Atmosphere on @Rutgers_Newark campus is rapidly deteriorating. @audreytruschke posted a letter that literally accuses @YuvaNortheast @HinduStudentsC of being Nazis.
Students report an increasingly hostile environment.
Truschke's response? More hostility. @AnnaBranchPhD 1/
Students report an increasingly hostile environment.
Truschke's response? More hostility. @AnnaBranchPhD 1/
Students complain about Truschke depicting a Hindu God as a "misogynistic pig" & teaching that Hindu texts promote rape culture. Instead of apologizing, Truschke digs in & posts a letter signed by mostly non-Hindu groups & some extremist groups, like separatist Stand with Kashmir
Students are afraid.
Truschke dissembles with Kashmir? Dalit politics? A letter that erases their concerns and grievances & accuses them of championing Nazi ideology or Islamophobia?
This is dangerous. 3/
Truschke dissembles with Kashmir? Dalit politics? A letter that erases their concerns and grievances & accuses them of championing Nazi ideology or Islamophobia?
This is dangerous. 3/
Dear @Rutgers_Newark @AnnaBranchPhD:
Hindu students are following a process in seeking your intervention. We appreciate @Rutgers_Newark 's constructive engagement. But your faculty is ratcheting up tensions and politicizing legitimate student concerns. 4/
Hindu students are following a process in seeking your intervention. We appreciate @Rutgers_Newark 's constructive engagement. But your faculty is ratcheting up tensions and politicizing legitimate student concerns. 4/
Only way to keep these brave students safe, is to diffuse the situation immediately and stop it from escalating further.
Only you, @Rutgers_Newark can do this. 5/
Only you, @Rutgers_Newark can do this. 5/
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