Breitbart Media is leading a smear campaign against a radical scholar of international politics and decolonization for a satirical tweet he published on December 24 mocking white supremacists. Instead of coming to the aid of George Ciccariello-Maher, who has received death threats as a result of the campaign, Drexel University issued a statement on Christmas condemning…
“all I want for Christmas is white genocide.” So we lost the presidency because we failed to compete among what constituency?
“Steven Salaita, who was fired in August 2014 from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for social media posts criticizing Israel’s military assault on Gaza that year, told AlterNet he agrees with Ciccariello-Maher’s assessment.”
How does a public university get to fire a tenured faculty member for their opinion?
Good question. I don’t know.