The University of California Berkeley said it will take no action against a music instructor over a decade-old Facebook post. A graduate started a petition calling on the university to take action against the professor over the post.
In 2012, violinist and music instructor Dan Flanagan wrote on Facebook: “I performed the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Lara St John 3 times over the weekend. I haven’t been this disgusted with art since I watched Mel Gibson’s The Passion. She’s a beast…and she ought to be euthanized. And contrary to popular assumption, she’s not pregnant”.
Over a decade later, UC Berkeley alumnus Pranav Sivakumar started a Change.org petition asking the university to remove Flanagan from his position, “not only because of how it can affect the young people he tea...
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