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Wayne State University has suspended an English professor and referred him to police for saying Stanford students who abused a conservative judge should have killed him instead of just heckling.
The professor is believed to be Steven Shaviro, a self-styled philosopher and teacher of English at the university, who wrote that Stanford students would be justified in killing the conservative judge whose appearance on campus was recently protested.
University president Roy Wilson announced the suspension Monday morning, which is when he said the school became aware of the post.
In a note, Wilson wrote that the professor works in the school's English department and has been suspended with pay.
Shaviro's controversial post read: 'Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.'
Wayne State English Professor Steven Shaviro who was suspended Monday for a social media post
Shaviro's post which appears to condone violence against political rivals
The professor wrote that 'right-wing' groups invite speakers to campuses across the country in order to provoke a reaction from progressive groups.
'The protesters get blamed instead of the bigoted speaker; the university administration finds a perfect excuse to side publicly with the racists or phobes; the national and international press has a field day saying that bigots are the ones being oppressed, rather than the people those bigots actually hate being the victims of oppression.'
Finally, the professor goes on to site the instance of Sholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish, Russian-born French poet, who in 1926 assassinated Symon Petliura, the former head of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Schwarzbard held Petliura responsible for the deaths of his family, who had been killed in the 1919 pogroms. He killed Petliura on a street in Paris.
'The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him
