Florida university ousts professor who called U.S. massacres hoaxes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Florida university ousts professor who called U.S. massacres hoaxes
Reuters
By Zachary Fagenson
4 hours ago

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida Atlantic University has dismissed a professor who said massacres at a Connecticut elementary school and a county office building in San Bernardino, California, were staged, the university said.

Media professor James Tracy's last day at the university in Boca Raton will be Friday, the school said in a statement after alerting him of the decision in a letter on Tuesday.

Tracy, 50, has worked at the university since 2002. He could not be reached on Wednesday and his attorney, Thomas Johnson, declined to comment.

Tracy's website, MemoryHoleBlog.com, gained notice in 2013 after he claimed the December 2012 massacre by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged by “crisis actors” hired by the Obama administration. The attack killed 26 people, including 20 children.

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[gregcrawford]

1. I'm sure he's not worried...

... Pox News will probably give him a job in Public Relations.

[FLPanhandle]

2. Pick any major event in history and there are conspiracy theorists.

Glad to see one go down in flames.

[LeftishBrit]

3. That's pretty horrible stuff...

and while I might have thought that a professor of mathematics or chemistry should not be fired for nasty political views that may be irrelevant to what they teach, this one was a professor of media. Definitely not suited to such a position!

[Aristus]

4. I'll bet every brain-dead gunfuck in America is going to crowdfund his period of

unemployment...

[Jerry442]

5. I'd defend some pretty noxious views to preserve academic freedom...

...but when it comes to the point of directly harassing victims' parents, I'm out.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Agree!!!

[Xithras]

9. Agreed. It wasn't his views, but his behaviors.

I'm also an academic freedom hardliner. You have the right to hold whatever opinion you want, and it's improper for an employer to fire you for it.

But this guy took his beliefs well beyond opinion and actively harassed and harmed people. It wasn't his "theories" that made him unfit for teaching, but his ghoulish behavior toward other people.

[shenmue]

6. What a piece of shit

[boobooday]

8. I met him a couple of times at academic conferences

I never got a hint that he was capable of such depraved bullshit.