.USC claims their decision to cave in to anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate by cancelling Asna Tabassum's valedictorian speech is not about free speech but about safety. Here's why that claim is disingenuous at best, or a flimsy lie. #LetAsnaSpeak #AsnaTabassum |🧵A Thread
The USC Community Demands: Let Valedictorian Asna Tabassum Speak at Commencement - Sign the Petition! chng.it/gJTdNRPQSx via Change.org
My remarks for Al Jazeera PR on @usc’s shameful crackdown on its own students efforts to exercise their free speech rights. First they ban our Muslim valedictorian, #AsnaTabassum , from giving her commencement speech, now this? Deeply tarnishing the USC brand!?
University of Southern California'dan, en yüksek notla mezun oldu.
Lisansı biyoloji, yan anadalı soykırım çalışmaları idi.
Asna Tabassum'a okul yönetimi mezuniyet konuşması hakkı vermedi.
Söylemeyi düşündüklerini, CNN'den Abby D. Phillip'e anlattı.
Principled & powerful statement from #VietThanhNguyen - Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Genius, and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC about the silencing of USC valedictorian & South Asian American senior, Asna Tabassum