Petition calls for MRU professor be fired over controversial, ‘racist’ comments

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MRU associate professor Frances Widdowson calls the petition outrageous and said it's an attempt to make the university political.

calling on a Mount Royal University professor to be fired after controversial comments she made earlier this week.

Associate professor Frances Widdowson calls the petition outrageous and said it’s an attempt to make the university political. The ire stems from Widdowson comments, quoted in the Western Standard, saying the Black Lives Matter movement has “destroyed MRU” and she “doesn’t recognize the institution anymore.”Calgary University professor highlights danger of posting controversial comments online

On Friday, Widdowson told Global News that it should be her right to make that argument at a university and she will defend that right.

 

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