{"id":385866,"date":"2018-11-20T21:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-rutgers-university-withdraws-punishment-for-professor-who-said-he-hates-white-people\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T21:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:37:19","slug":"prison-planet-com-rutgers-university-withdraws-punishment-for-professor-who-said-he-hates-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-rutgers-university-withdraws-punishment-for-professor-who-said-he-hates-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Rutgers University Withdraws Punishment For Professor Who Said He \u201cHates White People\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>History prof who went on \u201clittle Caucasian assholes\u201d rant absolved of blame<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>November 20, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/201118prof1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rutgers University has withdrawn its punishment for a history professor who said he \u201cofficially hates white people,\u201d absolving him of blame for violating the institution\u2019s discrimination and harassment policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in May, James Livingston posted on Facebook and Twitter that he \u201cofficially hates white people\u201d following a visit to a caf\u00e9 where he encountered \u201clittle Caucasian assholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Livingston subsequently asserted that he would \u201cresign from\u201d his race, writing, \u201cDo what you want, nobody here is gonna restrict your right to be white. I hereby resign from my race. Fuck these people. Yeah, I know it\u2019s about access to my dinner. Fuck you, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the university was alerted to \u201cnumerous complaints about the purported racist content of the posts,\u201d its investigation concluded that Livingston had damaged the institution\u2019s reputation, releasing a statement which said, \u201cGiven Professor Livingston\u2019s insistence on making disparaging racial comments, a reasonable student may have concerns that he or she would be stigmatized in his classes because of his or her race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, following an appeal by Livingston, who was represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a civil liberties advocacy group, Rutgers reversed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIRE is pleased that Rutgers did the right thing and reversed the charge of racial discrimination against Professor Livingston,\u201d said FIRE\u2019s Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon. \u201cAny other result would have undermined the free speech and academic freedom rights of all Rutgers faculty members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One wonders whether the outcome would have been the same if a professor had said he \u201chates black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would Rutgers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/rutgers-university-withdraws-punishment-for-professor-who-said-he-hates-white-people.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History prof who went on \u201clittle Caucasian assholes\u201d rant absolved of blame Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comNovember 20, 2018 Rutgers University has withdrawn its punishment for a history professor who said he \u201cofficially hates white people,\u201d absolving him of blame for violating the institution\u2019s discrimination and harassment policy. Back in May, James Livingston posted on Facebook and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}