Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“APSU did not follow the required termination process in this matter, and I deeply regret and apologize for the impact this has had on Professor Michael and on our campus community,” the university president said. “I am committed to ensuring that due process and fairness are upheld in all future actions.”
Kind of a hollow apology from the school president. “Sorry we didn’t follow the require termination process.” No apologies for trying to repress free speech. No apologies for over reacting when the professor posted a quote and nothing else. No apologies for trying to curry favor with an authoritarian regime by falling in line like a good little boy. Seriously, fuck that guy.
All that stuff is implied in the apology. You’re just fishing for criticism, if all those things were included, you’d criticize it for omitting something else.
The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.
Kind of a hollow apology from the school president. “Sorry we didn’t follow the require termination process.” No apologies for trying to repress free speech. No apologies for over reacting when the professor posted a quote and nothing else. No apologies for trying to curry favor with an authoritarian regime by falling in line like a good little boy. Seriously, fuck that guy.
“Sorry we got caught”
The $500k counts as an apology
it doesn’t. not to me. that’s counts as a plea to let the subject go and move on.
Like a settlement
All that stuff is implied in the apology. You’re just fishing for criticism, if all those things were included, you’d criticize it for omitting something else.
Hard disagree. They were very careful to claim the problem was just that the process wasn’t followed.
The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.