Prof suspended over tweet won't return in 2013
Source: AP
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The chancellor of the University of Kansas announced Thursday that a journalism professor suspended over a tweet that angrily targeted the National Rifle Association after the Navy Yard shootings will not return to his classroom in 2013.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little issued a press release stating that David Guth, who was placed on administrative leave Sept. 20, would not teach the rest of this semester but would be assigned to other duties. It also said he would take a planned sabbatical in the spring. Teaching assignments for the fall of 2014 are not yet set.
Guth posted the tweet after the September shootings killed 13 people in Washington, D.C. It said, "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."
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Kansas City Star, KU prof who tweeted controversially back at work, but not classroom, which reports:
“All they’re doing is stalling, hoping that it will die down and everybody will forget about it,” said Smith, a Republican. “He was way out of line, way outside anything that’s covered by tenure, due process or anything else. As far as I’m concerned, it was hate speech.”
Smith said if Guth had commented on any other group of people he would have been fired. Guth’s continued employment, Smith said, will cause the lawmaker to look much harder at any request KU puts to the Legislature.
Guth has said his tweet was intended to launch conversation. He also has described himself as the victim of a campaign by gun-rights advocates who he thinks have unfairly vilified him.
Michigan State also had a similar response to English professor William Penn after he was recorded on video criticizing the Republican Party during a class. You can thank David Horowitz, Campus Reform, The College Fix, and the "COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE COMMIES" crowd.
And Senator Smith, ever heard of the First Amendment? And explain how Occidental Observer editor Kevin B. MacDonald is still employed as a psychology professor at Cal State Long Beach...and I am among millions of California taxpayers subsidizing a guy "known for his use of evolutionary theory to support his claim that Judaism is a 'group evolutionary strategy.'" Look him up in the SPLC and ADL.
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It's instances like this that have us all up tight about speaking our peace in the marketplace of ideas, the good ole USA! USA! USA! We're all turning into a bunch of little self-censors. 
