Catholic Teacher Fired for Criticizing Black Lives Matter Movement: Conservatives ‘Need to Be on Offense’

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

 

Quote

 

Conservatives must always be on offense to secure political victories, said Timothy Gordon, a Catholic high school theology teacher who was fired for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, offering his remarks on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host John Hayward.

Gordon described Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization on Twitter. He recalled, “I said Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization. BLM was declared a BIE — a black identity extremist movement — which is a form of home-spun terror, according the FBI.”

“[Black Lives Matter] is essentially a non-falsifiable religious cult that sets itself specifically against Christianity, just like the French Revolution did,” said Gordon. “They want destroyed the Western nuclear family. They want to destroy private education. They want to destroy the basis for the Western nuclear family, which is heterosexual marriage.”

 

National Review’s John Hirschauer reported about Gordon’s firing:

Until recently, Tim was a theology teacher at a Catholic high school. Between his two books, his podcast, and his full-time job as a teacher, Gordon was able to support his family and the expansive medical needs of his daughter.

His daughter, who had been suffering from relentless bouts of seizures, recently underwent a hemispherectomy, a rare form of neurosurgery in which a large portion of one of the brain’s hemispheres is removed. It is an expensive procedure, and Tim was fortunate to have insurance from the Catholic high school that employed him to defray some of those expenses.

Members of that high-school community emailed Tim, wishing his daughter well during the surgery. They prayed for her on the morning announcements. But after Tim said something unfashionable about Black Lives Matter in public, his employment at the school was swiftly terminated. No longer covered by the school’s insurance, his daughter’s expensive recovery would have to be financed out-of-pocket.

 

 

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/06/24/catholic-teacher-fired-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter-movement-conservatives-need-to-be-on-offense/

 

Another outrage firing, another lawsuit. Hope he's set for life for the attempt to have it ruined.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Dashinka 24,793]

41 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

 

 

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/06/24/catholic-teacher-fired-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter-movement-conservatives-need-to-be-on-offense/

 

Another outrage firing, another lawsuit. Hope he's set for life for the attempt to have it ruined.

I agree, this cancel culture has to be stopped.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,382]

43 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I agree, this cancel culture has to be stopped.

If he had called all white people devils, he would be fine. I am a pretty woke old white guy, but I am starting to sense this isn't about equality

 

I was very sympathetic to the killing of the young man in Brunswick Ga and horrified at Floyd, but my mood has changed from sympathy and support to feeling like my race has had war declared on it .

 

There would have been no emancipation proclamation with out huge support from white people.

Ditto the civil rights movement and voting rights act.

Edited June 24, 2020 by Nature Boy 2.0

[laylalex 7,300]

It's useful to look at reporting that includes information other than what comes from the person who was fired to give some more context. Here's an article from the very middle of the road local paper, the Bakersfield Californian: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/fired-garces-memorial-teacher-stands-by-social-media-posts-targeting-black-lives-matter/article_dade2334-a76a-11ea-b2f3-db20e38a019e.html

[Dashinka 24,793]

29 minutes ago, laylalex said:

It's useful to look at reporting that includes information other than what comes from the person who was fired to give some more context. Here's an article from the very middle of the road local paper, the Bakersfield Californian: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/fired-garces-memorial-teacher-stands-by-social-media-posts-targeting-black-lives-matter/article_dade2334-a76a-11ea-b2f3-db20e38a019e.html

Didn’t really say anything different.

[laylalex 7,300]

Just now, Dashinka said:

Didn’t really say anything different.

Really? It was to my eyes not only written in a completely different tone, it also included a significant amount of counterpoint from the school, students and the local Diocese which aren't in that Breitbart article. Also, besides only presenting Gordon's point of view, that Breitbart link froze my laptop!

[Dashinka 24,793]

9 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Really? It was to my eyes not only written in a completely different tone, it also included a significant amount of counterpoint from the school, students and the local Diocese which aren't in that Breitbart article. Also, besides only presenting Gordon's point of view, that Breitbart link froze my laptop!

The only counterpoint from the school was that he was not authorized to speak for the school.   Otherwise, they do not comment on HR matters which is SOP for most large organizations that may face lawsuits.  From the information I saw from the teacher, it didn’t appear he was speaking for the school, but I suppose the legal system will sort that out.

[laylalex 7,300]

Local news station: https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/garces-teacher-says-he-was-fired-for-social-media-posts-that-critics-call-messages-of-ignorance-and-hate/

[yuna628 9,713]

He sounds fun. I can imagine his personnel  file was an interesting one..

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

2 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

The only counterpoint from the school was that he was not authorized to speak for the school.   Otherwise, they do not comment on HR matters which is SOP for most large organizations that may face lawsuits.  From the information I saw from the teacher, it didn’t appear he was speaking for the school, but I suppose the legal system will sort that out.

The playbook they employ is getting old. Find the most heinous way to interpret criticism, particularly valid criticism, protect unequivocally racist speech.

 

Guy fired for criticizing hateful terrorist group, woman protected and amplified for racism and what they, themselves, deem "hate speech":

 

 

 

 

 

Hence the obvious lesson: never cave to the leftist mob, never apologize, never bend the knee.

[Ban Hammer 13,550]

4 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

The playbook they employ is getting old. Find the most heinous way to interpret criticism, particularly valid criticism, protect unequivocally racist speech.

 

Guy fired for criticizing hateful terrorist group, woman protected and amplified for racism and what they, themselves, deem "hate speech":

 

 

 

 

 

that last line  🤣🤣

[OriZ 3,157]

On 6/24/2020 at 5:25 PM, Burnt Reynolds said:

 

 

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/06/24/catholic-teacher-fired-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter-movement-conservatives-need-to-be-on-offense/

 

Another outrage firing, another lawsuit. Hope he's set for life for the attempt to have it ruined.

They can't handle the simple truth. I hope he wins big.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

On 6/24/2020 at 6:50 PM, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

If he had called all white people devils, he would be fine. I am a pretty woke old white guy, but I am starting to sense this isn't about equality

 

I was very sympathetic to the killing of the young man in Brunswick Ga and horrified at Floyd, but my mood has changed from sympathy and support to feeling like my race has had war declared on it .

 

There would have been no emancipation proclamation with out huge support from white people.

Ditto the civil rights movement and voting rights act.

Hard for me to remember, what with so many statues being demolished to hide the past, but weren't whites in the US the ONLY race to ever fight a war to end slavery?  Something about 600,000 dead rings a bell.