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Professor Sues After Being Canceled for Tweets About Reparations, Racial Bias Training

Professor Sues After Being Canceled for Tweets About Reparations, Racial Bias Training
A statue of the goddess of justice balancing the scales, at a courthouse in Rennes, France, on May 19, 2015. DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A mathematics professor at St. Joseph’s University is suing the school after it canceled him for an anonymous tweet mocking a controversial policy proposal that would have the government pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves.

Professor Gregory V. Manco, who was subsequently demoted, claims that he was accosted by an online mob for engaging in legally protected speech that expressed his personal opinions, and that the school made things worse.