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@AtlantaAntifa@kolektiva.socialUGA's College of Engineering has just posted a statement about George Haynie, their neo-Nazi staffer. The news isn’t good:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DD42DUOxkda/?img_index=1
Yes, George Haynie is now back on the job as a manager at the College of Engineering.
We encourage you to read the response linked to above by Mutual Aid Athens, which contrasts the kid glove treatment of Haynie with the iron fist punishment carried out against pro-Palestinian UGA students also exercising their right to free speech. UGA is currently being sued by CAIR over this treatment.
According to their statement, UGA put George Haynie on administrative leave for a month or so, then asked him if he really held a nation-wide neo-Nazi conference and entertainment event on his property featuring a giant flaming swastika visible from space. He said something along the lines of, “Yes, but I wasn’t directly personally involved with it.” They said something along the lines of, “Oh that’s okay then, come on back to work.”
In their own words:
"As a state institution subject to Board of Regents policy and the First Amendment, the University of Georgia cannot discipline employees for personal, off-campus expressive activity, no matter how offensive or repugnant those activities may be."
This is complete bullshit.
It’s clear that the UGA spent this time making a cost analysis and are gambling that they’ll lose less money catering to neo-Nazis and their sympathizers than they'd lose by doing the right thing for their university community and firing George Haynie.
As another contrast, this time non-political, we’d like to point to UGA’s 2023 firing of Victoria Bowles. Bowles was a football recruiting staffer who received horrific injuries following a fatal crash in a car that was driven by another UGA football recruiting staffer. She exercised her freedom of speech to sue the university for placing her in that position, and then the University quickly fired her.
UGA could easily fire George Haynie if they wanted to. They simply don’t want to.
Our advice to the UGA and Athens community (especially to Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ+ students, and others most targeted by neo-Nazis) is to organize together with each other and make the University see that your lives are worth far more than a few dollars on the bottom line.
For further reference, our original post exposing the Haynies:
@igd_news @AtlantaAntifa Obvious counter for this is for SJP to permanently disaffiiate from the official student group system and processes, take everything but actual organizing and protests off campus, and all on-campus work is done in their capacity as individual students. There is even the option of having nonstudents act as contractors to carry out missions that if done by a student could bring these garbage disciplinary proceedings. It might even pay to trade off these operatives with those near other universities to hinder investigations.
The idea here is to operate the same way a banned frat with an off-campus frathouse would: beyond the reach of the university's police and disciplinary systems. I don't think they can expel a student for membership in ANY organization that makes no claim to university affiliation,
Obviously SJP chapters are going to have to be as ruthless as the worst of pro-IOF university administrations to defeat them. The battlefield like a chessboard must be level. No more garbage about "they go low, we go high." When an enemy peddling genocide goes low, STOMP them, and do so with everything you've got.