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Florida college to fire professor accused of ‘racist’ tweets
New York Post ^ | January 14, 2021 | 1:08pm | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 01/17/2021 6:52:37 AM PST by Zhang Fei

A Florida college is seeking to fire a professor whose controversial tweets — including one claiming “black privilege is real” – led to widespread calls for his termination as protests raged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

An investigation by the University of Central Florida determined that associate psychology professor Charles Negy created a “hostile” classroom environment and tried to deter students from filing complaints, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

The probe also found that Negy didn’t report a student’s claim that she was sexually assaulted by one of his teaching assistants and gave false information during the investigation, which began last summer as students and alumni called for his removal from campus.

More than 500 messages about Negy were received by the college, including some that alleged he subjected students to “discriminatory harassment” in class. University officials notified him Wednesday they plan to terminate him on Jan. 25, although UCF says his controversial tweets had no role in the decision, the newspaper reported.

“None of the findings in the investigation are a result of Dr. Negy’s comments on Twitter, which are protected as free expression, or comments in the classroom that were the subject of some students’ complaints but that the university determined were protected by academic freedom,” a university spokesman wrote the newspaper in an email.

Negy, who has been on paid administrative leave since January, is not teaching this semester. He has until Jan. 25 to submit a written response to the “serious” allegations, according to a letter sent to him by an interim dean.

One student told UCF investigators she reported to Negy in February 2014 that one of his teaching assistants sexually assaulted her at her apartment. But the professor said she wouldn’t have a case unless she “fabricated information to the police, which he

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2020; antifa; blm; centralfl; charlesnegy; fl; florida; kag; maga; pc; trump; ucf
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Fired for saying "black privilege is real".
1 posted on 01/17/2021 6:52:37 AM PST by Zhang Fei
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Saying the TRUTH can get your life devastated now.


2 posted on 01/17/2021 6:55:19 AM PST by House Atreides
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Institution claims the tweet had nothing to do with the firing, instead he is being fired for not reporting a report (to him?) that a student was sexually harassed by one of his teaching assistants.

In other words, they found something.

Nobody’s perfect, you know. You can always get somebody if you look hard enough. Except, Mueller couldn’t get Trump.


3 posted on 01/17/2021 6:59:43 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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I’ve been wondering for a while now, is the endgame to make White males go crazy and burn continents, or become beta cucks?


4 posted on 01/17/2021 7:02:16 AM PST by EEGator
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This is the French Revolution on steroids. The Left is not going to like the monster they have created.


5 posted on 01/17/2021 7:05:00 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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The probe also found that Negy didn’t report a student’s claim that [...]

If you're a college instructor, and howl "Black Lives Matter," there will be no probe to reveal that you were once incarcerated on drug charges; vandalized a Trump poster; were caught shoplifting.

If, however, you state "White Lives Matter," you can be sure that your entire life will be put through the CAT scanner. It will then be revealed that you: Kissed a girl in 2nd grade; were once caught "spit-balling" in 7th grade; wore a "Fritos Bandito" costume for Hallowe'en in 1972; etc.

Regards,

6 posted on 01/17/2021 7:07:37 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Uh, pretty sure the whiney ass students are creating a hostile condition. Just sayin’. 😯🙌🐂💩


7 posted on 01/17/2021 7:08:51 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from the inside? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed.)
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To: House Atreides

[Saying the TRUTH can get your life devastated now.]


Whether something is the truth is always up for debate. But what’s clear is that stating beliefs unpalatable to the far left currently running the Democratic party can end your career or lead to serious legal expenses and national notoriety, even if you end up prevailing in court.

People think of blasphemy, and its accompanying punishments, as an artifact of an era of theocracy. While no one is killed for blaspheming the far left ideological code of the day, careers continue to be ruined and livelihoods destroyed on a routine basis for pointing out in public forums what is obvious from the data - that white privilege is a fiction, and black privilege is real.


8 posted on 01/17/2021 7:10:36 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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If universities were to fire their “racist” instructors and staff, equally, regardless of the race targeted, using current cancelation criteria they’d lose half their staff. Maybe a good purge would be helpful.


9 posted on 01/17/2021 7:18:51 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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its a horrible semi community college which made
Orlando lefty .
Invested with nothing out of state crazy lefties . from hell holes like Cali Communism . Alumni my ass .

You mean losers working at Chevron with UCF degrees in Satan studies . The Murdoch propaganda sheet is a
commie rag peddling commie garbage like this .

10 posted on 01/17/2021 7:20:35 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalist )
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We need to contact DeSantis. Encourage him fire the college president. These students should be suspended or expelled. Let’s start bringing sanity back to the US. Start in Florida.


11 posted on 01/17/2021 7:30:20 AM PST by Betty Jane
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White privilege is real: universally accepted and taught in accredited college classes

Black privilege is real: fired

Who are the racists?


12 posted on 01/17/2021 7:30:55 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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[The Murdoch propaganda sheet is a
commie rag peddling commie garbage like this . ]


I’m not sure they’re praising the firing. They’re just pointing out that speech codes have infected academia to the point that stating right-wing opinions about race are now grounds for overriding the protection of academic tenure. I can’t get all that worked up about it, since I think academic tenure is bunk, and a thinly-veiled teacher’s boondoggle meant to mirror the UAW’s enviable job protections. But it’s clear that blasphemy codes have migrated from the religious sphere to its secular counterpart.


13 posted on 01/17/2021 7:32:36 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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There has been no free speech for decades in the once-great USA. But now you lose your job and are put on a “do not hire” list, effectively throwing you out into the street and eliminating you from this world.


14 posted on 01/17/2021 7:44:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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so he loses his job for speaking the truth. Got it.


15 posted on 01/17/2021 7:47:44 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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UCF has a radio station, that broadcasts news from only NPR! The administration and other faculty are similar.


16 posted on 01/17/2021 7:54:19 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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More evidence that we have become a very sick society.


17 posted on 01/17/2021 8:07:53 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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It's not a coincidence that both Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers chose careers in ‘education”.
18 posted on 01/17/2021 8:08:52 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: EEGator

“I’ve been wondering for a while now, is the endgame to make White males go crazy and burn continents, or become beta cucks?”

I believe the ball is in our court and we seem to be opting for the latter.

Don’t blame them for wanting us to be happy being cucks,.
It’s our fault for passively taking it and doing nothing about that. We have no will.


19 posted on 01/17/2021 8:15:40 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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[There has been no free speech for decades in the once-great USA. But now you lose your job and are put on a “do not hire” list, effectively throwing you out into the street and eliminating you from this world.]


There are any number of other jobs out there. It’s just that for this guy, his time in academia is over. Plenty of other things he can do. His mistake was to assume that academic tenure protected him. He should probably also remove himself from high profile social media platforms. Free Republic is probably more his speed.


20 posted on 01/17/2021 8:36:06 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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