-tn-white-supremacist-behind-pol-news-network/

#UniteTheRight #Pol #Tennessee #Clarksville #APSU #LoganSmith