Cambridge University backs academic who tweeted 'White Lives Don't Matter' - and promotes her to professor - after she received barrage of abuse and death threats

Daily Mail ^ | 06-25-2020 | Bhvishya Patel

[HogsBreath]

University of Cambridge has spoken out in support of one of its lecturers who was hit by a wave of abusive messages and death threats for tweeting 'White Lives Don't Matter'. Dr Priyamvada Gopal, 51, who teaches in the Faculty of English at Churchill College, took to the social media platform on Tuesday evening to write: 'I'll say it again. White Lives Don't Matter. As white lives.'

[HogsBreath]

At least she hasn't called for genocide...yet....

[rktman]

Well heck yeah. These days, proclamations like that are beneficial.

[lgjhn23]

“Professor”...”University”. Nough said. That’s all I needed to see.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

She's getting raided on 4chan. They also are photoshopping her as a Klingon. 😆

[KC_Lion]

Black Lives Matter.

White Lives Matter.

ALL. LIVES. MATTER.

[golux]

King's College is a rich and diverse community, and take the wellbeing of its students and staff extremely seriously. We remain committed to being an inclusive and welcoming environment in which to work and study.

King's College and Cambridge are lost.

Can you even imagine promoting an academic to FULL PROFESSOR just because she tweets "white lives don't matter?"

Is anyone sane anymore?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Professor gets it.

[golux]

Yeah, “all lives matter” until it’s a white kid up against a black kid with much lower test scores.

[Leaning Right]

> ‘I’ll say it again. White Lives Don’t Matter. As white lives.’ <

Okay. Someone tell me how this sort of vile thinking can be corrected (short of a civil war). Because, unfortunately, I see it as the new normal.

[Army Air Corps]

Man, that would be something to see!

[EEGator]

“Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor at the Faculty of English at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies.”

[dp0622]

That’s beautiful. How about the leader of China? How about Hitler did his life matter? How about Stalin? how about Pol pot? Did their lives matter? Do you cry at night knowing they died? Do you cry knowing Hitler killed himself?

Take off the ****** hippie hat and wake the **** up everybody. This is the real ******* world

[EEGator]

Have you seen her forehead?!? It’s like a drive in movie screen.(but brown)

[BradyLS]

The inmates are running the asylum and it’s not even a surprise.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Some are posted in replies on her Twitter feed.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

👍

[LeoWindhorse]

There should be a cost .
There wouldn’t have to be many. Others would get the message

[Robert DeLong]

[LeoWindhorse]

It always amazes me how those who are about to be oppressed , even when they see it coming , do nothing . Until it’s too late . They just sit there , passively, waiting. Hoping all the bad stuff will just go away. It almost never does. Are we on that path?

[Batman11]

Yikes! How about a warning next time? I’m trying to eat lunch!