Fired: Deborah O'Conner was fired from Florida State University after going on a racist, homophic, anti-muslim tirade in public Facebook posts A Florida university is down one outspoken racist this week after business communications lecturer Deborah O'Conner resigned following a Facebook tirade that name-checked blacks, gays and 'filthy rodent Muslims.' O'Conner, who holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University and has taught there for 18 years, made the career ending series of remarks on a stranger's Facebook page. That stranger, New York-based stylist Colin Lively, became the subject of the teacher's ire when he--a friend of a friend of O'Conner's--wrote a post about Eric Holder's finding that Celevand police engage in excessive force.
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Business communications teacher Deborah O'Conner, Ph.D. resigned Saturday after the social media tirade
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O'Conner, who taught at the Tallahasee university for 18 years, unleashed her diatribe on a stranger who'd commented about police in Cleveland
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With her resignation O'Conner asked her dean if 'the story can be suppressed to minimize further injury to my reputation'
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