Epectitus wrote:
TerribleTom wrote:
Since when is a graduate assistant a "professor"? Assuming the same careful attention to detail, this "senior elections clerk" was probably more like a temporary assistant mailroom sorter or maybe a pamphlet passer-outer.
They've changed in now to "instructor."

Even that is incorrect and misleading. "Graduate Teaching Assistant" would be the correct title, and it may refer to no more than his assisting a member of the faculty in taking roll, proctoring exams, and grading exams or papers under supervision.
Edit: In fact, most universities do not permit a student to have sole responsibility for teaching a class until the student has earned an M.A. or M.S. in the field in which the student would be teaching.
I am quite confident that Western Kentucky is not going to fire this character because of the political views that he has expressed outside his job as a TA, unless he also violated a law. Being a member of Stormfront is not illegal. If he were fired because of his political lunacy, WKU could find itself on the AAUP blacklist. However, it is not OK for a teacher to say just anything in her classroom. A chemist should not opine about the crimes of George W. Bush, for example. That might be cause for a reprimand. If this guy said or did something threatening to students, that would be an entirely different matter, and it sounds like he might be the kind of person to do that. If he has used his Stormfront rantings in the classroom, that would likely fall under hate speech -- which is a disciplinary problem on campuses even if it is perfectly OK in the external world.
Incidentally, he is dead wrong about what Hawaiian civilization and other "primitive" civilizations have accomplished. For example, from the Aztecs on down to the tip of South America, the people knew about the wheel. They used it in children's toys. Their problem was that they had only humans to pull wagons. The only possible beast of burden was the llama, which is quite difficult to domesticate for labor. Think of a camel with a gentle face and a really vile temper. Sometimes llamas did carry packs on their backs, but I know of no record of their having pulled a wagon. Forget what we know as the buffalo, the American bison. It would definitely not have served as a beast of burden. The horse, mule, donkey, water buffalo, camel, ox, cow, etc. were all brought over from the Fertile Crescent via Europe.
His views about other civilizations are pretty typical of racists. They are also pretty typically wrong.