{"id":303,"date":"2003-07-30T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/30\/professor-fired-for-belonging-to-group-of-racist-jackasses\/"},"modified":"2003-07-30T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T03:45:12","slug":"professor-fired-for-belonging-to-group-of-racist-jackasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Professor fired for belonging to group of racist jackasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the allegations are true, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustachronicle.com\/stories\/073003\/met_124-8863.shtml\">this <\/a>is pretty appalling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goldsmith claims art department chairman Jim Craft told him on June 20 that he could no longer work at the college because he was a member of the League of the South.<\/p>\n<p>The college, a Christian liberal arts college with about 1,500 students in Tigerville, had no comment Tuesday on the lawsuit filed in Greenville County.<\/p>\n<p>The League of the South seeks to &#8220;advance the cultural, social, economic and political well-being and independence of the Southern people by all honourable means,&#8221; according to its Web site. It has been labeled a neo-Confederate hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if a professor chairs his local Klan and bakes cookies for the mafia when he&#8217;s not too busy organizing bowling night for NAMBLA; what he does outside the classroom ought be his own business, and no grounds for firing. In <i>particular<\/i>, firing someone for his political opinions outside of class is reprehensible, and goes against the spirit of free expression.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~prometheus_6\/archives\/2003_07_27_prometheus_6.html#105962355159739815\">Prometheus 6 <\/a>comments.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-deltasone-safely-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the allegations are true, this is pretty appalling: Goldsmith claims art department chairman Jim Craft told him on June 20 that he could no longer work at the college because he was a member of the League of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}