Teacher Accused of Espousing White Nationalist Views Says It Was 'Satire'

[DonViejo]

Suspended Florida middle school teacher Dayanna Volitich insists that the racially charged messages she posted under the pseudonym "Tiana Dalichov" were just a "hobby."

By David Emery 6 March 2018

A Florida teacher who was removed from her post pending an investigation into allegations that she espoused racist sentiments online has released a statement denying that she is a white nationalist and defending her controversial remarks as “political satire.”

Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in northern Florida hosted a podcast called “Unapologetic” and regularly tweeted under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov,” according to a 3 March 2018 Huffington Post report. In since-deleted tweets, “Tiana” expressed views such as that it will be necessary to “eradicate [Muslims] from the face of the earth” to end terrorism and “It isn’t supremacist or hateful to prefer your own people over others,” among other examples. She argued in a recent podcast that science has proven that some racial groups are less intelligent than others.

In response to the article, Citrus County School District released this statement from Superintendent of Schools Sandra Himmel:

We have not been able to reach Volitich for comment, but in a statement to NBC News, she denied being a white supremacist and characterized the activities of her alter ego as a “hobby”:

None of the statements released about my being a white nationalist or white supremacist have any truth to them, nor are my political beliefs injected into my teaching of social studies curriculum. While operating under the Russian pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov” on social media and the “Unapologetic Podcast,” I employed political satire and exaggeration, mainly to the end of attracting listeners and followers, and generating conversation about the content discussed between myself and my guests.

As an adult, my decisions are my own, and my family has nothing whatsoever to do with my social media accounts or my podcast. From them, I humbly ask for forgiveness, as it was never my intention to cause them grief while engaging in a hobby on my personal time.

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[underpants]

1. Come on! I was just joking!!!

Because playing Nazi is just sooooo funny

[Bleacher Creature]

2. She should be satirically fired. NT

[hatrack]

6. I believe "Parodically Terminated" is the generally accepted term . .

You know, "political correctness" and all that.

[Gothmog]

3. Conservatives are too stupid to understand satire

This idiot was not engaged in satire

[FM123]

4. Now it all makes sense!

Satire! That's what Trumpy's doing in the White House....

[neeksgeek]

5. Racism is not a hobby. NT

[poboy2]

7. Watch and decide. Her pants are ablaze, imo

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"Tiana Dalichov is the author of sci-fi thriller Agenda 46 (Rebellion Rising et al.) and several other novels and short stories. Dalichov is a self-described conservative, an avid reader, and a middle/high school teacher/tutor, specializing in History, Civics, English Language Arts, and Writing. She now writes for Halsey News as a political commentator."

Read Tiana's work:

https://www.halseynews.com/author/tiana/

[IluvPitties]

8. Interviewing and agreeing with white supremacists seems pretty serious shit to me!

[el_bryanto]

9. I did something similar back when I had a blog

i created a few alternative "Personas" one of which was a Conservative and one of which was a Liberal and responded to news of the day. I must admit I wasn't generally espousing racism views - in the naive days of 2005 I was trying to portray a principled but wrongheaded conservative - and I assumed that the sort of blatant race baiting we are seeing right now would be too much - it wouldn't be believable at that point.

We've all learned a fair amount since then.

Bryant

[poboy2]

10. .