UCLA ‘Race and Equity’ Director Placed on Leave Over Charlie Kirk Comments
“Dude made his bed; reaped what he sowed; chickens coming home to roost, etc. Smh.”
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 comments
The 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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DEI is toxic. Shut it down.
CA taxpayers should not be paying for this.
If you can’t put a divisive bigot in charge of Inclusion, who CAN you put?
Gee then I guess it’s ok for me to wish that he gets smacked by a car crossing the street today isn’t it? His rules after all.
This Mr. Perkins clearly has a wide mean streak and he should not be in that position.
But I was astonished to read what his that 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.””
Now I understood every one of those fine sounding words but I still have no idea what all that meant. I suspect that no does but were afraid to ask especially at evaluation time.
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The make work DEI offices forced on everyone after St Floyd attract the unemployable not the best and brightest. This hateful racist should be fired immediately