Posted on 07/24/2020 2:15:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
I used to post his columns for many years and had a large ping list. Unfortunately I lost the list.
RIP, Mike!
So sad!
RIP.
I suspect there was more to the story of him taking the buy-out retirement from the University. May God rest his soul.
JoMa
It will take a lot to convince me he wasn’t murdered or Breibarted.
RIP
By his previous reasoning, “liberating the Nazi concentration camps was wrong if it’s wrong to impose our values upon other cultures.”
“I mean think about it, it is just so ridiculous,” he continued, “so I had this shock-out-of-atheism moment.”
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It would not surprise me if a leftist or BLM or Antifa killed him for notoriety.
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"As he wraps up his final years teaching at UNCW, he expressed deep concern for everything from the student culture on college campuses to the professoriate. The “classical liberal professor” exists no more, replaced instead by a rising number of millennial professors who lack a basic understanding of free speech, he explained."
“I don’t know how any conservative professor is going to be able to survive on a secular campus … as a result of that shift away from liberalism,” he said. “We have got to stop using the term liberal bias. It’s not bias and it’s not liberalism. It’s something much deeper and fundamentally flawed than that.”
If so, it would perhaps qualify him as a Christian martyr.
Wow, he is a big loss. I very much enjoyed his columns and his battles with the university.
It will be listed as a Rona death. Mark my words.
I very much agree; this is a big loss. And a terribly sad one.
He may have been a Conservative Christian thorn in the side of that University but he was also a tremendous asset to them in ways they don’t realize yet.
Peach
What a blow to hear this news. RIP Mike - you fought the ‘good fight’ and will be terribly missed.
New Hanover investigates UNCW Professor Mike Adams’ death
The sheriff’s office found Adams during a wellness check at his home
The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office confirmed they are investigating the death of UNCW Professor Mike Adams.
The sheriff’s office responded to 328 Windsong Road in Wilmington at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Lt. Jerry Brewer.
Brewer said the sheriff’s office found Adams after going to the home for a wellness check.
New Hanover County property records confirm the Windsong Road residence was purchased by Adams in 2005.
Crime scene tape has since been removed, and law enforcement has left the area.
Adams, a sociology and criminal justice professor at UNCW, was featured in local and national news several times over the years, including in the last couple of months following calls from students, alumni, faculty members, and others to fire him for controversial Twitter posts.
One of the posts called into question criticized N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper’s decision to shut down much of the state due to COVID-19 and was widely condemned as racist, leading to national attention on the matter: On May 29, Adams wrote, “This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in a slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go.”
Following a public outcry, which included several online petitions asking UNCW to fire Adams, the school announced in early July they reached a settlement with the professor, the StarNews reported. He would be paid $504,702.76 for lost salary and retirement benefits over a five-year period and would retire on Aug. 1.
Adams was previously featured in news articles across the country in 2016 when he drew criticism for an online column he wrote ridiculing a UNCW student who identified as both queer and Muslim.
UNCW has also previously been in court with Adams -- something they stated they wanted to avoid now, which led to his retirement settlement -- when a jury ruled in his favor that he was denied a promotion due to speaking about his views. The lawsuit, filed in 2007, led to Adams being awarded $50,000 in back pay and a $9,000 raise while UNCW paid out $615,000 in attorney’s feeds in 2014 after losing an appeal.
It does look like it.
What is a Rona death?
“We have got to stop using the term liberal bias. It’s not bias and it’s not liberalism. It’s something much deeper and fundamentally flawed than that.”
So true, so true. May be something fundamentally evil as well.
This is a horrible loss for our side. I can’t believe it.
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