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Georgetown Professor’s Profane Tweet Elicits Tepid Response From University

A Georgetown University (DC)  faculty member who tweeted last week that "entitled white men" deserve "miserable deaths while feminists laugh" knew that her critique of the Brett M. Kavanaugh hearings would bring out the haters. And she wasn’t surprised when angry critics demanded that she be fired.  C. Christine Fair, an associate professor of security studies, said that her goal was to make people — white men, in particular — uncomfortable, and that the outrage she drew proved she had succeeded.
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