On Tuesday (June 23), Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who teaches English at Churchill College, tweeted: “I’ll say it again. White lives don’t matter. As white lives.” She then added: “Abolish whiteness.”
Gopal explained the comments in more detail saying:
“When I talk about abolishing whiteness, I talk about political practices and ideologies. Systems of oppression, whether white or brown, should be abolished.
It’s about abolishing a race hierarchy where whites are at the top.
It’s not the first time,” she said. “I’m routinely targeted, but this is the biggest campaign, mainly coming from the USA.
It’s like watching a huge amount of sewerage flowing past you. You realise how much hate there is out there and how much work needs to be done.”
A petition to ‘Fire Cambridge Professor for Racism’ has gained more than 13,000 signatures over the last 24 hours.
The organiser of the petition, Renee Myers, who is from the US, said: “Allowing Ms Gopal to continue lecturing at Cambridge sets a precedent that this behavior [sic] is acceptable and welcome amongst teaching faculty. Racism cannot be tolerated.”
Cambridge University has already offered its support to Prof Gopal after she said that she had received numerous death threats as a result of her comments:
A statement from the University said:
“The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial and deplores in the strongest terms abuse and personal attacks.
These attacks are totally unacceptable and must cease.”
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