Todd Starnes
There is great outrage on Rocky Top after a University of Tennessee Knoxville employee compared President Trump’s immigration policies to the Holocaust.
Beth Hall Davis, the content strategy manager for the university’s division of student life, allegedly made the comparison in a social media post.
“Whatever you think you would have done during any human rights crisis in history, but notably and especially the Holocaust (because the events happening in the US are identical to what happened in the 1930s Germany), you are doing it right now,” she wrote. “Right now. This minute.”
“Are you protesting due process being stripped and the US government sending people to a concentration camp in another country? Are you calling your elected officials? Are you stepping into difficult conversations on the daily with the people around you?”
Tennessee State Sen. Brent Taylor fired off a letter to the president of the University of Tennessee, expressing great concern over the diatribe and urging an investigation.
“Such statements are not only historically inaccurate, but also deeply offensive to the memory of the millions who suffered during that tragic period,” Taylor wrote to President Randy Boyd.
“Unless Ms. Davis can provide evidence supporting her claim specifically that six million Jews have been executed under the Trump administration, I request appropriate disciplinary action be considered, including her potential dismissal,” Taylor wrote.
He said the integrity and credibility of the university were on the line.
“As a taxpayer-supported institution, the University of Tennessee must uphold a standard of factual accuracy and respect,” the Republican senator wrote.
Taylor correctly pointed out that we don’t need our tax dollars funding “crazy radicals in our state university.”
The senator posted a message late Wednesday saying that the staffer’s message had been removed and they are treating the matter as a serious issue.