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Canned for ‘refusal or inability to perform assigned duties,’ ‘repeated discourtesy,’ and use of ‘vulgar, profane, or abusive language toward a student’
A psychology professor at Coastal Carolina Community College has been fired after being “secretly” recorded calling Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA “racist piece[s] of sh*t.”
According to WITN, Chris Schulte told his class “Did he [Kirk] deserve to die? No, but he was a racist piece of sh*t, and Turning Point USA is a racist piece of sh*t organization, and I will say it, and they just started a group on this campus.”
In the recording posted by TPUSA on X, Schulte added “It is unfortunate that it has come to this. It is, in my opinion, fascism. It is, in my opinion, a dictator trying to take over a country that is a democracy.”
Schulte, who’s a candidate for North Carolina’s 15th House District, also criticized the alleged hypocrisy of the U.S. being all about “freedom of everything,” but the “whole stupid Charlie Kirk thing” ended up getting people fired for not “liking” him.
LEAKED AUDIO: “Did he deserve to die? No. But he was a racist piece of sh*t. And Turning Point USA is a racist piece of sh*t organization,” says Coastal Carolina Community College psychology professor Christopher Schulte while warning students about the rise of “fascism” in… pic.twitter.com/VFXN4CrWGV
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) February 18, 2026
“Isn’t that why professors got fired for saying [Kirk] was a racist piece of sh*t? Which he was?” Schulte asked.
Schulte went on to complain that TPUSA just started a chapter at the school, and that it had members “coming into […] classrooms and recording us trying to get us fired because they don’t agree with us.”
The professor ended by proclaiming “This is the end of democracy that you’re seeing firsthand.”
WITN reported on Feb. 20 that Coastal Carolina CC President David Heatherly announced Schulte had been removed from his $79,128-per-year position.
Heatherly’s letter cited Schulte’s alleged “refusal or inability to perform assigned duties,” “repeated discourtesy,” use of “vulgar, profane, or abusive language toward a student,” and “failure to follow policies and procedures.”
In a statement following his dismissal, Schulte said
Today, campus security had to escort me to my car because threats were made against me at my workplace after I spoke out for academic freedom and called out racism and censorship where I saw it. I spoke passionately on that topic because I care deeply about this country and I’m concerned about protecting constitutional freedoms, especially the First Amendment, that defines it. Today’s events only reinforced why those protections matter. In an attempt to bring awareness to the censorship of faculty happening at UNC-Chapel Hill with secret recordings, I was secretly recorded by a student. It is a sad statement about our country right now that my comments would elicit threats not just on my career, but also my life.
According to a 2020 Daily News candidate profile, Schulte said he has “empathy for all people” as he “interact[s] with the wide range of people […] everyday” and “see[s] their struggles up close and personal.”
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