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@JeffreyASachs
Aug 23, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Yet ANOTHER college professor has been fired for private tweets. This time, it’s Jeff Klinzman, an adjunct English prof at Kirkwood Community College who was terminated earlier today.

kwwl.com/news/2019/08/2…
Here’s Kirkwood’s statement, which they somehow insist does not represent a repudiation of Klinzman’s free speech.

m.facebook.com/kirkwoodcommun…
Credit here has to go first to KCRG, the local ABC affiliate that for some reason decided it was a good use of time to dig through years of Klinzman’s old Facebook posts and then dump the results on Kirkwood’s desk. Bravo, KCRG!
But we also have to acknowledge the bravery of @KirkwoodPrez, who capitulated to the Rightwing Outrage Mob in less than 24 hours. That’s got to be a new record.
And about that Mob: big shout-out to Fox News, the Washington Times, and every other anti-PC Free Speech Warrior who led the charge. You guys are the real heroes.

foxnews.com/us/iowa-prof-s…

m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/…
(Honorable mention for @hinsonashley, Iowa Congressional candidate and noted defender of free speech)

This is the second campus scalp that the Right has claimed this week, by the way. Just in case you weren’t paying attention.

thecollegefix.com/vice-chancello…
That’s why I’ve been going so much lately about how conservatives need to start calling their own side out. I feel like I’ve been clear on this point. @DavidAFrench have I not been clear?

Thankfully, this has been a slow year so far for faculty firings over political speech. I’ll check my spreadsheet later, but I think this is just the fourth confirmed incident so far. But unless people start raising a ruckus (@robbysoave @conor64), the number is sure to grow.
Also: “But he advocated violence!” “This was incitement!”

Stop. Just please...stop.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Aug 20, 2025
An Israeli dance prof is suing UC Berekley for allegedly discriminating against her on the basis of her nationality. Having taught at the dance department before, she was encouraged in the summer 2023 to apply for renewal.

This is what the chair said a few months later. Image
It's not just the chair's cowardice that's so striking. It's the hey-I'm-real-sorry-but-in-a-way-I'm-doing-you-a-favor level of stupidity that really stands out to me. YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW!
The settlement is going to be insane.
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Aug 10, 2025
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Jews (or any other minority ethno-cultural group) wanting to discourage intermarriage and assimilation. It’s about cultural survival. Passing on something you feel has value.
By the way, this is something that critics of cultural appropriation should be able to immediately appreciate.
The harm in assimilation is obvious. The culture, which I value, is lost. Intermarriage is fine in itself, but tends to make assimilation much more likely. I’m a child of intermarriage myself, as is my kid. Love conquers all! But it can make other goals much more difficult.
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Feb 23, 2025
It’s gotta be said: much of the Jewish response to the Bibas family is flat-out insane. Genocidal, psychopathic, murderous, cruel, and out-of-control. And not just from the usual precincts of Jtwitter, either. It’s everywhere.

Stop. Step back from the Kahanism.
I logged on after Shabbat and found nothing but bloodlust. Dressed in a rueful “they forced us into this” fatalism, of course, but you could sense the eagerness. It’s understandable but still inhuman.
Obviously plenty of pro-Palestinian accounts are vomiting up their own brand of bile. Psychopaths like Saeed, Kiswani, El-Kurd. But I expect that sort of shit from them. They have precisely one rhetorical speed and we can all see how successful THAT’S proven to be.
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Jan 13, 2025
Angry about Katherine Franke's "retirement"? Good, you should be. But if people are serious about stopping something like this from happening again, they need to get serious about the cause. Because the precedent was set loooong ago.

A big-ish 🧵 Image
In fact, all of the tools now being used against pro-Palestine faculty (the DEI apparatus, Title VI complaints, collegiality discourse) were developed years ago to quash speech opposed by the left. And I have receipts to prove it.

Here's your imperial boomerang, folks. 2/
This prof worries about DEI being weaponized as a tool of repression. Buddy, that die was cast years ago. In fact, I'd wager that the use of DEI as a weapon is *less* effective now than it was five years ago. It's just that the target has (partially) changed. 3/ Image
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Oct 30, 2024
🚨The IHRA definition of antisemitism, if adopted and enforced by public universities, is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. So says a federal judge in Texas. A terrific (if, for reasons I'll explain in a second, somewhat inconclusive) decision.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Here's the gist. Last March after a series of protests by SJP and related groups on college campuses, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed GA-44, an executive order requiring public colleges and universities to prohibit and punish antisemitic speech.
gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/…Image
To define antisemitic speech, TX higher ed was told to use the IHRA definition and its attendant examples, which the legislature adopted in 2016. At the time, it was framed as simply a diagnostic tool for spotting antisemitic speech in the state.
statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/GV/htm/GV…Image
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Sep 26, 2024
I've gotten accused of being snarky and self-righteous lately, which tbf is probably warranted. So let me try this one with some sincerity: Everyone upset about the Muhlenberg should acknowledge the long line of tenured faculty fired for protected speech after leftwing outrage.
I'm talking about people like Charles Negy, who was fired after sending out these tweets.
foxnews.com/media/central-…Image
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Or Tim Boudreau, who was fired for using the n-word in class *as part of a lesson on language, journalism, and the law.* He also was tenured.
mlive.com/news/saginaw-b…
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