There has been an incident at a Catholic high school (The Academy of the Holy Cross, for girls) in Kensington, MD where a substitute teacher, Gregory Conte, was fired after he
was doxed, outing him as a associated with the National Policy Institute, under
the alias of Gregory Ritter. The group
is supposedly associated with the “alt-right”.
The lead story on WJLA7 in Washington in here.
Conte was not fired over social media or other self-published
postings. And the school is a private Catholic
school, not a public school. Nevertheless, the story is a disturbing reminder
of an incident in 2005 that happened with me (see July 27, 2007 post).
Conte's behavior would not have violated my own idea of "conflict of interest" as I have discussed it before because he did not have real permanent authority over students, to grade them. His use of a pseudonym is also irrelevant; he has only one "identity". I have a nickname ("Bill" for "John William"); his was a language translation, still pretty obvious.
I did find this Wordpress blog posting with a simple Google search, and what it claims is rather disturbing. But the post would appear to come from sources related to Antifa. However, if a blog post like this was what doxed the teacher and led to his firing, that alone is disturbing, too.
Conte's behavior would not have violated my own idea of "conflict of interest" as I have discussed it before because he did not have real permanent authority over students, to grade them. His use of a pseudonym is also irrelevant; he has only one "identity". I have a nickname ("Bill" for "John William"); his was a language translation, still pretty obvious.
I did find this Wordpress blog posting with a simple Google search, and what it claims is rather disturbing. But the post would appear to come from sources related to Antifa. However, if a blog post like this was what doxed the teacher and led to his firing, that alone is disturbing, too.
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