It is appalling that someone threatened this guy with physical harm, but he does have some truly wretched views.
(CNN)A Drexel University professor who received death threats after posting several controversial tweets said Thursday he is resigning because the year-long harassment has made his situation “unsustainable.”
George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of politics and global studies, had been teaching his class remotely via video conference after being put on administrative leave, a move that Drexel said was for his own safety.
Here is some of the stuff he said:
The professor said the threats began last December after he posted on Twitter: “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” He said the tweet was a joke, a “satirical jab at a certain paranoid racist fantasy and that white genocide does not exist.”
Ciccariello-Maher drew more outrage in March after tweeting that he was “trying not to vomit” watching someone give up their first-class seat for a uniformed soldier. He said he was upset about airstrikes in Iraq that killed civilians and that his post was misrepresented by “right-wing media.”In October, the professor tweeted that “Trumpism” and the “narrative of white victimization” were to blame for the mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and more than 500 wounded.
The travesty is all of this is that Drexel University paid this guy to teach people his hate.
Clearly he was a science denier, particularly with Newton’s Third Law.
Thought it was something like George Carlin’s Third Law. You shall not shove your head so far up your … don’t remember the rest of it but I remember it was something about filling ones ears with something effecting what comes out of one’s mouth. George Carlin, another great American philosopher.
bill:
We agree on something; Carlin was a great American philosopher. His take on religion is priceless…..
Hallelujah and Happy New Year. I’m writing this day down in my calendar. I guess ‘we’ can all enjoy a laugh.