Category: Priyamvada Gopal
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Twitter deletes Dr. Gopal’s tweet “white lives don’t matter”, academics defend her
Cambridge University has supported an academic who wrote on Twitter that “White Lives Don’t Matter” following a public backlash. The university said it “defends the right of its academics” to express themselves after calls for it to cut ties with Dr Priyamvada Gopal, an expert in postcolonial literature. On June 23, Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who…