Tennessee Tech professor Andrew Donadio refutes racist label hung on him by colleagues for his role in Turning Point USA
A Tennessee Tech professor is refuting his colleagues attempts to label him as a racist in fliers posted on campus.
Faculty members Julia Gruber and Andrew Smith allegedly spread fliers on campus that said the school s Turning Point USA members and the chapter s faculty adviser, Andrew Donadio, were not welcome, according to Fox 17 Nashville. I m not sure why they would decide to attack the students and myself, and create an environment that s hostile to communication, that s threatening and intimidating, Donadio told Fox & Friends on Saturday, adding that his colleagues who posted the fliers are experts in English and knew exactly what they were doing.
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The professors say they didn’t threaten their colleague but rather criticized him in a way that should be protected. They also feel they have targets on their backs for being politically liberal in a county where 70 percent of votes went to Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
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Within days, Hatemiâs email to the student was published on Campus Reform, a conservative website that bills itself as the â#1 Source for College Newsâ and whose stated mission is to expose âliberal bias and abuse on the nationâs college campuses.â The article accused Hatemi of having âlashed outâ at the student and âresponded harshlyâ to his request. Quotes from Hatemiâs email also appeared in right-wing publications like The Federalist, The Blaze, and the Post Millennial, and they spread on social media, where they were manipulated and stripped of context. A deluge of hate mail followed, directed at Hatemi as well as at his universityâs administration. Some of it threatened violence, prompting campus police to intervene, though Hatemi declined to comment on the details. The university did not respond to a request for comment.
Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:35 AM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz smirks from the stage at a 2019 event hosted by conservative group Turning Point USA. Amid U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz s unending flood of bluster and bullshit from mocking VP Kamala Harris for going to a bakery to hurling empty threats at Major League Baseball it might have been easy to overlook real news that broke this week about Texas junior senator. Namely that a watchdog group filed a pair of ethics complaints accusing the GOP lawmaker of using campaign money to promote a book he released last fall. Politicos are barred from using campaign cash for personal gain.
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