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Jim Chaney

Jim Chaney

American coach

Jun 25, 2026

44:05
Before you know it, it's powerful elected representatives who are lobbying leaders at Clemson University.
44:11
That's exactly right.
44:12
And so the Clemson College Republicans post and their tagging of libs of TikTok is really what ignited this social media firestorm that was directed at Dr. Brekke, as well as one other Clemson professor, and then really at Clemson itself.
44:30
And so you see some posts like, give me a second, I can pull them up.
44:36
So you see folks like Representative Thomas Beach, who's there in the Pickens area, reposting the Clemson College Republicans post and saying, quote, another leftist indoctrinator has been identified in the Clemson faculty.
44:50
This is whose salary your dollars are paying for.
44:53
We can do better.
48:25
And what does this do? Again, it goes back to what we were talking at the very beginning, Mark, where it's not just the individual – who has spoken up or spoken out or has posted something online, but it creates this chilling effect throughout the university and throughout other places where people are afraid to speak out, right? People are afraid to speak out against Trump, against the Trump administration, against other issues because they think, well, I might be next.
42:59
Before you know it, it's powerful elected representatives who are lobbying leaders at Clemson University.
43:04
That's exactly right.
43:06
And so the Clemson College Republicans post and their tagging of libs of TikTok is really what ignited this social media firestorm that was directed at Dr. Brekke, as well as one other Clemson professor, and then really at Clemson itself.
43:24
And so you see some posts like, give me a second, I can pull them up.
43:29
So you see folks like Representative Thomas Beach, who's there in the Pickens area, reposting the Clemson College Republicans post and saying, quote, another leftist indoctrinator has been identified in the Clemson faculty.
43:44
This is whose salary your dollars are paying for.
43:46
We can do better.
47:24
who has spoken up or spoken out or has posted something online, but it creates this chilling effect throughout the university and throughout other places where people are afraid to speak out, right? People are afraid to speak out against Trump, against the Trump administration, against other issues because they think, well, I might be next.

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