Prof. Susan Douglas, University of Michigan
A University of Michigan professor already known for her partisan views confirmed the suspicions of students when she penned a column for a non-profit magazine titled, "It's okay to hate Republicans."
The Ann Arbor News reported Thursday that Susan Douglas, the communications department chair at the school, itemized the "recent phenomenon" of her hatred.
She reportedly dislikes "the ceaseless denigration of President Obama," "Clinton smear campaigns" and Rush Limbaugh's "hate speech."
In These Times, the magazine that published the column, removed the online post Thursday morning but told FoxNews.com that it planned on re-posting the column.
The Detroit News quoted the first paragraph, in which Douglas wrote, "I can't stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal 'personhood.'"
The column was criticized by student organizations and Republican leaders in the state.
Bobby Schostak, the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, called the piece "ugly and full of hatred" and called for her resignation.
"Not only does she further perpetuate the political discord in our nation today, but she's completely out-of-touch and focusing on a life of politics she apparently left decades ago," he told The Detroit News.
Douglas mentioned in the piece that she worked for a Republican senate minority leader, Fred Lippitt, in the '70s and "loved him."
But she called him a brand of Republican now extinct (fiscally conservative but progressive on social matters).
The university posted on Twitter that faculty members are free to express themselves and the school offers a place for diversity in opinion.
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