{"id":986113,"date":"2021-11-08T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986113"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:43:59","slug":"rutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-are-villains-that-must-be-taken-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-are-villains-that-must-be-taken-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers U. Faculty Groups Support Prof Who Said White People Are &#039;Villains&#039; that Must Be &#039;Taken Out&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-are-villains-that-must-be-taken-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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people \u201cvillains,\u201d praised&nbsp;low white birth rates, and said, \u201cWe&nbsp;got to take these motherfuckers out\u201d during an online conference on Critical Race Theory in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past week our colleague Brittney Cooper has come under a renewed wave of racist attacks for her public scholarship,\u201d said Rutgers\u2019 branch of&nbsp;the&nbsp;American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgersaaup.org\/rutgers-aaup-aft-statement-in-solidarity-with-brittney-cooper\/\">statement<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_13282742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13282742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper.jpg\" alt=\"Rutgers prof Brittney Cooper\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rutgers prof Brittney Cooper (PublicTheaterNY\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to express our unequivocal solidarity with Dr. Cooper,\u201d continued the Rutgers faculty groups, which went on to claim that Cooper has faced \u201charassment and intimidation,\u201d such as \u201cthreats of physical violence fueled by a media smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5444927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rutgers-flowers-wikimedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5444927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rutgers-flowers-wikimedia.jpg\" alt=\"rutgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rutgers campus (Tom Sulcer\/Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The statement goes on to call Cooper \u201ca&nbsp;renowned and widely acclaimed scholar and public intellectual.\u201d In September, during the online conference, Cooper noted that&nbsp;\u201cwhite people\u2019s birth rates are going down,\u201d adding, \u201cthey kind of deserve it,\u201d with a smile on her face.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;AAUP-AFT goes on to&nbsp;characterize criticism against Cooper as \u201ca&nbsp;bad-faith media disinformation campaign\u201d that they say \u201chas grossly misrepresented\u201d the professor\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis smear campaign is not only an attack on her scholarly integrity but has incited threats to her physical safety,\u201d the faculty groups insist. \u201cWe condemn&nbsp;the use of death threats, racist and sexist hate mail, attempts to threaten job security, and attempted cyberattacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese forms of harassment are at once attacks directed at Professor Cooper\u2019s person as well as part of a broader pattern of trying to silence people of color, and particularly Black women, through tactics of intimidation and harassment,\u201d the&nbsp;AAUP-AFT adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Rutgers faculty groups concluded by stating that they stand \u201cin&nbsp;solidarity with Professor Cooper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rutgers University Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Faculty Caucus also issued a statement defending Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>The BIPOC Faculty Caucus claims criticism of the professor is \u201cpart of a larger campaign of disinformation aimed at destroying social justice activism and anti-racist education,\u201d and reflects \u201ca&nbsp;historic pattern that transmutes white anxieties about the loss of hegemony into anti-Black violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the Rutgers administration and community to reject the politics of white grievance and fear and to embrace the courageous vision of justice and commitment to institutional transformation that grounds the work of Professor Cooper and the other members of the BIPOC Faculty Caucus,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5263157894737\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The BIPOC Faculty Caucus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RutgersU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RutgersU<\/a> stands in strong solidarity with our friend and colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfessorCrunk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ProfessorCrunk<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JhY6j5xTSm\">pic.twitter.com\/JhY6j5xTSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sylvia Chan-Malik (@schanmalik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schanmalik\/status\/1455588387725905922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers University faculty groups are showing their support for one of the school\u2019s professors, Brittney Cooper, who called white people \u201cvillains,\u201d praised\u00a0low white birth rates, and said, \u201cWe\u00a0got to take 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