Rational maths professor fired after refusing woke reeducation, so judge strips crucial protection from his persecutors

The publicly funded University of North Texas was dealt a blow in court after a federal judge said school officials can be held responsible for firing employees for exercising their right of free speech.

In his 69-page order of March 11, Judge Sean Jordan, of the United States District Court for Eastern Texas, found that university officials should have known that math professor Nathaniel Hiers' speech "touched on a matter of public concern and that discontinuing his employment because of his speech violated the First Amendment," before they fired him for going public with his disagreement with the left-wing concept of "migroaggressions."

The university was claiming qualified immunity for school officials in the case, meaning that the school wanted its officials to be excluded from being held responsible for their actions merely because they were acting in their position as state employees. Jordan denied the claim of qualified immunity and also denied the school's demand to have the case dismissed outright.

According to Just the News, the case stems from an incident in 2019 when Hiers wrote "Don't leave garbage lying around" on a faculty lounge chalkboard right above a stack of flyers pushing the idea of "microaggressions." The flyers were not approved by the school for distribution, but some left-wing professor left them out for people to take regardless.

Math department Chairman Ralph Schmidt demanded the "coward" who wrote the message come forward, according to Just the News. Hiers acknowledged he wrote the line as a joke and refused to apologize. He also refused to renounce his disagreement with the concept of "microaggressions," and refused to be subjected to "supplemental diversity training," according to Just the News.

Only days later, the school rescinded Hiers' teaching contract. The school used the absurd excuse that Hiers could "be perceived as threatening" others with his opposition to extremist, left-wing orthodoxy.

.https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/math-professor-fired-refusing-woke-reeducation-judge-strips-crucial-protection-persecutors/

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Rational maths professor fired after refusing woke reeducation, so judge strips crucial protection from his persecutors

Rational maths professor fired after refusing woke reeducation, so judge strips crucial protection from his persecutors

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