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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Mike Bedigan

University of South Dakota professor can’t be fired for calling Charlie Kirk a ‘Nazi’, judge rules

A university professor who wrote a Facebook post calling Charlie Kirk a “Nazi,” shortly after the MAGA commentator was shot dead in Utah, cannot be fired over his online comments, a judge has ruled.

Phillip Michael Hook, a tenured Professor of Art at the University of South Dakota, stated that he did not “give a flying f***” about Kirk and described him as a “hate spreading Nazi” in the post on the afternoon of September 10.

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