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Beyoncé scholar investigated for incendiary political statements has Twitter account restored

To get this out of the way right up front: yes, Twitchy is a conservative site, founded by a conservative and written for a mostly conservative audience. But now that the New York Times, Facebook, and Twitter are all trying to recalibrate following a presidential election that caught them all off guard, things are getting even messier than they were before.

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We’ve been tempted to write about Kevin Allred, Rutgers’ “Beyoncé Professor” before, but things just got serious after his post-election tweets landed him in serious trouble.

Yes, he’s a white man who teaches an American Studies course at Rutgers called, “Politicizing Beyoncé.” Yes, he looks like this:

Here’s another shocker: he’s a fan of Beyoncé, but not so much a fan of Donald Trump, or Donald Trump fans. That was made apparent in a tweet that didn’t sit well with the folks at Twitter in particular:

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That’s some true douchebaggery on display, but did it necessitate everything that followed? We’ll let Allred’s follow-up tweets speak for themselves for a bit. (Some have been omitted for space concerns.)

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And here we’d been told he was struggling just to put together a transition team.

https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks/status/798981257598074880

We’ll interject only to say that question shouldn’t be a rhetorical one; there are plenty of conservatives available to answer it, though probably not so many in a class on black feminism and progressive social change. Pro tip, though: Don’t buy whatever you might have seen in Katie Couric’s anti-gun “documentary.”

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https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/798752589860851712

The next day …

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Wow … that really isn’t a fair accusation to level at conservatives at all. The right-wing push for school choice is so that parents have a chance to free their children from indoctrination and pursue the education they deserve.

Again, Twitter is among many social media outlets in need of recalibration. Twitchy has compiled a number of explicit death threats over the years that have managed to escape consequences, while long-time and respected users like Instapundit, himself an educator, are finding themselves suspended and investigated.

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Now, now … the mainstream media’s speciality in its coverage of Trump was taking quotes out of context, like that time he lashed out at a baby during a rally or called veterans with PTSD “weak.”

Let’s make a deal; there’s no way in hell we’re going to sign up for a university-level course on progressive social change, with Beyoncé providing the soundtrack. But since we’ve heard Allred’s side of the story, we’d ask he to complete as a reading assignment this excellent analysis from Ken White.

White writes:

I think that the tweets should be protected, embedded as they are in a figurative expression of rage. But Allred’s an asshole. If I were one of his co-workers, or students, I would be a little worried about being around him, because I wouldn’t be sure that these are hyperbole. If I were his employer, I’d spend the whole day dealing with the fallout and trying to weigh risk and liability and the fears of other employees.

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Allred might not agree with the whole asshole part, but we’d guess he’s on board with this:

“Reasonable person” analysis tends to discredit threats from people like … Allred and credit threats from people who are offensively dark, poor, incarcerated, or unbalanced in a way that does not lead to tenure. That’s the way the system works. Sorry, no refunds.

Honestly: we might not all have studied at Rutgers, but we conservatives are generally reasonable people once you get to know us — that is, if you bother to get to know us.

Pump those brakes first, though.

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