{"id":120052,"date":"2023-10-20T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120052"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:34:19","slug":"predicting-censorship-from-new-gov-louisiana-professor-resigns-from-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120052","title":{"rendered":"Predicting Censorship from New Gov., Louisiana Professor Resigns from University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2023\/10\/why-robert-mann-quit-lsu.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2023\/10\/why-robert-mann-quit-lsu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slate<\/a>: &#8220;The morning after Louisiana GOP gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry claimed victory in a lopsided race where he avoided a runoff, tenured LSU professor Robert Mann knew he had to quit his job. He submitted his resignation to his dean and announced it on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,\u201d Mann&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTMannJr\/status\/1713613579142705572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Sunday in the four-post thread<\/a>&nbsp;on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cAnd I have no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor\u2019s efforts to punish me and other faculty members.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mann, 65, holds an endowed chair in LSU\u2019s journalism department and has worked at the school since 2006. But he\u2019d been pondering a move for a while, since his 2021 dust-up with Landry over COVID-19 vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Louisiana\u2019s attorney general, Landry had sent an aide to an LSU Faculty Senate meeting discussing vaccines, where she read a letter calling the mandates \u201cproblematic\u201d because they violated people\u2019s right to religious freedom. Mann followed up with a tweet, saying Landry had sent \u201csome flunkie \u2026 to read a letter attacking covid vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Landry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGJeffLandry\/status\/1468706900774731776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded immediately<\/a>, announcing a day later that he\u2019d contacted LSU president William F. Tate IV to personally request that Mann be punished. Landry tweeted: \u201cThis type of disrespect and dishonesty has no place in our society\u2014especially at our flagship university by a professor. I hope LSU takes appropriate action soon.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: &#8220;The morning after Louisiana GOP gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry claimed victory in a lopsided race where he avoided a runoff, tenured LSU professor Robert Mann knew he had to quit his job. He submitted his resignation to his dean and announced it on social media. \u201cMy reasons are simple: The person who will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120053,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120052\/revisions\/120053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}