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Students at George Washington University protested their Regulatory Center for being backed and sold out to the Kochs.

Here's how the GW President responded:

“What if the majority of the students agreed to shoot all the black people here? Do I say, Ah, well the majority voted?"
The GWU President was right to apologize for his remarks.

Now he should apologize for defending a Koch and Exxon-funded Center as a “legitimately founded academic organization.” It is not. #RegStudies10
washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
The Koch-funded Regulatory Center at GWU poses as an objective hub of scholarship.

In reality, its purpose is to generate faux scholarship in support of the anti-regulatory views of the Kochs, Exxon, and other right wing orgs that fund it. #RegStudies10
citizen.org/article/koch-c…
We're with @sunrisemvmtgwu.

Which side are you on, GW? #RegStudies10 #DivestGW

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