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Ivy League prof floats idea of racial justice strike, hundreds of academics fall in line
Campus Reform ^ | August 31, 2020 | Jezzamine Wolk

Posted on 09/02/2020 7:06:56 AM PDT by C19fan

More than 600 scholars have committed to halting their teaching duties for two days to participate in a teach-in on racism and police violence.

It started when University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler tweeted last week, “I would be down as a professor to follow the NBA and Strike for a few days to protest police violence in America.”

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: antheabutler; bigotry; blm; college; pennsylvania; racists; uofpennsylvania; woke
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Go ahead make my day.
1 posted on 09/02/2020 7:06:56 AM PDT by C19fan
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And we’re supposed to care? What if elitist liberals hold a demonstration and no one notices?


2 posted on 09/02/2020 7:08:56 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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Please do so at once.


3 posted on 09/02/2020 7:10:14 AM PDT by databoss
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better yet, they should all resign and go home.


4 posted on 09/02/2020 7:10:54 AM PDT by euram
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I say go big or go home.

Make it a few YEARS.


5 posted on 09/02/2020 7:11:44 AM PDT by rockvillem
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Those academic elites really DO live in a cultural bubble. 🙄
6 posted on 09/02/2020 7:12:25 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Better yet, why don’t you resign in protest? That’ll show ‘em!


7 posted on 09/02/2020 7:13:04 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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Well do it without pay oh brave one.


8 posted on 09/02/2020 7:13:27 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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The radical left has been pushing for a “general strike” for weeks/months.


9 posted on 09/02/2020 7:14:05 AM PDT by lodi90
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They treat this like we see it as some kind of “bad” news. They’re not particularly well connected with reality.


10 posted on 09/02/2020 7:15:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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11 posted on 09/02/2020 7:16:35 AM PDT by nwrep
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Only two days?
Here, let them go on strike for the next 10 years and put themselves out of business permanently.
To paraphrase Oliver Cromwell when he dismissed the British Parliament in April 1663:

“You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!.”


12 posted on 09/02/2020 7:17:41 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Let them go first. Then all us white people can go on strike.

L


13 posted on 09/02/2020 7:17:48 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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They won’t be missed


14 posted on 09/02/2020 7:18:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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Why just two days? Show us how committed you elitist academics really are and make it a full year.


15 posted on 09/02/2020 7:18:11 AM PDT by Starboard
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16 posted on 09/02/2020 7:18:34 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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I don't know if even a visit to a closed Beauty Salon would help here;

From the U of Penn site: Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and history, race, politics, Evangelicalism, gender and sexuality, media, and popular culture. You can find more of her writing and public engagement at Antheabutler.com.

She has this comment on the Ferguson Missouri riots of 2014; “America’s racist god required black people’s blood to atone for the sins committed by its followers,” and that such “blood [is] shed in sacrifice to this god of white supremacy.”

Obviously she has a beautiful soul at work here!

17 posted on 09/02/2020 7:18:38 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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Shut down all the indoctrination centers they call colleges.


18 posted on 09/02/2020 7:18:53 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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They won’t be missed

************

The academics and athletes revel in their own imagined self importance. Nobody misses any of them.


19 posted on 09/02/2020 7:19:20 AM PDT by Starboard
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What a colossal waste of $$$ so many of these colleges are.
20 posted on 09/02/2020 7:19:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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