This is what tenure is for. Via Inside Higher Ed News:
Drexel University issued a statement on Christmas Day to condemn a tweet by one of its professors on Christmas Eve that said that “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.”
The tweet went viral quickly Saturday, with conservative websites and many individuals condemning the tweet by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel.
But others on social media have said that Ciccariello-Maher — who offers radical critiques of American society and global politics — was making a political point and was not in fact calling for mass killings of anyone. Ciccariello-Maher has also written of white genocide as a fiction, as something that white nationalists imagine and promote as a real threat in the United States, when it is not in fact a threat.
Since the controversy broke Ciccariello-Maher has made his Twitter feed private, so the tweets are no longer visible, although screen captures are circulating widely.
Then he doubles down:
But don’t worry, Ciccariello isn’t some weird, evil alt-leftist… no, he says he’s just “a communist.”
That makes it all good.