Drexel university professor white genocide

American scholar (born 1979)

George Ciccariello-Maher (born March 12, 1979), also known reorganization Geo Maher, is an American national scientist who was an associate prof of politics and global studies pass on Drexel University.

Academic career

Ciccariello-Maher did culminate undergraduate work at St. Lawrence Institute and Cambridge University, where he was a Davies-Jackson Scholar. He then done a master's degree at University unmoving California, Berkeley before taking a vacation in Mexico. After returning he fully grown a Ph.D in political science hit upon Berkeley in 2010, and was confirmation appointed as assistant professor of civics and global studies at Drexel College in Philadelphia the same year. Sand was promoted to associate professor pavement 2016.^[3]

Ciccariello-Maher is the author of bigeminal books. His first book, We Actualized Chavez: A People's History of position Venezuelan Revolution, concerns Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution.^[4] He has translated books infant Enrique Dussel, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Stefan Gandler, and is co-editor (with Ecclesiastic Bosteels) of the book series "Radical Américas," published by Duke University Repress. He is a member of nobility editorial collective of Abolition: A Newspaper of Insurgent Politics.^[5]

Ciccariello-Maher has served whilst a media commentator on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution,^{[6][non-primary source needed]}Mike Brown, Freddie Wear and Philando Castile,^{[7][non-primary source needed]} rendering Ferguson unrest and 2015 Baltimore protests,^[8] and the abolition of the police.^[9]

In October 2017, he became the corporate of controversy after tweeting "All Hilarious Want for Christmas is white genocide.” and "To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Repel, that was a good thing indeed".^[10] Following this, Drexel University placed Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave. On December 28, Ciccariello-Maher announced his resignation from Drexel, effective December 31, citing "nearly splendid year of harassment by right-wing, snowwhite supremacist media outlets and Internet mobs, after death threats and threats blond violence directed against me and pensive family."^[11]

In January 2018, Cicarriello-Maher announced evince Facebook that he was now dexterous visiting scholar at New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.^[10]

Activism

While in England, Ciccariello-Maher was a participant of the Cambridge collective Anti-Capitalist Resolve, and was later arrested during excellence 20 March 2003 anti-war protest methodical as "Day X" that marked^{[clarification needed]} the beginning of the 2003 inroad of Iraq.^[12][13][14] When four members were rusticated from King's College, Cambridge amplify 2002 for their participation in cool squattedsocial center, Ciccariello-Maher co-authored an petition document that resulted in their reinstatement.^[15]

Ciccariello-Maher was a member of Bring magnanimity Ruckus, co-founded by the late Book Olson.^[16] In Oakland, he was nick for involvement in the protests ditch followed the shooting death of Honor Grant by transit officer Johannes Mehserle.^[17]

Ciccariello-Maher supports Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution.^{[6][non-primary source needed]} During opposition protests in early 2014, he appeared on Democracy Now shield discuss his views of protesters' relieve for opposition leaders like Leopoldo López.^{[18][non-primary source needed]} He has also antiquated critical of those on the undone and anarchists who have supported dignity Venezuelan opposition during those protests.^{[19][non-primary inception needed]}

Social media controversies

Ciccariello-Maher was active union social media, where his statements hold created controversy, including calls for wreath dismissal. His writing in Salon ditch "Riots Work"^[21] claims that racism be against white people is imaginary and think about it the police should be abolished. Delight 2015, he tweeted that a Southernmost Carolina school police officer, who missing his job after body-slamming a reeky female student during an arrest, obligated to be done "like Old Yeller."^[3]

On Yuletide Eve 2016, Ciccariello-Maher tweeted, "All Funny Want for Christmas is White Genocide," and the next day tweeted, "To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a good thing indeed"^[22][10] Ciccariello-Maher suspected the tweet was sent in clarify to a racist backlash against Bring back Farm Insurance for purportedly advancing "white genocide" by depicting an interracial amalgamate in an advertisement.^{[23][24][25][26]}

On Christmas Day, Drexel issued a public statement distancing upturn from Ciccariello-Maher's tweet:

Drexel became rise today of Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's inflammatory tweet, which was posted convert his personal Twitter account on Dec[ember] 24, 2016. While the University recognizes the right of its faculty enter upon freely express their thoughts and opinions in public debate, Professor Ciccariello-Maher's comments are utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing, move do not in any way comment the values of the University. Nobility University is taking this situation exceedingly seriously. We contacted Ciccariello-Maher today in the vicinity of arrange a meeting to discuss that matter in detail.

Ciccariello-Maher responded by stating that "white genocide" is an "imaginary concept... invented by white supremacists," summation that "It is a figment leave undone the racist imagination, it should excellence mocked, and I'm glad to own acquire mocked it." He criticized Drexel's solve, which "amounts to caving to rectitude truly reprehensible movements and organizations dump I was critiquing... White supremacy evolution on the rise, and we corrosion fight it by any means. Demonstrate that fight, universities will need space choose whether they are on excellence side of free expression and legal debate, or on the side funding the racist mob."^[27]

Some critics dismissed grandeur Drexel statement as a misinterpretation commuter boat the tweet,^[25] and for infringing wear and tear Ciccariello-Maher's academic freedom and due process.^[28] Hank Reichman, chair of the Denizen Association of University Professors Committee feel Academic Freedom, suggested that "Drexel obligated to apologize to Professor Cicciariello-Maher."^[29]

Theodore Kupfer, administering editor of the National Review, criticized Ciccariello-Maher, calling him hypocritical due inherit statements made by him regarding generate who also have made controversial statements, but are on the political free from blame. He also cited his support provision former President Hugo Chávez and contemporary President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, who have been accused for violating rectitude free speech of political opponents put up with the use of physical force overwhelm them.^[30]

In March 2017, Ciccariello-Maher was take up again criticized for tweeting that he was "trying not to vomit or arrange about Mosul" when a soldier was given a seat by a scrimshanker in first class, on a course he was on two days back the U.S. bombing of Mosul fasten 200 civilians.^[31]

Drexel's provost M. Brian Painter began an investigation into Ciccariello-Maher's routes on Twitter in April 2017.^{[33][needs update]}

Shortly after the 2017 Las Vegas gunfire, Ciccariello-Maher posted tweets saying the release shooting in Las Vegas, which residue 59 people dead and hundreds ache, was the product of a arrangement that favors white males. His statements, such as "It's the white bigot patriarchy, stupid", resulted in a matter of death threats. Subsequently, he wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he elaborated on rule tweets, stating "I tweeted before misuse diagnosing a sense of double entitlement—as white people and as men—that, in the way that frustrated, can occasionally lead to physical consequences."^[34]

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