A professor at a Massachusetts college and former Harvard fellow is calling for white males to consider committing suicide because it’s “the right thing to do.”
Noel Ignatiev, a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, took things to the extreme during his final lecture before retirement. The academic, who has previously called for the elimination of Caucasians, told students that white males should kill themselves because of the atrocities they have committed.
“If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live,” Ignatiev said. “You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world. They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites.”
Ignatiev, a former fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute, went on to say that atrocities from salary to the Holocaust were all caused by white males and should be to blame.
The transcript from the professor’s final class was published on a website called Diversity Chronicle, which promoted Ignatiev’s teachings and lesson.
“The good Professor’s sound and reasonable words resonate with every enlightened and progressive mind. They are indisputable and no one can debate them,” the site states. “They should not be controversial in the slightest, yet remarkably a few far-right extremists object to the Prof. Ignatiev’s advice. The Professor however, reported receiving “a standing ovation” from his “largely white and middle class students.”
Ignatiev, who is both white and a male, later spoke with Diversity Chronicle and reiterated his beliefs.
“Obviously, all whites need to be destroyed, but why not start with white males? They are behind most of history’s greatest atrocities,” the professor told Diversity Chronicle. “Besides, some of the brothers like to bang white women. Eventually white women can breed out, but my feeling is that if you are a white male, you should kill yourself now. If you are a thoughtful person, with a social consciousness who considers himself white, you will consider suicide. It’s the right thing to do.”
According to his memoir posted on marxists.org, Ignatiev associates with the Communist Party and received his master’s from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He then joined the Ivy League school’s faculty as a lecturer.
h/t Newsbusters
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(ED: Update — Although Noel Ignatiev is a described “controversial” professor and historian who has given such talks on racial privilege as “The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It,” it would appear that the source material in this particular instance is satire. Per a disclaimer link tucked away on the top-right of Diversity Chronicle’s homepage, “The content on this blog is largely satirical.” The joke may literally on us this time around, and we regret the error of reprinting the statements attributed to him.)
