he was a physicist from the University of Texas, Austin. Or, rather, at least he had been until he was fired when he stated during a class that science did not allow for the possibility that Newton’s Three Laws of Physics were “structurally racist and fail to reflect the experiences and vision of oppressed people.” Thirty of his students had staged a die-in during the next session – conveniently, when he was holding the midterm – because his “racist hate speech is literally murdering us.”
