Many in higher education did n’t waste their time cheering on the attempted murder of former president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
Perhaps most noticeable is the University of Southern California’s Shaun Harper, who ended up having his post deleted by , Forbes , after he hypothesized , that Trump’s” surviving gunshots” could result in appealing to dark citizens.
Harper, who in 2022 claimed that if the January 6 “insurrectionists” had been mostly black they’d had been “massacred”, wrote that Trump possibly might state” And the Blacks, they love me because they know the dreadful noise of shots”. He added” Hopefully he does n’t. But it is n’t at all unthinkable”.
The executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center theorized that Trump” was state” that Tommy Smith and John Carlos ‘ 1968 Olympic Games raised black-gloved hands were an “homage” to them.
The University of British Columbia’s Karen Pinder, whose instructors website notes she “is dedicated to excellence in education in the UBC M. D. academic program”, tweeted soon after the killing” Crap, so near. Too bad”  , ( pictured ).
What a glorious days this could have been, Pinder said in response to a commenter who said she “reeeally wished the]shooter ] had better aim.”
Pinder’s X bill has since been made dormant.
Arie Perliger, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, stated in The Dialogue that the Trump shooting “fits quite properly into a storyline that they’ve been building and disseminating for the past few months” for many of the people on the far right.
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Perliger, a “principal inspector” for a just-under$ 1 million Department of Justice-funded initiative on mis/disinformation, went on to criticize the “increasing]political ] magnetization” in the United States since 2008″ … and specifically cited the Tea Party movement.
The University of Guleph’s Shoshanah Jacobs, in response to Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s statement expressing relief that Trump’s suspected gunman had been shot dead by the Secret Service, wrote” We’re executing suspects now”?
Jacobs responded,” Do we have to be happy?” when it was revealed that the suspect was killed because he was also an effective risk.
American University’s Allan Lichtman worried in the Los Angeles Times that” Republicans would employ the]Trump ] harm to denounce Democrats, running the ‘ threat of whipping up more democratic murder.'”
Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox, who “presides” over a university and Associated Press/USA Now “mass killings” collection, said the attempted execution may provide gun control to the middle as a battle problem.
Fox told Northeastern Global News that” the Democratic party has been a little reluctant to support sensible gun control measures.”  ,” Their gathering president has been shot. Fortunately, he did n’t get mortally wounded, but it certainly should help them reconsider some of their stances on sensible gun safety measures”.
Fox’s partner in the Northeastern region, Costas Panagopoulos, said the killing” could possibly be detrimental” for him because “many believe he has stoked the fires of political violence and department for political advantage, while acknowledging that it may lead to more sympathy for the 45th president.”
Before the Trump assassination attempt, UCLA School of Law professor Peter Arenella was concerned that” the United States ‘ democracy was already hanging by a thread,” and that the “iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in defiance of our flag waving behind him will lead to his election and the loss of our democracy.”
Arenella also noted that when he learned about the shooting, he admitted that Trump had staged it because the former president had made him” so cynical of everything he does” ( without any factual basis ).
The “only silver lining” of the shooting, Arenella added, was that the media might cease “obsessing” over President Biden’s verbal gaffes.
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