A UC Davis professor urged a woman to put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger during a protest.
English professor Seeta Chaganti told a woman named Beth Bourne to “put a gun in your mouth, you piece of shit” while protesting transgender ideology.
NEW: Pro-Palestinian protesters told @bourne_beth2345 “Put the gun in your mouth, you bastard” was deemed @ucdavis Professor Sita Chaganti.
I would like to know @ucdavis Thinking of their professors telling people to commit suicide and act like this. pic.twitter.com/HdEzkC67a0
— Libs by TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
Chaganty, a staunch anti-Israel activist, had previously canceled all classes for a week to attend pro-Palestinian protests and urged her students to join her.
.@ucdavis Professor Seeta Chaganti also canceled all classes for a week in support of the pro-Palestinian protests and encouraged students to take part in the protests. https://t.co/K84LnIVP9B
— Libs by TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
According to her college profile, Chaganti is an expert in Old English poetry and is currently working on a project about white evil.
Seeta Chaganti joined the faculty of the UC Davis English Department in 2001. Her first book was The Poetics of the Medieval Reliquary. Her second book argues that for medieval audiences, the poetic form was a multimedia experience formed through an encounter with dance. In this work, she proposes a new approach to reenacting medieval dances using the experience of watching contemporary dance.
Her current project, tentatively titled “Jail Angels: The Sheriff’s Abolitionist History,” traces the long history of the Sheriff’s Office from pre-Conquest England to modern America. It argues that the early years of English law created a triangle of violence, whiteness, and property that hindered the emancipation of English modernity.
Chaganty served as a trustee of the New Chaucerian Society and as a commissioner of the Medieval Academy of America. She is currently an executive committee member of Race before Race and a member of Medievalists of Color.
With lunatics like this educating America’s best and brightest, it’s no wonder this country is in such bad shape.
