Cambridge Uni backs academic who tweeted ‘white lives don’t matter’ and promotes her after she’s sent death threats
CAMBRIDGE University has backed and promoted an academic who posted “White Lives Don’t Matter” after she was sent death threats.
One person replied saying she was “disgusting inside and out”, and, “[i]f you don’t like white people, pack up your sh*t and go home. Problem solved.” A petition launched to sack Gopal’ said: “Her statements are racist and hateful and must not be tolerated by Cambridge University leadership. "When I talk about abolishing whiteness, I talk about political practices and ideologies. Systems of oppression, whether white or brown, should be abolished.After she was suspended from Twitter she wrote: “The great entities for free speech that are Twitter and Facebook have suspended me for making public the hate mail I have received.'Attacks are totally unacceptable'
On Wednesday night, journalist and activist Dr Gopal was even promoted by the university to a full Professorship in the English department. She said: “I was suspended from both platforms, in the case of Facebook because I posted some of the hate mail I had been receiving.
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