Students at Soas University of London have called for its director to resign after a meeting where he used the N-word in response to a question about lecturers using the term in class. They said: “It’s been used by lecturers and, historically, has been ignored when students have raised it, and now you have just used it in a public meeting with students. “Like many students have been saying, I find it unacceptable myself that you have used that word in a meeting. “He doesn’t actually grasp, and seems incapable of grasping the violence of the words, particularly for black students,” he said. “The whole thing was shocking from start to finish.”He added: “I know that many black students quit the call and didn’t wait for the end of it when he said that.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2021 13:10 UTC