All professor George Ciccariello-Maher wants for Christmas is white genocide

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🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher caused quite the controversy and white supremacist melt down when he tweeted on Christmas Eve, "all I want for Christmas is White Genocide," a satirical reference to a concept that Ciccariello-Maher describes as a "figment of the racist imagination." To clarify, to white supremacists, white genocide consists of things like interracial dating and biracial families. Ciccariello-Maher was responding to to the white supremacists backlash against an All State insurance add which deigned to feature a Black man proposing to a white woman. Ciccariello-Maher was immediately attacked by white supremacists and their publications like Breitbart, which knowingly distorted what he said into a literal call for the massacring of white people and the elimination of the (socially constructed)white race. Not only did Ciccariello-Maher get death threats but his employer, Drexel University threw him under the bus when it kinda sorta defended his right to free speech but condemned his comments, which they didn't bother to, like, google, as "utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing." We talk to Ciccariello-Maher about his tweet, the response it provoked, how Drexel has come around, the role of violence, why the "massacre" of "whites during the Haitian revolution... was a good thing indeed," and how to resist Trumpism. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hi guys welcome to the Katie Helper show we're very excited to bring you this
0:04.0	interview with George Schickerel-L-Marr who caused quite the controversy when he
0:08.8	tweeted all I want for Christmas is white genocide.
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