Marxist professor fired for ‘enraging’ woke mob warns ‘identity politics’ are a diversion

A Marxist professor who was not too long ago fired from her college in Canada immediately after “enraging the mob” stated to Fox Information Digital why she thinks id politics have destroyed remaining-wing political imagined by distracting from economic complications.

Frances Widdowson taught economics, justice and coverage research at Mount Royal College (MRU) in Calgary, Alberta, from 2008 until she was fired previous December soon after additional than 6,000 folks signed a petition contacting her a “racist professor” and demanding her termination.

Professor Frances Widdowson
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Widdowson, who mentioned MRU “began to take on an ideological character” in 2016 with the rise of “wokeism,” stoked outrage among learners and school in 2020 when she mentioned BLM activists had “destroyed MRU” to these kinds of an extent that she “does not figure out the establishment any longer.”

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Widdowson described herself to Fox Information as “a historical materialist, which comes out of the theoretical facet of what would be known as Marxism so, a remaining-wing human being.”

“I see several of the complications remaining faced by persons as thanks to economic situation, not all these identification politics statements that are at the moment becoming produced by trans activists, Black Life Issue activists, gender feminists and so on,” she defined, incorporating that BLM is an illustration of what Thomas Sowell known as “race hustlers.”

A protester waves a Black Life Issue (BLM) flag during the demonstration in Los Angeles, California.
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The professor reported she believes identification politics are “a diversion to distract persons from focusing on the class-based mother nature of inequality, which essentially is rooted in a good deal of the developments that are occurring in late capitalism.” She sees trans activism specifically as a symptom of late-phase capitalism meant to divert great sums to the pharmaceutical corporations.

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Describing trans activism as “the most severe totalitarian ingredient of wokeism,” Widdowson said the marketing campaign from her began to mobilize when she organized a debate in March 2019 involving trans activist Julie Rei Goldstein and Meghan Murphy, a particular person essential of trans activism, to explore no matter whether trans activism negatively impacts women’s rights.

Spectators exhibit their help towards transgender and non-binary men and women throughout a Trans March in Toronto, Ontario, on June 21, 2019.
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Following the debate, Widdowson said a whole lot of professors started to argue that trans men and women at MRU were stating their humanity was staying denied.

“And that truly set a target on me as someone who was a particular person who was engaged in hateful and discriminatory kind of speech,” she explained.

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“We are coming into into an progressively authoritarian period,” she stated, warning that extra and far more folks are conflating speech with violence. “Persons seriously want to take discover of what is happening. And I guess the universities had been the to start with sign that we were being in serious issues.”

When achieved for remark about Widdowson’s firing, a spokesperson for MRU told Fox News Electronic that “the university unequivocally supports educational discussion and will normally defend the rights of college associated to tutorial independence.”

“However, tutorial freedom does not justify harassment or discrimination,” the spokesperson added.