Jossart made it easy for the mob. For quite some time now, those who support the freedom of speech and the need to enunciate the truth no matter how offensive it may be to some have been ganged up on by “Islamophobia”-pushing, identity politics manipulators. Cancel culture is now so advanced that even many who know the truth have internalized the idea that it’s wrong to state it. They sometimes, as in this case, cancel themselves before they are actually cancelled or fired by their Leftist overlords. In contrast, note the unapologetic “protesters” during Al-Quds Day protests in Canada and Britain (as well as in other Western countries). Many speakers at these events incite violence against Jews and all Zionists, and promote hatred of Jews and the delegitimization of the Jewish state. But they are safe in today’s understanding of “diversity” and “tolerance.” Compare this with Chris Jossart’s “offense”:
Jossart called the Black Lives Matter movement “a disgrace” in response to an article about two Black, pro-life activists being arrested outside an abortion clinic. The same day, he commented, “Yes, get rid of the anti-American filth causing cancer to our nation,” on a post about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is a Muslim.
Jossart was not referring to Muslims or blacks as a whole as “filthy.” He was speaking in sharp language about the anti-Americanism of some among them. The response from FVTC President Susan May was to reiterate familiar talking points:
Our institution remains committed to a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion that offers opportunity for all students, employees, and our communities.
America is being destroyed from within, with far too little resistance.
“Fox Valley Technical College announces spokesman has resigned, days after his social media comments on Islam, Black Lives Matter surfaced,” by Samantha West, Appleton Post-Crescent, August 11, 2020:
GRAND CHUTE – Fox Valley Technical College’s longtime spokesman has resigned, days after social media posts critical of Black Lives Matter and warning of Islam infiltrating every nation came to light.
In a statement provided to The Post-Crescent on Tuesday, FVTC President Susan May said Chris Jossart, manager of media relations, resigned effective Monday and was “relieved of his duties immediately.”
“Our institution remains committed to a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion that offers opportunity for all students, employees, and our communities,” May wrote.
May declined an interview with The Post-Crescent on Tuesday, calling the incident a “personnel matter.”
Jossart, who had served as the college’s spokesman for nearly 15 years, declined to comment when contacted by a reporter Tuesday morning. He said his lawyer would release a statement later in the day.
The comments that led to Jossart’s resignation were posted on his public LinkedIn page over the last month. LinkedIn is a social media platform primarily used for employment connections and professional networking.
While FVTC “respects the free speech rights of its employees,” the college’s social media policy states they’re expected to exercise “good judgement and discretion” on social media, and warns that “conduct that would not be considered acceptable in the workplace is not acceptable online.”…
On Friday, Jossart called the Black Lives Matter movement “a disgrace” in response to an article about two Black, pro-life activists being arrested outside an abortion clinic. The same day, he commented, “Yes, get rid of the anti-American filth causing cancer to our nation,” on a post about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is a Muslim.
Responding to a LinkedIn post of an opinion article from The Jerusalem Post, Jossart on Thursday commented, “Islam is all over the world infiltrating every nation, and (Joe) Biden wants their beliefs in our already tainted public school curriculum.”…
Jossart’s posts caught the attention of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. On Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed Jossart’s resignation after it raised concerns about his “Islamophobic, anti-Black Lives Matter and other offensive comments online.”
“We welcome Mr. Jossart’s acknowledgement of the seriousness of his offensive comments, and we once again encourage him to engage with the Muslim community so that this troubling incident can be turned into an opportunity for growth and learning,” CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a Tuesday statement….
kunling says
Josart was 100% correct. The Black Lives Matter movement “a disgrace” and has NOTHING to do with black Americans, but with the destruction of the US. Yes, I agree with him, “get rid of the anti-American filth causing cancer to our nation,” Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. Our nation gave her family refuge and allowed her to become a citizen. It enabled her to become a member of Congress. How does she react to the nation’s benevolence? She calls for its destruction. Filth is too good a word to describe her. Excrement, dung, sewage, refuse, garbage, and trash would also be apropos.
Janet says
Thank goodness she can never run or become POTUS and there’s nothing CAIR can change or do about that even with their constant whining about Islamophobia.
old n slow says
Oh yes they can get her to run by changing the Constitution. Heck they do it all the time.
Chris says
The Muslim Brotherhood is Offended. Oh My. The wrong person got cancelled out here. The school is more worried about offending the Muslim Brotherhood than they are their own employee.
Janet says
Touché
spiro says
Once again Muslim special treatment
CAIR stated special opportunity for growth and learning
Growth of Islam and kifars learning to keep their mouth shut
Our rights are bring taken away and not much push back from what I see
Only accommodation and giving up freedom of speech
Mike says
when will the country wake up that it’s not Islamophobia
it’s the Muslim Brotherhood screaming it
the Muslim will take over if we let it
Muslim Brotherhood is an arm of Iran
If one hate a Muslim it’s Islamophobia
No mater how you dice it slice it it wall always be in the eye’s of Muslims as Islamophobia
This is how Islam’s plan to conquer the west is to SHAME you to except there hate of the west
If I dis-like my x-wife is this x-wifephobia
We need to grow up and just say if you think so then YES
It’s a phobia of being told who to like and except
will sorry for me it doesn’t work that way
I will most likely be band here and this take down
If it’s take down then this information they let us know is nothing more them allowing
the Islamophobia to flurish
call it out for what it is
a LIE
livingengine says
And, CAIR was there . . .
Here is the avuncular Ibrahim Hooper expressing his dismay that Jossart could be so divisive. After all, Hooper has a similar job, and he would never do such a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDoEIsGCiaw
Of course he and CAIR are divisive all the time. In fact, Jossart is only one of three different people CAIR has help pressure out of a job this month. The others being Tom Eckerle in Michigan, and a Parks & Rec employee in Georgetown, South Carolina.
But, for the best example of CAIR’s divisiveness, look to Minnesota as a warning against unrestrained CAIR activity.
CAIR was a leader in inciting the public. They never condemned the riots. And, when the violence subsided, they continued to be a leader in this affair even though they have nothing to do with George Floyd. In fact, CAIR’s response to Minnesota’s police reforms was to say on television that “Minnesota does not care about black lives”, and “Minnesota killed George Floyd”.
James Lincoln says
I must have missed something.
What did Chris Jossart post that was untrue?
Keith O says
James,
That’s the sad and scary part. It’s speaking the truth that can get you into trouble.
Many years ago, about 1999, when working security in a government office in Brisbane, I found a document that someone had dropped. Being a nosy bastard I read it. It was an internal memo with a warning about a “trend in behavior” that was ongoing.
It stated. “Multiculturalism is the tactic by which a vocal minority, who refuse to assimilate into Australian society, gain additional benefits and garner support from the government and media, by using the catch cry of RACISM as a weapon of fear, against anyone who speaks out against their agendas”.
It went on to warn department heads to “monitor” any statements before they were release to avoid any conflict with these groups.
No standing up to them, no telling the truth, just avoid saying anything that might offend.
And that was 21 years ago, just before my daughter was born.
WOW haven’t we made progress in that short amount of time?
gravenimage says
*Very* scary, Keith. I imagine there have been many more such memos, all over the West.
gravenimage says
Yes–as has been said before, the truth is no defense in these mad days.
mortimer says
For a mob, truth and facts are no defense.
Linde Barrera says
To Mortimer- I just got off the phone with a main office employee of Fox Valley Technical College. I voiced a polite and respectful comment about how Chris Jossart’s comments were not wrong because we have freedom of speech in America. I also asked if it were possible that Dr. Susan May, President of Fox Valley Technical College might have taken money from CAIR. The employee said “President May is so not like that.”
Here is their number to make a polite and respectful comment: 1-800-735-3882.
Free Speech Forever. I hope Chris Jossart gets reinstated.
GreekEmpress says
Thanks for the number, Linda.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Linde!
No Muzzies Here says
Those who speak essential truths are being suppressed. This is extremely troubling, but most Americans and most “free” people don’t know, and if they knew wouldn’t care.
US infidel says
Seems mudslimes get real butthurt when the truth is pointed out. Maybe its caused by to much head banging or from not having a clean turban .
tim gallagher says
He is a brave man and he is spot on with his comments. I wonder if he will be able go on to get a decent job in the future. He is a fairly young man from his appearance in the photo and it really does take plenty of courage to speak up (putting your career on the line) and tell the truth against the thugs of the politically correct, leftie fascist movements around these days. I hope things turn out well for him. It is Friday morning here in Australia and I heard on the radio that the pop musician, Nick Cave, not someone I know about at all, has come out and criticised this “Cancel Culture” as an intolerant, humourless new religion. I think that Cave is part of the leftie type crowd, so I thought that maybe some of the less loonie lefties might finally start to say, “enough of this crap”. Maybe this fascistic cancel culture has gone way too far and a backlash might finally set in. I heard a while back that Ricky Gervais, the comedian, had ripped into this cancel culture and its efforts to shut down any comment that doesn’t fit in with its nonsense view of life.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher,
Find post, my compliments.
“Cancel Culture” will end only when enough Leftists themselves get canceled.
It has not yet reached critical mass…
tim gallagher says
Thanks, James. I had been thinking for a while that possibly some of the less extreme left wing types might begin to think that this cancel culture had gone too far. That’s the reason why I mentioned hearing a radio presenter on talkback radio comment on Nick Cave. I know only that Cave is an Australian (at least I think he is) who has had a pretty successful career (mainly in the UK I think). The radio presenter said that Cave was something to do with Gothic type circles, so I would have thought pretty left wing in outlook. I thought, well, there you go, maybe he is a left wing type who has decided that this destructive, totally intolerant garbage has gone too far. Speaking up might well cost Cave some fans, so I suppose it takes a bit of courage. As someone who thinks very highly of our western way of life, I find this destroying statues and trying to destroy our whole western heritage sickening. I can’t relate to the outlook of these anarchist types at all. I’m probably not very tolerant myself and, if I had any power, I’d probably come down on them like a ton of bricks. I just can’t cop these people or their outlook. I’m sure you are right in saying that this lunacy still has a long way to run.
gravenimage says
Wisconsin: College’s longtime spokesman resigns over comments about Islam, Black Lives Matter, Ilhan Omar
……………..
Chrs Jossart was right.
GreekEmpress says
I wonder if Mr. Jossart really resigned or if he was forced out by the threat of CAIR litigation. The article said a statement would be released later by his attorney, so he evidently had to retain legal counsel.
truthout says
You know how to end this .Every one needs to not be afraid .Speak the truth .Eventually all the business and education centers that kowtow would go right out of business .Lets see no business or students and not workers .Well buddy it looks like the bankruptcy court for you .If not bankruptcy then it will close them eventually .We won’t get anywhere with boot lickers and behind kissers .It seems we have a dirth of them .Its truly revolting
gravenimage says
Hear, hear! Many are not so brave, though.
underbed cat says
It seems to be true madness…..when education turns away from reality, where printed doctrine so unreasonable/ dangerous and deceptive is denied and free speech a historic constitutional right is denied and analysis becomes hate speech. Diversity became a goal, but the reasonable act to discriminate or make choices of value regarding written and historical information to see if it is safe, or to even suggest there is a problem at the risk of a dismissal or hostilities and in some countries loss of life seems to be insanity. Someday these “crimes of prosecution” for incitining their revenge violence , will reach a diligent supreme court hopefully very soon. If Hitlers Mien Kauf had not been rejected…where would Europe be today.This just seems to be act 2. The only difference was Hilter spoke openly about his goal and no one could believe what he was doing…..denial and fear of retribution weakened the resistance while witnessing the inhumanity. Today the inhumanity is nearly just as bad but the laws of sharia and the strategic planning and constant denial , the language barrier worked to safeguard, along with a structured contradiction of victimhood, restriction of speech and attacking or embedding in national security has made the new nightmare on the horizon. This time it is hard for the media and new corp to allow the truth to be filmed as the money influence and fibs were the fixers and the word racist didn’t decribe skin but truth fabricated and organizations and laws to insist.
infidel says
I commend the brave hero Jossart for speaking the truth. Yes .. the cancerous filth is indeed eating the great American nation from the inside… Love = all the way from India and I know where he comes from. U are not a racist IMO. Do not back down and keep on.
E T says
Conservatives in Canada who have not mailed in their choice for the leader of the party should know Derek Sloan has stated he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood hoods a terrorist group. He gives me hope.
gravenimage says
+1
E T says
Courage is required in order to save the West from Islam, Antifa / Black Lives Matter mongrels.
No border, No wall, No USA at all, the communist revolutionaries have been working at a mad pace to OVERTHROW the USA. I think of them as the three stooges groups, morphing into one world order. A ticking time bomb.
How many German people claimed they knew nothing about Hitler’s evil?
arnoldfishman says
absolutely. we have an ruling class that are in general cowards in regards to them doing what is required of them and what we are paying them to do–ie. maintain the constitution, maintain commerce and defend the rights of American citizens. greed and power rule the day. we are in dire need to reinstitute convictions for treason and sedition. However i must say that the founders messed up in not overtly declaring that this nation was birthed as a Christian nation, founded on the principles and edicts of the bible that bring forth liberty and abundance. unfortunately due to their not having a longer vision, our American leaders have allowed many foreign gods into the country which demand equality to be worshipped and will eventually forcefully demand both Christians and Jews to bow down to godless laws and if we dont, to be relegated as 2nd class citizens or worse.
mortimer says
Chris Jossart is yet another martyr in the battle for the freedom of expression. Nonetheless, neo-Marxist censore-ism is no match for our traditional values of family, faith and freedom.
Francis Weber says
Will the MSM ask CAIR if it cares for all black lives especially the black African Christians being butchered in the name of Islam in Nigeria and the DRC?
J Morgan says
Today more Christians butchered by Islamists, this time in Cameroon.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/08/cameroon-muslims-target-catholic-mission-murder-28-including-7-children-ages-3-to-18
gravenimage says
Terrible–and yes, BLM is silent.