New Year, Same Problem
Another year, another semester. If there is anything that the Virginia Tech administration and their employee Mark Neuhoff would want anyone to do it’s to forget the hard work of student and community antifascists who stood up and exposed the antisemitism, racism and violence hiding within the safety of their classrooms. Despite Mark’s blatant hatred for anything other than his delusional self, he is still employed by Virginia Tech; however, he has stepped out of the classroom and instead, is writing a class on free S\speech. That’s right folks. Virginia Tech and Dr. Hausemann (English Dept. Chair) believe the best thing to do with a bigot is to let them design classes on inclusivity. Given Mark’s opinion (posted below) that the “Truth is Antisemitic” we have to wonder what truth, if any, is behind his final graduate project?
Mark for some reason can’t understand that most good, decent, honest people are antifascist, antiracist, and don’t want him or his wife in their university (she’s now banned) or in their community. So after having taken a short leave of absence for fear of the continued tracking of his facebook posts, Mark’s friends have once again leaked facebook posts that show he still harbors all the same hatred, conspiracy, and vitriol of past pseudo-intellectual ramblings, plus a much more outright propensity to violence towards progressives, women, and the people around him.
How Virginia Tech can continue to employ this anti-semite, let alone allow him to work on creating classes around free speech, when clearly he has no understanding of the difference between hate speech and free speech, is beyond us. As a leading higher education institution Virginia Tech appears to completely fail at protecting its students and the viability of actual intellectual discourse, instead choosing to sell its student body out, while Mark continues to discuss joining right wing death squads, lynching previous employers, and the same jewish conspiracy celebrated by the most violent individuals in history.
We are truly worried about the safety of those individuals in which Mark has to share a space. These threats are no joking matter given that last year white supremacists and far-right identified individuals killed more Americans than any other group in 2017. Mark shows all the signs of being among the worst the far-right has to offer. It doesn’t matter if he calls himself a paleoconservative, monarchist, or traditionalist, because when the ideology is laid bare, it is all the same. Violent, evil, hate speech.
Given Virginia Tech’s infamous history with male violence, we cannot fathom that free speech is behind allowing Mark to continue to receive free tuition and a paycheck at the expense of donors, other students, and the state. How can anyone justify the murderous ramblings of butchering perceived enemies and reducing women’s “value” to nothing as free speech? Not only does Mark need to be fired for persistent threatening, he needs to get out of our community! We need to make sure that he knows that his ideology is not welcome here in the New River Valley.
Help us drive nazi Mark Neuhoff out of our community!
We need your help! The Virginia Tech administration has refused to make the campus a safe and welcoming environment for students and faculty who are POC, queer, jewish, women, and are disgusted by a fascist presence. Mark Daniel Neuhoff has remained an employee of Virginia Tech despite the administration being notified of his violent ideological beliefs, which inherently pose a threat to the community. We are asking you to call and email the administration to demand they fire Neuhoff. Tell them no nazis in our community!
Timothy Sands (University President)
(540) 231-6231
president@vt.edu
Karen DePauw (Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education)
231-7581
kpdepauw@vt.edu
Bernice Hausman (English Department Chair)
540-231-8466
bhausman@vt.edu
Fascist Threat in the NRV: Profile on Mark Neuhoff
(editor’s note: the screencaps with further proof of Mark Neuhoff and his social media accounts expressing his fascist ideas are posted below the text.)
For the past year fascist agitation has been occurring around Virginia Tech. This has included swastika fliers dumped in front of the student Jewish center and posting propaganda of a white supremacist organization known as Identity Europa around campus. There is a fascist threat in our community and they are situated in Virginia Tech and their name is Mark Daniel Neuhoff.
The university has known of this person’s politics for some time yet has done nothing. Virginia Tech professes specific principles they wish to shape their community. One such principle reads, “We reject all forms of prejudice and discrimination, including those based on age, color, disability, gender, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, and veteran status.” Yet Virginia Tech currently employs Neuhoff, a white supremacist teaching assistant in the English Department.
Mark Daniel Neuhoff is a person who violates every aspect of Virginia Tech’s principles, and does so on full display through social media. Who is Mark talking to? Well his 1,830 facebook friends. This list is composed of members of the Alt-Right and White Nationalists from around the globe. He is posting his hatred, disguised as speech to members of White Live Matter, Vanguard America, Traditional Workers Party, Neo-Nazis, and European Far-Right extremists. As a teaching assistant, Mark presides over the academic, emotional, and physical well-being of individuals he chooses to dehumanize and delegitimize through his social media platforms. Students and co-workers are at risk from Mark. They are at risk of being exploited for white nationalist propaganda or oppressed academically simply based on their religion or race. Their physical well-being is at threat, as Mark has brought attention to multiple students attempting to speak out against his hate by posting their images and names to the notorious message board /pol/ on the 4chan website.
Mark’s department faculty and leaders as well as Virginia Tech’s Dean of Students, multiple Vice-Presidents, and even President Sands have been notified of Mark’s dangerous rhetoric. They have also been provided ample evidence of his writings. By failing to take action, Virginia Tech simply amplifies the hatred and danger, empowering Mark and placing his students at an even greater risk of emboldened actions. Virginia Tech fails in both their service to their principles, as well as in living up to their service motto. When a Hokie says, Ut Prosum (That I May Serve), it very well may be that the service is solely dedicated to anti-semitism, racism, and white supremacy. The university bureaucrats only care about the university’s legal liability, we can’t rely on them to solve the fascist threat in our community. We must make it known fascism is not welcome here.
