Former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who resigned amid controversy found dead...

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Former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who resigned amid controversy found dead in his home

Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter, was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office.

Adams was found dead and alone in his home during a welfare check at about 2 p.m., Jerry Brewer, a public information officer with the sheriff's department, told CNN. The investigation into his death is ongoing, Brewer said.

Adams' death comes less than a month after the university announced that he would retire following campus uproar over his tweets.
Adams, a former professor of criminology at UNCW, and author of "Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts 'Womyn' on Campus," was set to retire August 1, Chancellor Jose V. Sartarelli said in a statement posted on the university's website.

[spooky3]

1. According to CNN and other sources, he had made

Racist and homophobic comments also.

He saw the covid restrictions as “oppressive.”

Great guy.

[FM123]

2. While I feel bad for his family that he died, this teacher was not a very nice guy

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 a slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go.” He was referring to Gov. Roy Cooper's measures put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus. “Massa” is a dialect term that is often used in a mocking way to mimic what users imagine was the pronunciation that enslaved people used for “master.”

"When I tell covid 19 jokes people seem to get them right off the bat," Adams had tweeted earlier in the month.

After protesters took to the streets following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, Adams shared: "Rioters don’t care about social issues. They are thugs looking for an opportunity to break the law with impunity."

And another May tweet from Adams read: "Don't shut down the universities. Shut down the non essential majors. Like Women's Studies."

As more people began to publicly criticize Adams, he responded: "When you write the university asking them to fire me don’t forget to leave a mailing address so I can send you a box of panty liners."


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-north-carolina-wilmington-professor-behind-vile-racist-sexist-tweets-n1232511

[essme]

3. The guy was a jerk

We are in NC; and I know someone that knows him personally.

Lots of people down here are trying to be PC about his death (don't say anything bad!) but, I will. He was a jerk of epic proportions that was trying to get himself fired--- with a golden umbrella.

I have no idea why he died- I don't. But, he was coming to a crappy end with his foot on the accelerator.

[dalton99a]

4. Good riddance to a sadistic, racist asshole

[Midnight Writer]

5. Covid? Sounds like he was challenging the virus.

[blogslut]

6. Here's a link

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/us/mike-adams-dead-university-of-north-carolina-wilmington-tweets/index.html