Posted on 09/17/2025 10:50:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
PICS OF TWEETS AT LINK...............
Johnathan Perkins, formerly of Harvard, has also asserted Jews 'enjoy the benefits of whiteness'
Johnathan Perkins (equity.ucla.edu) Collin Anderson September 15, 2025 The University of California, Los Angeles has placed its controversial race and equity director, Johnathan Perkins, on leave after he celebrated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's assassination in a series of social media posts.
Perkins, a veteran diversity consultant who worked in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University before joining UCLA in 2019, took to left-wing X copycat Bluesky on Friday to disparage Kirk. In one post, he responded to a user who called Kirk the right's "Rush Limbaugh replacement" with the message, "Yup. Good riddance, both." In another, he wrote, "It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people's death dies—even if they are murdered."
When the Washington Free Beacon contacted UCLA about the posts on Friday, the school first provided a statement that condemned "any statement in the strongest possible terms that celebrates or condones violence" but did not reveal whether Perkins would face discipline. UCLA sent a follow-up statement Sunday evening revealing Perkins is on leave.
"UCLA has placed a campus employee on immediate leave and has launched an investigation following reports of social media posts regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk," the statement reads. "While free expression is a core value of UCLA, violence of any kind—including the celebration of it—is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
Around the same time, UCLA took down its Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion's "Who We Are" page, which featured Perkins's bio. Perkins also deactivated his Bluesky account.
Perkins has a history of making inflammatory statements against white people and Jews. In May 2020, he said Jewish people "enjoy the benefits of whiteness," benefits he said include "the assurance that your race will never be the root cause of any such pain." Perkins reiterated that position following Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre.
"Jews are latterly white yes," he wrote months after the attack in January 2024. "Does any of this happen if the Jewish people persecuted in the Holocaust are not also considered 'white?'" he wrote in another post that questioned the support Israel received in the attack's immediate aftermath.
All of those posts—as well as others that called Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom" and declared white people should be forced to work on Juneteenth—are no longer publicly available, as Perkins deleted his X account after the Free Beacon reported on the posts last year.
UCLA has come under intense scrutiny from the Trump administration for both its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and its lax response to campus anti-Semitism.
The administration launched a civil rights investigation into UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine in March, a probe that was a direct result of a May 2024 Free Beacon report that provided evidence suggesting the school holds black and Hispanic applicants to a lower academic standard than their white and Asian counterparts. California law has banned racial preferences in university admissions for nearly three decades, well before the Supreme Court followed suit in 2023.
The administration has also accused the school of discriminating against its Jewish students. Last year, UCLA students behind an illegal anti-Israel encampment prevented Jewish students from accessing portions of campus in what became known as a "Jew Exclusion Zone." Three Jewish students sued the school in response, alleging UCLA officials "routinely turned their backs on Jewish students" and allowed activists to enforce the "Exclusion Zone."
U.S. district judge Mark Scarsi admonished UCLA in an August 2024 preliminary injunction against the school, writing, "Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating."
UCLA Places Race and Equity Director Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Assassination on Leave
AKA paid vacation
PAID leave, no doubt. He’ll be back after his little vacation.
“On leave”.
Translation: “Take a nice long, PAID. vacation until this is blows over and we will have a party for you upon return”
He looks like he/she poofts.
What's everybody having for lunch today?
Universities/colleges are jammed with these types of white hating racist. And the administrators running these institutions who hire these people and create these bull shit positions are nothing more than American hating Communist.
They hate white folk and they hate America. It’s as simple as that!
Watching the YouTube and other social media videos that juxtapose liberals celebrating Kirks’ death and then having a complete meltdown over getting fired for it has been so much fun over the past week - a silver lining to the dark cloud of Kirk’s murder. Its almost as fun as watching the meltdowns when Trump won.
Maybe. What if someone higher on the “diversity” scale wants that job? Those people have no problem eating their own if it serves their selfish purposes.
If this is all that it takes to be placed on leave, don’t be surprised if Nico Iamaleava starts celebrating the Charlie Kirk assassination.
If this is all that it takes to be placed on leave, don’t be surprised if Nico Iamaleava starts celebrating the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Hahahaha.
A little off topic but CA has one candidate running as Republican for Governor. Che Ahn- religious man- very interesting. Has a chance? We will see.
https://youtu.be/SRfdXbbpVjI?si=QxBjGFEIKaqlgJc4
If this is all that it takes to be placed on leave, don’t be surprised if Nico Iamaleava starts celebrating the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Wish Billy Napier would.
Where is the Erik Estrada meme...?
For those who want “equity”...assassination is clearly one of the tools in the toolkit.
There is no way we can ever be “equal” if the most intelligent and talented of us remain alive.
The leftist murderous agenda has been exposed.
UCLA just stuck it to the CA taxpayers...again. While the appropriate response from any sane person would be to fire his sorry a$$, in CA he gets a paid vacation at taxpayer expense. They didn’t even have the stones to withhold paying him. How sad...
He will be back when the heat dies down. They are all vile scum
Why do the even have that position? Special treatment is NOT equal treatment.
Ugly is as ugly does;-)
On Leave = Moving to a new higher paying and more influential position out of the public eye.
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