Mike Adams Dead: Pro Life Activist & Political Columnist Dies at 55

[Dennis Donovan]

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/mike-adams-dead/



Mike Adams, the former professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and pro-life writer, has died at the age of 55. Adams was found dead inside of his home in the Bayshore area of New Hanover County in North Carolina. Adams was formerly the Professor of the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Adams’ cause of death has not been made public.

Adams’ death was confirmed by the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, via WECT News. Adams lived in the 300 block of Windsong Road. Authorities were called to Adams’ home on July 23 to perform a wellness check.

According to Adams’ Twitter profile, he was also a columnist at The Daily Wire and Town Hall.

In June 2020, the University of North Carolina Wilmington announced that Adams was to retire on August 1. Adams’ Facebook posts had attracted the ire of the school’s students and staff. On May 29, Adams tweeted, “This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go!” WECT reported at the time, “Many saw the use of the racially insensitive slave master term as offensive and demanded that he be fired by the university.”

Actress Sophia Bush tweeted about Adams’ words saying, “Ummm. @UNCWilmington. How do you employ this person?!? The racism and misogyny are atrocious. This feels like another change for Wilmington that the #OTHfam could make some noise about.” Bush starred in the show One Tree Hill, which was filmed in Wilmington.

On July 2, Port City Daily reported that the University of North Carolina Wilmington agreed to pay $500,000 in a settlement. As a result of the settlement, Adams agreed to retire from the school.

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[donkeypoofed]

1. A troubled man who killed himself. That's sad end.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Ahistorical and astonished by the commonplace

My dad was a well-versed amateur historian who looked down on sociologists. One of his favorite comments about them was that they were “constantly astonished by the commonplace.”

People inside and outside of academe publically agitating against face masks should go look at the photos of people wearing them during the Spanish Flu epidemic from 1918-1920. Medicine may have advanced since then, but it’s clear that we Americans haven’t proved ourselves much smarter than our ancestors.