Posted on 12/28/2016 3:34:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Drexel University professor, whose tweet that he wanted "white genocide" for Christmas sparked a firestorm of criticism from the school and social media, said on Tuesday that administrators supported his right to take part in political debate.
George Ciccariello-Maher, a white associate professor of history and politics at the Philadelphia university, has said his Christmas Eve posting of "All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide" on Twitter was aimed at poking fun at white supremacists.
He is an expert on Latin American social movements with about 10,000 Twitter followers.
But his attempt at satire triggered a backlash from conservative websites, with some online comments calling for him to be fired or commit suicide. Drexel on Sunday called his tweet "utterly reprehensible" and said it would meet with him to discuss it....
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I didn’t mean the wish for white genocide.
I meant the tactics of turning the tables and making, or trying to make, those who call you on your bad behavior look like the bad guys by accusing them of having no sense of humor and that you were *just joking* and making yourself look like the poor, innocent, misunderstood *victim*.
“...A professor like him discredits the entire university...”
Well, realistically, he probably didn’t show that side of himself when they hired him. Probably kept it bottled up, so to speak, until he was comfortable enough.
He discredits himself, by his words. The university discredits themselves by not taking action against his call for violence.
So, we have his permission, nay, his request, to remove him and his cohorts at that university from the gene pool? Cool!
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