Tue Feb 8, 2022 – 4:45 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The president of George Washington University backtracked on an order to remove artwork critical of the Chinese government from campus.
In a statement released Monday, university president Mark Wrighton said, “Last week, the university learned of posters on campus depicting images that alarmed some members of our community, and we began to receive a number of concerns through official university channels reporting bias and racism against the Chinese community.”
The posters, designed by Chinese dissident artist Badiucao to bring attention to the Chinese government’s human rights violations, were accused of being racist by the university’s Chinese Student Scholars Association (CSSA), a Chinese student association known to have links with the Chinese government.
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the CSSA said the posters “insulted China” and constituted a “naked attack on the Chinese nation.” The group called for a public apology and that the people who set the posters up should face severe punishment.
Many American universities are enthusiastic agents for #China’s censorship efforts in America
For example GW University just ordered posters criticizing China’s human rights record removed &
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