JMU Makes Fox News Again: Student Posts Highly Politicized Falsehoods About Rittenhouse Verdict On University Instagram Account

JMU has become a comedy of errors. This is (a) par for the course and (b) a drop in the bucket. My immediate reaction is something like: the student has no idea what he's talking about...but that's no surprise. The media has fed him lies, as has "social media"...as, almost certainly, has his university. He made a mistake. This tells the university that it might be good to make information about institutional neutrality available to students...but...it's a lot more important for the university itself to regain its institutional neutrality. IMO that was abandoned years ago. The main error lies with the institution. Again, the side in this dispute with which I sympathize is the liberal, reasonable, and forgiving side. Mistakes were made. Unlike the other side, we don't wield people's mistakes against them with a mind to destroying them. But there's a big, ongoing problem here--an institutional problem that becomes less and less forgivable by the day. There's been plenty of warning and this is another one. If the university doesn't address and correct its politicization, I think that the Commonwealth would be warranted in considering options like reducing or cutting state funding. Which would, of course, be the end of the university.