(THE COLLEGE FIX) – Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, has fired a tenured professor who had criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, Indigenous policies and other “woke” ideas.
“I was questioning wokeism, woke ideas at the university, so asking questions, and this could not be tolerated by woke activists, which is basically identity politics that has become totalitarian,” Frances Widdowson told CTV News, which notes the former professor had worked at the university since 2008.
Widdowson, who had worked in the economics, justice and policy studies department, claimed in 2020 the Black Lives Matter movement “destroyed” the university, CBC News reported.
