Kansas professor advocates doxxing ICE agents on social media
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FIRST ON FOX: A Kansas community college professor has made the case for doxxing ICE agents as well as community interference in their operations, an audit of a social media account belonging to him shows.
Steve Werkmeister is a professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. His name is Steve W and he uses the handle swerkmeister.bsky.social on Bluesky, a largely left-wing spin-off of X, where he describes himself as a “slacker” and “left of the dial.”
On Monday, Werkmeister republished a flyer distributed by a left-wing advocacy group teaching anti-ICE supporters to use whistles to disrupt ICE operations. The flyer explains that blowing whistles when ICE agents are in the area allows people to “follow ICE caravans,” “alert neighbors to join us,” and “catch up with the crowd.”
Professor Steve Werkmeister teaches at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. (Johnson County Community College)
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He also shared a message from John Pavlovitz, a known far-left internet activist, encouraging family members to “get rid of” relatives who work for ICE.
“Good people need to start reporting their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members,” the post said. “We must make them pariahs in places where honest Americans gather.”
Repeatedly, Werkmeister refers to federal immigration enforcement as “kidnapping” and appears paranoid that he and his family are being “kidnapped” by ICE because of their “brown” skin. He said he told Johnson County Community College staff about his desire to teach online from abroad.
“I have spoken to our president and the president of the university to see if I could just move online and teach from a safe location overseas (my family and I could be kidnapped by the government at any time since our skin is brown), and so far they are being compassionately evasive (lots of empty words),” he said in an October 10 article.
A Rutgers University professor, Mark Bray, nicknamed “Dr. Antifa,” fled to Spain last week after President Donald Trump called Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
After an apparent trip abroad, Werkmeister explained his protocol for returning to the United States.
A photo of the Johnson County Community College campus taken on an unknown date. (Johnson County Community College)
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“Even though our citizenship is indisputable in the legal sense, we are brown, so I texted my family as soon as we arrived and told them I would text again once we cleared customs. If they hadn’t received the second text, they would know we were detained and needed lawyers immediately,” he posted in March.
“Then, once we were safely at the gate, I realized that my anxiety about the culture of violence and predatory aggression in this country had returned,” he said in a follow-up message. “I have never felt threatened abroad. It is a national shame that the most dangerous part of our journey was returning to our own country.”
Some of Werkmeister’s anger specifically targets white people.
“It’s hard to live knowing that every time I go to the store, or to my office, or for a walk, or anywhere, gangs of white ‘Americans’ are hunting and kidnapping people who look like me,” he said in a June 26 article. “It’s psychological terrorism for the crime of being born brown in America.”
In an earlier article, he claimed that whites wanted “the colored people to go back to the fields.”
Supporters of then-Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Republican of Texas) line up outside Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College before a campaign rally before the caucuses on March 2, 2016, in Overland Park, Kansas. (Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)
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“Mediocre white men have realized they can’t compete on a level playing field, so they must force women back into the kitchen and black and brown people back into the fields. They have been carried by others for 500 years, and they can’t ‘win’ without white privilege.”
“JCCC is an institution of open dialogue, and Johnson County Community College’s values are something we hold dear,” a school spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a brief statement.
Werkmeister did not respond to a request for comment.
