You would think that a person in this position would know better. You’d be wrong.
The College Fix reports:
UCLA puts ‘race and equity’ director on leave following Charlie Kirk commentsThe University of California at Los Angeles has put its DEI office’s director of race and equity on leave following vulgar remarks about the death of Charlie Kirk.According to The Washington Free Beacon, the school noted Johnathan Perkins is on “immediate leave and [it] has launched an investigation” into the situation.UCLA added “While free expression is a core value of UCLA, violence of any kind—including the celebration of it—is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”Earlier, UCLA had taken down the “Who We Are” section of its Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion website following Perkins’ posts.Perkins had written on the social media platform BlueSky that “It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people’s death dies — even if they are murdered.”In reaction to the oft-missing-context Kirk quote about the Second Amendment, Perkins wrote “Dude made his bed; reaped what he sowed; chickens coming home to roost, etc. Smh.”Other remarks included “Fuck Around and Find Out is really doing its thing, lately,” “I’m always glad when bigots die, so,” and in response to someone saying Kirk “shouldn’t be dead” Perkins asked “Why shouldn’t he be dead?”Perkins eventually deactivated his BlueSky account, Corey DeAngelis reported on X.According to his Linkedin page, some of Perkins’ duties at the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion include “implement[ing] equitable and evidence-based best practices relating to improving learning and working environments” and “designing measures to prioritize long-term, antiracist improvement to institutional systems, climate, and environments.”Perkins has made questionable remarks in the past; in 2022 he wrote “No one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies,” and added the “whole rule we’re not to wish ill on people is silly.”In the same thread he said “Uncle Thomas is a sexist token who’s committed himself to making us all share in he and his treasonous wife’s misery.”
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