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Teh One Who Knocks
10-04-2017, 10:35 AM
By Caleb Parke, Fox News


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Extreme "Trumpism" and "white victimization" motivated the Las Vegas shooter who killed 59 and injured at least 515 others, according to a Drexel University professor.

Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted just hours after the massacre “white people and men” will go on shooting sprees “when they don’t get what they want.”

Stephen Paddock used a perch inside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino to rain down fire on a crowd at a country music concert Sunday night.

Drexel University told Fox News the professor’s tweets don’t represent the university’s views.

“The recent social media comments by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, are his own opinion and do not represent the University’s views,” the university said in a statement. “Drexel is deeply saddened by the tragic shooting in Las Vegas. The thoughts and prayers of the Drexel community are with the families of those affected by this senseless act of violence.”

This professor has a history of controversial tweets. In 2016, he tweeted “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.”

Cicariello-Maher began a Twitter thread Monday morning with a three word message: “A White Man.”

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“It’s the white supremacist patriarchy, stupid,” he tweeted.

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Cicariello-Maher continued:

"But liberals will drown out all discourse with a deafening chorus screeching 'gun control.' To believe that someone who would shoot down 50 people wouldn't circumvent any gun law you pass is the height of delusion. But liberal escapism means talking about easy questions and proposing easy non-solutions rather than talking about who kills and why.

"White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything. This is what happens when they don't get what they want. The narrative of white victimization has been gradually built over the past 40 years. It is the spinal column of Trumpism, and most extreme form is the white genocide myth. Yesterday was a morbid symptom of what happens when those who believe they deserve to own the world also think it is being stolen from them."

He ended with this tweet several hours later:

“Here's a wild idea: white supremacy in the U.S. is a bipartisan project, & *both* the gun lobby *and* the anti-gun lobby are racist as f---.”

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Goofy
10-04-2017, 12:30 PM
:nuts:

DemonGeminiX
10-04-2017, 12:33 PM
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Muddy
10-04-2017, 12:59 PM
These guys are so smart.. /s

deebakes
10-05-2017, 02:27 AM
:ffs:

PorkChopSandwiches
10-05-2017, 04:06 PM
:lolwut:

Teh One Who Knocks
10-11-2017, 11:32 AM
By Caleb Parke, Fox News


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A Drexel professor is threatening to take “all necessary legal action” after a tweetstorm against “white supremacist patriarchy” following the Las Vegas shooting got him kicked out of the classroom.

Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher said in an op-ed for the Washington Post that he is on “administrative leave” following a “smear campaign by conservatives aimed at academics.”

The tenured professor blames his suspension – not on the tweets – but rather on “illegal threats of violence” after Fox News and other outlets wrote stories on his tweets, in which he blamed the Las Vegas massacre on “Trumpism” and a “narrative of white victimization.”
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“The safety of Drexel’s students, faculty, professional staff and police officers are of paramount concern to Drexel,” university spokesperson Niki Gianakaris said in a statement. “Due to a growing number of threats directed at Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, and increased concerns about both his safety and the safety of Drexel’s community, after careful consideration the University has decided to place Professor Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave. We believe this is a necessary step to ensure the safety of our campus.”

Previously, the university said the tweets written by Ciccariello-Maher “do not represent the university’s views.”

The tenured professor railed against the “cowardice” of Drexel, saying they send the wrong message by “bowing to pressure from racist internet trolls.”

"As a researcher and professor of politics, these tweets were neither provocative in tone nor controversial in content,” he wrote, adding they were “more pressing now that President Trump has brought this aggrieved whiteness into daily headlines.”

Ciccariello-Maher wrote professors, such as himself, were being targeted by a “coordinated right-wing campaign to undermine our academic freedom – one that relies on misrepresentation and sometimes outright lying, and often puts us and our students in danger.”

“I am by no means the first, and will not be the last target of this kind of smear campaign by conservatives aimed at academics,” he wrote. “In every case, it is the same right-wing media outlets leading the charge, and campuses are increasingly the target.”

DemonGeminiX
10-11-2017, 12:38 PM
:haha: :fu:

RBP
10-11-2017, 12:48 PM
good riddance, you self-loathing prick.

lost in melb.
10-11-2017, 01:16 PM
What a moron