Liberal Journalists Refuse to Believe Teacher Was Fired for Saying ‘Trump Is Our President’

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Liberal journalists seemed unwilling to believe reports a Michigan teacher had been fired for saying “Trump is our president” and characterized conservatives as “gullible.”

The story: Justin Kucera, 28, said Oakland County School officials brought him into a meeting on July 10 and demanded that he resign or be fired from his positions as a social studies teacher and varsity baseball coach at Walled Lake Western High School, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Tuesday.

  • Kucera was pushed out after he tweeted vaguely pro-Trump sentiments, including, “I’m done being silent. @realDonaldTrump is our president … Don’t @ me,” and retweeted Trump’s declaration, “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”
  • The Oakland County School District declined to comment on the specifics of Kucera’s dismissal, but said “no disciplinary action was taken as a result of any support of President Trump,” The Detroit News reported.
  • Other Walled Lake teachers have not faced disciplinary action for making political statements, including calling Trump a “sociopath” and “narcissist,” according to the Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon

The reaction: Joshua Holland, a contributor to The Nation, responded to the Free Beacon’s report by averring that even though he hadn’t read the story about Kucera, “I can say for sure that this obviously didn’t happen.”

“I’m always amazed by how gullible right-wingers are,” Holland added.

Parker Molloy, a transgender rights activist and editor at large for Media Matters for America, weighed in by unearthing a supposedly damning tweet Kucera had posted on July 6.

Molloy said the tweet, in which Kucera declared “Liberals suck man,” was “clearly the one that got him in trouble.”

Noam Blum, an editor at Tablet Magazine, mocked Molloy and Holland’s skepticism, suggesting it was another example of progressives denying the existence of “cancel culture.”

Who’s gullible? Whatever the precise motives behind Kucera’s firing, liberals would be hard-pressed to prove their “side” is uniquely immune to confirmation bias.

Recent examples of left-leaning journalists and commentators mistaking stereotypes about the right for reality include:

Holland, for his part, has downplayed the political significance of the Smollett story.

Kucera, whose tweets were no longer publicly visible, did not immediately respond to an interview request.

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