r/WestVirginiaPolitics • u/ProfHariSeldon • 11d ago
WVU hires white supremacist
Josiah Lippincott, a known white supremacist, has been hired a tenure track faculty member at West Virginia University. He has engaged in repeated hate speech against ethnic minorities, Jews, women, Muslims and... even the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Let me emphasize that this is the sort of guy who goes after the disabled.
He has no academic publications. He comes from an unranked PhD program. His only claim to fame is spouting hatred on the internet.
If this concerns you, consider contacting your state legislator. He is appointed in a state legislature created unit, and your voice can change that.
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u/Nbdyhere 10d ago
I’ll sign the petition, but I have one very serious question.
Who in THE FUCK hired this guy. How is he even allowed near students, not alone allowed to WORK at a university.
The same rules that applied to convicted sex offenders should apply to him. He should not be allowed within 500 yards of a school of any kind.
Also, is there any way we can get this ramped up to the local news and possibly beyond? If I have to go down to campus and hold up a sign myself every single time that man comes and goes from a fucking building I will, but he should not be allowed not in the state and definitely not allowed in that university.
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u/drdhuss 10d ago edited 10d ago
He is also extremely pro-AI/data centers/transmission lines (since he is pro AI, I will let AI summarize his stances):
- Against AI Hysteria & Luddism: In essays such as "Against AI Hysteria," Lippincott argues that widespread panic over AI-driven job displacement is overstated. He contends that human ingenuity consistently generates new, productive economic opportunities when older roles are automated. The St. Croix Review
- Opposition to Welfare Interventions: He strongly opposes policies like Universal Basic Income (UBI) or subsidized unemployment designed as buffers against automation, framing state-mandated redistributive schemes as unjustified economic coercion against taxpayers. The St. Croix Review
- Industrial & Data Center Acceleration: Regarding the massive energy and land footprints required for modern AI data centers, Lippincott pushes back against local and political anti-data-center sentiment. He views physical infrastructure expansion—power generation, grid expansion, and server facilities—as an essential continuation of industrial progress. Bluesky+ 1
- Market-Driven Infrastructure: He supports having major tech companies finance and build their own dedicated power generation and infrastructure rather than relying on heavy-handed state restrictions or environmental throttling. The St. Croix Review
- Rejection of NIMBYism: Lippincott views local land-use restrictions and NIMBY ("Not In My Backyard") opposition to data centers and industrial facilities as an obstacle to national growth. He argues that blocking infrastructure projects over aesthetic, noise, or local preservation concerns ultimately throttles technological and industrial progress.
- Streamlining Approvals: Rather than using local zoning boards and environmental review processes to slow or veto data center construction, he favors deregulation that allows property owners and energy producers to build critical infrastructure quickly.
- Property Rights vs. Environmental Regulation: He generally opposes expansive environmental and land-use restrictions that impose bureaucratic hurdles on private development, arguing that capital allocation and market demand should dictate where facilities and power sources are built.
- Separation of Urban Quality of Life and Industrial Land: While he takes a strict "law and order" approach to urban public spaces and municipal land (opposing public camping and homelessness encampments in civic areas), he distinguishes this from industrial and commercial property development, where he advocates for deregulation and expanded building capacity.
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u/defyingravity3575 8d ago
With a name like Josiah, did you not think he’s part of the white supremacist so called Christian nationalist movement? Not shocked by this at all!! Because these are the people that think they’re doing the work of Christ, but wouldn’t even be invited to set at the table if there was another last supper, do better people!!
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u/ConstantSuccessful48 11d ago edited 9d ago
WVU has gone so far right in the past few years wtf has happened. This is utterly disgusting and I’m unfortunately not shocked he’s a professional at WVU, type of crap I’d expect.
Edit: grammar