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Wayne State University has suspended an English professor and turned him over to the police for saying that Stanford students who offended a conservative judge should have killed him instead of just harassing him.
The professor is believed to be Stephen Chavero, a philosopher and English teacher at the university, who wrote that Stanford students would be justified in killing the conservative judge whose appearance on campus was protested recently.
University President Roy Wilson announced the suspension Monday morning, when he said the school became aware of the post.
In a memo, Wilson writes that the professor works in the school’s English department and has been suspended for pay.
Chaviro’s controversial post read: “While I am not advocating the violation of federal and state criminal laws, I think it is more remarkable to kill a racist or homophobic or transphobic speaker than to yell at them.”
Wayne State English professor Stephen Chavero who was suspended Monday over a social media post
Chavero’s position, which appears to condone violence against political opponents
The professor wrote that “right-wing” groups are calling speakers to college campuses across the country in order to provoke a response from progressive groups.
The protesters are blamed rather than the bigoted speaker; The university administration finds a perfect excuse to publicly side with racists or phobias; The national and international press has a field day saying that it is the bigots who are being oppressed, not the people these bigots hate who are actually victims of oppression.
Finally, the professor moves on to the site of the example of Sholem Schwarzbard, the Russian-born French poet, who in 1926 assassinated Simon Petliura, the former president of the Ukrainian People’s Republic.
Schwarzbard held Petliura responsible for the death of his family, who were murdered in the pogroms of 1919. He killed Petliura on a Paris street.
The ideal historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Simon Petliura, rather than trying to yell at him. Remember, the jury acquitted Schwarzbard, which found his action justified,” the professor wrote.
Wilson’s email went on to say that the post states that “instead of ‘shouting out’ to those with whom we disagree, murder would be justified in order to silence them.”
We have on many occasions defended the right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, but we feel that this post far exceeds the bounds of reasonable or protected speech. It is, at best, morally reprehensible, and at worst, criminal.
We have referred this to law enforcement agencies for further review and investigation. Pending their review, we have suspended the professor with pay, effective immediately.
The posts have since been removed from the internet.
Wayne State University, where the English professor was suspended Monday for posting a violent message on social media
Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan, 51, appointed by Trump, who was yelled at and protested by progressive law students at Stanford University earlier this month
More than 100 students at Stanford University protested the Fifth Circuit judge’s appearance
Justice Duncan protested during a Federal Assembly event at Stanford Law School
Earlier this month, a group of Stanford University students heckled and yelled at Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee, during a visit to the Stanford Federal Law Society.
He was invited to speak by members of the community, but was shouted down by a group of left-wing protesters.
Among other things, the students were displeased with the judge’s record of refusing to allow a child molester to change her name from Norman Keith Varner to Katherine Nicole Jett in court records.
When he arrived at the school, he was met by about 100 students shouting obscenities at him, including one protester who told him, “We hope your daughters get raped.”
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Judge wrote that he had also seen signs on campus that read, “You should be Ashmed,” with others claiming he had committed “crimes against women, gays, blacks, and ‘transgender’ people.”
“The Stanford Law School website promotes its ‘collective culture’ in which ‘collaboration and the open exchange of ideas are essential to life and learning,’” he wrote online.
He had been warned prior to his arrival that there might be protesters and the school should have allowed it, but he was reassured that they were “on top of it”. He was told that if there was any disturbance the school would deal with it, but Duncan said that didn’t happen.
Many say the incident is evidence of the growing intolerance of conservative ideas among the country’s top schools.