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WEBVTT TIM: CLEMSON UNIVERSITY WASALSO VERY QUICK TO DENOUNCE THEPOST, WHILrtE OTHERS ON SOCIALMEDIA CALLED FOR THE PROFESSOR'SFIRING.ON CLEMSON'S CAMPUS TODAY,REACTION TO A PROFESSOR'SFACEBOOK POST DREW REACTIONSLIKE THIS ONE.rt>> I MEAN, I WOULD HOPE THAT APROFESSOR AT A SCHOOL LIKE THISIS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THATHE'S INCORRECT WITH THATSTATEMENT. TIM: THIS, AFTER ASSISTANTPROFESrtSOR BART KNIJNENBURG WROTEON HIS PERSONAL PAGE, "ALL TRUMPSUPPORTERS, NAY, ALL REPUBLICANSARE RACIST SCUM."AND IT DIDN'T STOP THERE.rtKNIJNENBURG SAID HE ADMIRESANYONE WHO STANDS UP AGAINSTWHITE SUPREMACY, VIOLENT ORNON-VIOLENT, ADDING, "THIS NEEDSTO STOP BY ANY MEANSrt NECESSARY."HASHTAG, "#PUNCHNAZIS.">> YOU SHOULD JUST ALLOW HIM TOSAY WHAT HE WANTS TO SAY.BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HE'S ArtPROFESSOR, SO YOU HAVE TO BEKIND OF CAREFUL ON HOW YOU WORDTHINGS. TIM: REACTION WAS MORE FIERCE ONTHE MESSAGE BOARD TIGERNET,WHERE ONE PERSON WROTE, "ANYrtCLEMSON PROFESSOR WHO ADVOCATESVIOLENCE SHOULD BE TERMINATEDIMMEDIATELY."WHILE ANOTHER PERSON WROTE,"PLEASE EMAIL CLEMSON UNIVERSITYrtPRESIDENT JIM CLEMENTS ON THISISSUE.">> YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU THINK,BUT IF YOU'RE IN A POSITION OFBEING IN FRONT OF STUDENTS, IrtREALLY DON'T THINK SO. TIM: CLEMSON UNIVERSITY WASQUICK TO RESPOND, SAYING THEREMARKS IN QUESTION ARE NOTREFLECTIVE OF THE UNIVERSITY'SVIEWS.rtOFFICIALS SAID THEY ARE LOOKINGINTO THE MATTER, BUT DID NOT SAYWHETHER DISCIPLINARY ACTION WILLBE TAKEN.I DID REACH OUT TO PROFESSORrtBART KNIJNENBURG, BUT HE DID NOTRESPOND, AND THE FACEBOOK POSTIN QUESTION HAS BEEN MADE

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A college news website reported that a Clemson University professor labeled President Donald Trump supporters and Republican as “racist scum,” and says he appeared to advocate violence.CampusReform.org, a college news website, posted screen grabs of tweets and Facebook posts that appear to be under accounts belonging to Professor Bart Knijnenburg.Knijnenburg is an assistant professor in Human-Centered Computing. In Knijnenburg’s online resume, he describes himself as a “researcher on privacy decision-making and recommender systems.” His resume says: “Our online lives are full of small but difficult decisions. Which app should I install? Should I post this on Facebook or not? … In my research, I try to understand the psychological principles behind these online decisions.” Mitchell Gunter, the South Carolina Campus Correspondent For Campus Reform and an engineering student at Clemson, posted an article Wednesday that included several screen grabs attributed to Knijnenburg’s personal Facebook page, including one from Aug. 16 that said: “All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum.” In the comments on the post, Knijnenburg said: “All republicans? Yes. Your complacency made this happen. Pick a side: denounce your affiliation, or admit you’re a racist.”When one commenter, who appeared to be a student, said that Knijnenburg’s remarks saddened him, Knijnenburg responded: “You should come live in the south for a while. It's exhausting. The republican ideology of ‘everyone is equal and nobody deserves a handout’ is naive at best, covertly racist at worst. I truly believe that turning a blind eye makes you complicit in what is happening now.”Another previous post on Aug. 12 said: “I admire anyone who stands up against white supremacy, Violent or non-violent. This needs to stop, by any means necessary. #PunchNazis”All of the posts and tweets have been removed and are only online in the screen grabs by Campus Reform.Gunter told WYFF News 4: "These posts were publicly available prior to my reaching out to Professor Bart Knijnenburg. Following my media inquiry, I was blocked on Facebook, and I am given to believe he has privatized his account."Clemson University Relations Vice President Mark Land released a statement Wednesday: “The university is aware of remarks attributed to a Clemson faculty member, which appear to have come from his personal Facebook account, and is looking into the matter.“The remarks in question are not reflective of the university’s views. The university has consistently made it clear that expressions condoning or advocating violence or hatred have no place on this, or any, college campus.”Campus Reform describes itself as “a watchdog to the nation's higher education system” that “exposes bias and abuse on the nation's college campuses” It is a project of the Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute, founded in 1979, describes itself training and teaching “conservatives of all ages how to succeed in politics, government and the media.”