University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis appeared to defend the murder of Aaron "Jay" Danielson, the member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, during recent social unrest in Portland, Oregon.
In 2012, Loomis came under scrutiny after he called for NRA executive Wayne LaPierre's "head on a stick" following the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Just weeks later, in January 2013, Loomis said, “I know the central mission of the Republican Party is to have a membership made up entirely of old rural white people."
"He killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it"
Now, Loomis is once again under fire after publishing a blog post titled "Why was Michael Reinoehl killed?" Reinoehl is the man suspected of fatally shooting Danielson. Reinoehl was killed as federal authorities tried to arrest him.
“Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him. Well, now the cops have killed him," Loomis wrote in the September 4 blog post.
“I am extremely anti-conspiracy theory. But it’s not a conspiracy theory at this point in time to wonder if the cops simply murdered him. The police is [sic] shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors," Loomis continued.
In the comment section of the blog post, one reader challenged Loomis by writing, "Erik, he shot and killed a guy," referring to Reinoehl.
Loomis responded by saying, “He killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.” He further added that “tactically, that’s a different story. But you could say the same thing about John Brown.”
Loomis furthered compared Reinoehl to Brown who in the 1800s used violence as a means of fighting slavery.
One reader then asked, “What’s so great about assassinating a rando fascist? And in the absence of a sound affirmative justification, it should be easy to envision the drawbacks.”
Loomis was quick to reply with, “What’s so great about assassinating random slaveholders, said liberals to John Brown.”
In a separate comment, Loomis wrote, "the problem with violence is that it usually, though not always, is a bad idea. That I agree with."
Loomis said in another comment, "Yes, sometimes violence is necessary, say to avoid greater physical harm, i.e. self-defense, or to defeat a literal army of fascists who are trying to kill people. But, ideologically, I think the idea that violence is good if it's against our political enemies is a core part of fascism, and so the ideological opposition to that idea should be its opposite - that violence as a general rule is bad, unless the specific context of that situation requires a violent response."
Loomis made headlines Tuesday for another comment he made on Twitter. In response to MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeting, "Trump is objectively pro-Covid," Loomis tweeted "yeah, I mean, once Republicans figured out COVID was going to affect people of color and the poor disproportionately, they stopped caring about doing anything about it."
Yeah, I mean, once Republicans figured out COVID was going to affect people of color and the poor disproportionately, they stopped caring about doing anything about it. twitter.com/chrislhayes/st…
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This a-hole needs to be fired. Let him work at Starbucks.
ReplyDeleteDehumanizing won't work out well for the few, the woke, the pedo, the homo, the commie... Just dug his own grave, most likely. It's just a matter of time. Funny thing? It is those that he supports, not improper English there, which will end up slicing him. Funny indeed. Being Jew or queer doesn't mean a thing to groids or muzzies. Hitler was a bit of a hero to those.
ReplyDeleteThat forehead is an awfully big target.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'
Shouldn'rt this man's address, phone number and personal details be posted prominently on the internet? I mean given what he preaches isn't this returning the favor?
ReplyDeleteHis address is not in my ledger. I wonder if his name is on a bullet.
DeleteLike I would care what that stupid looking fuck thinks.
ReplyDeleteThe university should step up and remove this obviously mentally disturbed individual from having any contact with the students.
ReplyDeleteHow can someone advocate the murder of an entire group of people simply because of a difference in politics? Oh, wait, it is a Leftists we are speaking of here.
ReplyDeleteSelf-proclaimed morality is now above the law? Sounds like a hallmark left characteristic that destroys civilizations. That Suckcokcer needs to go.
ReplyDelete“Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him. Well, now the cops have killed him,"
ReplyDeleteMaybe he should have turned himself in at a police station. Still think he would have been killed? Moron.
Obviously if the murder of a Trump supporter can be justified, use those same criteria to murder Biden, Pelosi, et all, and include this professor. Seems fair to me.
ReplyDeleteUseful idiots
ReplyDelete"Well, now the cops have killed him,..."
ReplyDeleteOne less loser for society to deal with.
But what really needs to happen, is to remove worthless "educated" Marxists like you from...everywhere!