HOW ‘MeToo’ Student Communists @UTexas-Austin Got a Respected Professor to Commit Suicide
The University of Texas-Austin pharmacology professor Richard A. Morrisett’s career, was destroyed by a single newspaper article. Before Morrisett killed himself, the 57-year-old tenured professor of pharmacology and toxicology was once a rising star. His research offered new insights into alcohol-related brain disorders and alcoholism – an arcane area of research among neuroscientists. But the Austin American-Statesman, wrote an article dredging up an ugly episode from Morrisett’s past – a domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend at the time. There were no serious injuries, and Morrisett took a plea deal: sentenced to four years of probation, ordered to receive counseling, take a class on avoiding family violence, and perform 100 hours of community service. “Morrisett had thought he was moving on with his life. He had accepted responsibility for his actions and, moreover, had put an apparently volatile and dysfunctional relationship behind him.” Then MeToo happened, and The Statesman conspired with the campus mob to destroy his life. Overnight, Morrisett became Public Enemy No. 1. The Statesman dug up Morrisett’s plea a year and a half later, noting the university had not sanctioned him. The administration said it found “no relation” between the incident with his girlfriend and “how he acted on campus,” so he continued teaching. Personnel records, evaluations, and correspondence between Morrisett and UT officials, obtained through an open-records records, paint a portrait of how the taxpayer-funded university surrendered to the Revolutionary Student Front mob, “Our goal is to make him feel unsafe on campus.” MeToo had gone from targeting “high-profile villains” to a private figure who was paying his debt to society, had no history of troubling reports on campus and received acclaim from his superiors, Paulin writes. The Statesman and other media outlets “enjoyed a symbiotic relationship” with the campus mob, covering every campus protest and egging them on: The university gave Morrisett an ultimatum. A month later he killed himself. The original autopsy said he “was last known alive at a disciplinary hearing regarding his employment due to a legal matter.” The student communists who threatened him crowed over his death. A tenured professor responded to Morrisett’s suicide, “I’m having an emotional reaction. He was a very close friend of mine, and I just want to make sure his memory is honored.”
americanthinker By David Paulin thecollegefix
