Specifically, here's the tweet from Professor Storey:
"I dont believe in instant karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesnt care about them."
Then a follow-up:
"Good people need to do more to stop the evil their state pushes." He continued: "I'm only blaming those who support the GOP there."
Not exactly what the conservative propaganda websites claim that he said, but they're not interested in truth, they're just interested in using things like this to push their agenda. And his statement would probably not have gone anywhere had it not been for the holy horror put up by conservatives in this case, based on false and misleading statements made by conservative media. The University of Tampa is a private university, about 8,000 students enrolled in mostly business-related majors and minors. The conservative media sites marshalled their supporters to inundate the University with calls, posing as parents, threatening to withdraw students or not send them, demanding he be fired. Conservatives consider freedom of speech as a constitutional right until someone--anyone--says something they don't like about Donald Trump, then they excoriate the professor and demand he be fired.
Professor Storey was apparently pretty gracious with the university. He wasn't fired, he was asked for his resignation in the face of a libelous assault on his character by some loony-tunes, dumb-as-gourd Trump supporters, and he agreed. No details are offered of that particular agreement, but I'm guessing there was a check attached to it with an amount similar to what they'd have to pay both he and his attorney if he sued. Perhaps he's considering a very justifiable libel suit against the conservative websites that attacked him falsely and distorted his words. It would probably be easy to guess that one or two of the university's prominent, large donors got upset and put pressure on the school to terminate him, since he was only adjunct, but even though that's an unknown, this isn't an attack on free speech by "academia," code word for "the left." This was a right wing conspiracy, through and through.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/ ... te/2335504