Who.

Whom.

Hank Smith, BYU Professor: speaks truth about Connor “Calvin Burke” Meyers: Bad.

“Kelli” Potter, @UVU Professor: doxxes student, praises burning churches, supports genocide, calls for violence against missionaries and imprisonment of LDS leaders: Good.

#DezNat time

To begin: who is “Kelli” Potter? Potter is a self-described “Communist, trans, queer philosopher” on the Philosophy faculty at @UVU.

Potter takes the “Communist” label quite seriously, as you can see.

Potter has bragged about infiltrations of right wing groups using fake profiles on Facebook.

While all posts used in this thread will strictly be public, suffice it to say that Potter’s own OpSec is... lacking.

And when a student said something that Potter disagreed with in a private Facebook, there wasn’t any hesitation on Potter’s part to flagrantly breach FERPA and Dox that student, including the student’s family wedding photo.

(Student’s info redacted here for obvious reasons.)

Potter is very active with Utah County socialist revolutionary LARPing community—and was present when two of Potter’s comrades and Facebook friends, committed attempted murder by shooting into an occupied car on June 29, 2020.

There’s no direct indication that Potter has been present for the burning of any Latter-day Saint meetinghouses.

But it’s absolutely crystal clear that Potter supports such actions.

Quite publicly. And proudly.

(And plenty of UVU-affiliated folks liked that post)

Of course, Potter doesn’t stop at burning buildings. Potter’s ambitions range from vague threats and twisted logic...

To much more direct calls for action.

(Potter even indulges in occasional Bowie knife memes)

Not to mention actively fantasizing about bringing to Utah—and, more specifically, to the Latter-day Saints—a practice like the ongoing mass imprisonment, indoctrination, slave labor, and forced sterilization used on the Uighurs in China.

It would be better for Potter, you see.

In fact, carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party is one of Potter’s favorite pastimes. (A *very* small sampling)

(As an aside, note that Potter did not actually complete a Ph.D in philosophy, holding only a Master’s. I’m sure that those scandalized by Smith’s lack of credentials will no doubt be deeply concerned about Potter’s shortcomings.)

So, what has the response been from the “Mormon Studies” community?

Shock? Disgust? Distancing?

Ha, nah.

Enthusiastic embrace is more like it.

Why, here’s Taylor Petrey discussing eagerly inviting Potter to contribute to the “Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender.”

What about “mainstream” media? Surely, they find this violence disturbing, right?

Well, not the Salt Lake Tribune.

They gave Potter editorial space.

And released an editorial complaining about #DezNat “rhetoric of violence” on the same day without a hint of irony.

So, it’s not really a professor doxing a student that “concerns” the ProgMos, ExMos, or the Trib.

Or support for violence.

Or arson.

Or prison camp fantasies.

Or being part of a group connected to violence and attempted murder.

It’s who vs. whom.

And it always has been.