University dean resigns over statements about Biden voters
Source: ABC News
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A dean at a university in Virginia has resigned after posting a statement on Facebook that called supporters of President-elect Joe Biden ignorant, anti-American and anti-Christian.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that Virginia Wesleyan University announced the resignation Monday in a statement on its website.
The school in Virginia Beach said Paul Ewell resigned as Dean of Virginia Wesleyan University Global Campus. He's also leaving his job as professor of management, business and economics.
Ewells post told Biden supporters to unfriend him and accused them of corrupting not only the election but our youth
our country. His statements were made on his private Facebook page. But they became public after someone circulated a screenshot.
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)he's their kind.
Aristus
(66,365 posts)Sorry you couldn't get the hang of this Facebook thing.
You must not have known that people can see what you post...
DBoon
(22,366 posts)you post it, the public WILL see it
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)SunSeeker
(51,556 posts)RAB910
(3,501 posts)You cant be Christian and support Trump and his GOP
Escurumbele
(3,392 posts)I told her she lost any moral authority to preach Christianity when she voted for an anti-Christ amoral and criminal individual like trump, so please stop sending me Christian propaganda, I tolerated it before but I don't intend to tolerate it from her anymore.
RAB910
(3,501 posts)but as a personal challenge
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)They buy out his contract? Seems like that's how it goes all the time.
keithbvadu2
(36,804 posts)He can get a position at Trump U.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)so Trumpy is his savior.
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..................The Virginian-Pilot reported on the dean's comments last week. President Donald Trump retweeted an Associated Press version of the story and used the word Progress! to apparently show approval of Ewells sentiments.
University spokeswoman Stephanie Smaglo said last week that Ewell has apologized for the post. But she declined to comment further after Mondays announcement.
Ewell told the university's student newspaper, the Marlin Chronicle, that he was upset and regrets the things he said. He said he did not really mean them....................
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Amazed this man in a position of power wasn't self-aware enough to realize it
RobinA
(9,893 posts)in academia, to boot. Business I can see, they don't care until they do. Academia is supposed to be better than this kind of thing.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)MissMillie
(38,557 posts)...you'd hope that people would keep their ignorant thoughts to themselves.
On the other hand, I guess it's a good thing that this guy let people know what kind of person he is, being that he's an educator and all.
mopinko
(70,103 posts)keep it up, fuzzball.
MissMillie
(38,557 posts)I don't remember where I heard the similar sentiment (maybe some movie) but it was a person of color saying they didn't worry so much about the guy in the sheet. They KNOW where the person wearing the sheet stands. It's the racists NOT wearing the sheets they worried about.
patphil
(6,176 posts)CINO's..Christians in name only.
They don't appear to have any idea about the teachings of Jesus.
But, they're really very good when it comes to the condemnation thing.
Their false understanding of true Christianity does indeed corrupt their own children, and ultimately the entire nation, by sowing hatred in their hearts.
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Grimelle
(219 posts)Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through The Republican Party, our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ― Isaac Asimov
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Cool!
pandr32
(11,583 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)ashredux
(2,605 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)shotten99
(622 posts)Facebook is an open forum, and this is an opinion that he has every right to express. Of course, I have every right to disagree with him. Until he makes comments like this at his place of work, it doesn't serve any purpose to hold him accountable in this way.
This is what Bill Maher was talking about last Friday. This is the type of thing that will lead the Republicans back to a House majority in 2022.
I'm expecting to catch grief for this, too.
Turin_C3PO
(13,991 posts)He wasn't fired. Why would that have anything to do with who controls the House in 2022? By no means is it certain that Republicans will gain control.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)He is a marked man and probably could not function there in a normal way. Things like tenure (not sure if it applied in this case) don't help you.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)oldsoftie
(12,536 posts)Oscarthegreat
(121 posts)Having academic degrees doesn't prevent one from being an imbecile.
sloopdog50
(36 posts)Damn them. Filling our children with liberal ideas and such!
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Weird.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)He is marked for life. The times they are a changing.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)with that, or they might be next on the chopping block.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)The speed of his departure suggest to me that he may have been ready to go anyway, and took a sweetener to get out of their hair without a fuss.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)At some universities that is very difficult to achieve these days. Is is hard to say what the circumstances of his leaving are, but when you become famous on social media in this way, there is a new reality. Often, it is best to just accept it and move on. I agree that the university might have paid him off, but they would have to do it in a way that didn't come back on them.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Even if it was the Dean of Global Learning or whatever (basically an online learning expansion gig).
barbtries
(28,794 posts)jeez
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)(name not too far off but the schools definitely aren't close to each other! )
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/journalists/hillary-rodham-clinton
Nice to see they have a cool tribute page to her there!
barbtries
(28,794 posts)i wasn't sure. I went to El Camino college and Durham Tech!
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)I went to UMASS so know that both Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke (which is near UMASS) are both in MA (and were all-women schools).