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Drexel condemns professor's tweet about white genocide

Inside Higher Ed: Drexel University issued a statement on Christmas Day to condemn a tweet by one of its professors on Christmas Eve that said that "all I want for Christmas is white genocide."

The tweet went viral quickly Saturday, with conservative websites and many individuals condemning the tweet by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel.

But others on social media have said that Ciccariello-Maher -- who offers radical critiques of American society and global politics -- was making a political point and was not in fact calling for mass killings of anyone. Ciccariello-Maher has also written of white genocide as a fiction, as something that white nationalists imagine and promote as a real threat in the United States, when it is not in fact a threat.

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