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All options are on the table in dealing with the Fresno State professor who called Barbara Bush "an amazing racist" shortly after the former first lady died, university president Joseph Castro said Wednesday. 
  
 "A professor with tenure does not have blanket protection to say and do what they wish," he said. "We are all held accountable for our actions." 
  
 Castro declined to comment specifically on how the university may handle Randa Jarrar's case, citing personnel matters. But he did say the next steps for the university include reviewing all the facts, as well as the faculty's collective bargaining agreement. 
  
 Within an hour of the official announcement that Bush, the wife of former president George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday at age 92., Jarrar took to social media to call the former first lady an “amazing racist” who raised a “war criminal.” Jarrar also expressed no concern that she could be fired or reprimanded for her outspokenness. 
  
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 “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal,” Jarrar wrote on Twitter. “F--- outta here with your nice words.” 
  
  
  
  
  
 Castro said he shares the shock and horror many people expressed after Jarrar, an associate professor in the English department, tweeted about Bush. 
  
 "This was beyond free speech. This was disrespectful," Castro said. 
  
 The backlash on Twitter was immense on Tuesday night, with thousands of comments pouring in to condemn Jarrar for what she had said. Jarrar eventually made her social media accounts private. 
  
 Castro said he is grateful Jarrar chose to change her settings, and that her tweets are ultimately a way to educate the campus on social media use. 
  
 "One set of tweets, as horrible as they were, do not define us," Castro said. 
  
 Jarrar did not returned requests for comment by phone and email. But she did return to Twitter Wednesday to thank her supporters. 
  
 "I'm still fabulous, thanks for checking in. Love to all of you who have sent support," she wrote. 
  
 A tweet from Jarrar on Wednesday indicates that she is out of the country. Twitter 
  
 In one of her tweets on Tuesday night, Jarrar said she is a tenured professor and makes $100,000 a year. 
  
 “I will never be fired,” Jarrar tweeted. 
  
  
  
  
  
 At a news conference Wednesday, Provost Lynnette Zelezny also disagreed with the professor's contention she can't be fired because of tenure. 
  
 Asked at the news conference about that tweet, Zelezny said: "Does tenure mean that you, technically, cannot be fired? The answer to that is no." 
  
 The university had not been in contact with Jarrar, who is on a leave of absence this semester. 
  
 Protected speech? 
  
 Ari Cohn of FIRE, an organization that advocates for free speech on university campuses, said Jarrar’s initial tweet was protected speech under the First Amendment. 
  
 Even subsequent tweets in which Jarrar tagged the official Fresno State account do not indicate that she was speaking on behalf of her employer instead of as a private citizen, he said. 
  
 Instead, he believes she was reacting to the mob that wanted to see her fired, a trend that he said is growing in the last year. 
  
 “The desire to see someone fired because they said something you disagree with or was offensive to you is childish and unproductive and it needs to stop,” Cohn said. “It can so easily be turned around on someone you agree with so it's ultimately self-defeating.” 
  
 Last year, Fresno State professor Lars Maischak came under fire for a tweet saying President Donald Trump “must hang." 
  
 Maischak was ultimately reassigned for the next school year. 
  
 Cohn said if a professor felt a reassignment was a demotion, it could be a violation of their First Amendment rights and grounds for a lawsuit. 
  
  
  
  
  
 Abre' Conner, staff attorney for ACLU of Northern California, said Jarrar's statements are part of her First Amendment rights to express a political opinion. 
  
 "It appears the professor was involved in protected speech on her own time," Conner said. "If Fresno State administrators are reviewing her based on this political speech, that is troubling." 
  
 Hotline number 
  
 Jarrar also tweeted a phone number Tuesday, claiming it was her own. But the number actually led to an Arizona State University's suicide hotline, a fact that drew additional vitriol online. 
  
 Lori Prentice, who runs an in-home homeless ministry in Madera County, said tweeting out the number was like a "kick in the teeth" for those who work with individuals in crisis. 
  
 "There is a strong probability that someone who finally found the courage to contact the suicide hotline couldn't get through due to Jarrar's caustic misdirection," Prentice said. 
  
 Prentice said her daughter had been considering attending Fresno State, but her decision will depend on how the university handles Jarrar's case. 
  
 An Arizona State University official who asked not to be identified said the tweet did lead to unusually high call volume. 
  
 However, the call center brought on more staff, and he does not think anyone with a legitimate call did not get through. 
  
 The staff realized what must have happened when people calling were all angry at the same person. 
  
 Mixed reactions 
  
 Fresno State alumna Jasmine Leiva, who tweeted in support of Jarrar, said she thinks it's awful that the professor is being harassed for her comments. 
  
 "People are attacking her for stating something valid," Leiva said. "It's the pure vitriol that is usually directed at women of color on public platforms like Twitter." 
  
 Leiva wasn't a student of Jarrar's during her time at the university, but met the professor through classmates and the community. She tweeted Tuesday night that Jarrar is "a gem," and that Fresno State is lucky to have her. 
  
 "Dr. Castro said her views and comments are contrary to the core values of the university which values respect and empathy," Leiva said. "I would like to see those values afforded Professor Jarrar because we value critical thinking as well." 
  
 Blake Zante, president of Fresno State Associated Students, said that said Jarrar's comments did not reflect Fresno State's values. 
  
 "As president of the student body, I will work with the university to ensure that the student voice is heard and that appropriate action is taken," Zante said. 
  
 Maria Angelini, Jarrar's former sister in law, said her comments were shocking to her former in-laws. 
  
 "She was not this way when we knew her," Angelini said. 
  
  
  
  
  
 Angelini learned of the comments when news started to break online. She has not spoken to Jarrar in years. 
  
 Jarrar was born in Chicago and grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. In addition to her teaching, she has been involved in the local literary scene. 
  
 She was scheduled to appear at this weekend's LitHop, but told the event's organizers and Fresno City College that she will not be a participant. 
  
 "Fresno City College and LitHop 2018 support her decision to withdraw," a statement from Fresno City College read. ||||| FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Fresno State lecturer who says he was demoted after posting a tweet that Donald Trump "must hang" says the university president is again failing to defend academic freedom, this time over a professor who called former First Lady Barbara Bush an "amazing racist." 
  
 In an opinion posted Thursday by The Fresno Bee, Lars Maischak says university President Joseph Castro is siding with attackers of English professor Randa Jarrar instead of standing up to the "fascist threat to academic freedom." 
  
 Writers and free speech advocates also called on California State University, Fresno on Thursday to end its investigation of Jarrar's tweets. Meanwhile, critics continued to slam Jarrar on social media for being insensitive so soon after Bush's death was announced Tuesday. 
  
 "Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal," Jarrar wrote on a Twitter account Tuesday that has since been made private. In response to critics, she said she was a tenured professor who could not be fired. 
  
 Jarrar is on leave this semester and scheduled to return in the fall. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt and moved to the United States after the Gulf War, according to her university faculty page. 
  
 She describes herself in her Twitter messages as an Arab-American and a Muslim-American woman. She did not respond to requests for comments from The Associated Press. 
  
 Jarrar further enraged people when she posted as her contact information a phone number that serves as a crisis hotline for Arizona State University. 
  
 Castro said Wednesday that the university would review the facts and look into the faculty's collective bargaining agreement. 
  
 "A professor with tenure does not have blanket protection to say and do what they wish," he said. "We are all held accountable for our actions." 
  
 In the case of Maischak, the history lecturer's classes were converted into online courses after the university discovered in April 2017 a tweet that said in part, "to save American democracy, Trump must hang." 
  
 University spokeswoman Patti Waid did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. 
  
 Fresno State is the university's popular name. ||||| Bestselling authors across the country are voicing support for Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar, and say the fallout of her tweet, which called Barbara Bush "an amazing racist," is an unfair overreaction. 
  
 "We stand with (Jarrar) and are excited to welcome her to the summer workshop this July, where she will be free to say anything she damn well pleases," the prominent literary magazine, Tin House, posted to Twitter on Thursday. 
  
 After the former first lady died on Tuesday, Jarrar, an award-winning author and professor at Fresno State's English department, said online that “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F--- outta here with your nice words.” 
  
 Jarrar, who is on leave and out of the country, was unapologetic about her remarks, arguing with those who said they were insensitive, even in the face of an investigation and news conference held by Fresno State officials, who condemned her words on Wednesday. 
  
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 But Jarrar has supporters — many who say her claims about Bush are not wrong. They point to controversial remarks made by Bush in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, about those who had been devastated by the storm and were seeking refuge in the Houston Astrodome. "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them," Bush said then. 
  
 SHARE COPY LINK Lynnette Zelezny, Fresno State provost, leads a news conference about English professor Randa Jarrar's controversial Twitter post on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. 
  
 Bush also received criticism for casting doubt on Anita Hill, a black attorney who became a national figure after calling out U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment in 1991. 
  
 The leaders of the Women's March were criticized for their tribute to Bush, who died at 92, with followers raising the same concerns about her past controversial comments. 
  
 "In calling Barbara Bush 'a racist,' (Jarrar) said bluntly what newspaper obituaries disguised when they wrote that Mrs. Bush was 'never shy about expressing her views,' or that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her 'candor got her into trouble," Laila Lalami, a novelist and Los Angeles Times book critic, posted to Twitter on Thursday. 
  
 Supporters of Jarrar are urging people to buy her books in a show of support and are criticizing Fresno State's reaction to her tweet, saying it is not a fireable offense. 
  
 "Death doesn't excuse racism. Calling out racism isn't an invitation for violence. The vitriol flung at her is the epitome of white fragility," Fresno writer Steven Sanchez said on Twitter. "The 'diplomacy' of Fresno State & others massages white fragility." 
  
 John Beynon, a fellow English professor at Fresno State, called Jarrar "a fierce, outspoken woman of color" who is unafraid to criticize what she perceives as America's injustices and its international relations — and often uses Twitter to do that. 
  
 "That commitment to justice is at the root of her thinking and her actions ..." Beynon said. "What you’re going to find is harsh criticism of parts of our society that Randa feels exasperated with." 
  
 Some supporters are pointing to the fact that Jarrar is an Arab-American and Muslim as reasons for the public's strong response to her words, saying a white man would be granted more freedom of speech. 
  
 "It just doesn't add up. We're in a very precarious moment," award-winning author Jericho Brown said. "And it's a moment when we really do have to protect voice like Jarrar's." 
  
 The ACLU of Northern California and the National Coalition Against Censorship have also called on Fresno State to end its investigation of Jarrar's conduct, calling it protected free speech. "We must all support (Jarrar) not because she’s such a talented writer (which she is) but because she has the right to have a political opinion and the right to express that opinion without being threatened with violence or loss of employment," Moustafa Bayoumi, award-winning author and columnist for The Guardian, said on Twitter. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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– Free speech activists are lending support to a Fresno State professor threatened with possible disciplinary measures after referring to Barbara Bush as an "amazing racist," who is "still fabulous, thanks for checking in." Randa Jarrar on Wednesday tweeted "love to all of you who have sent support," per the Fresno Bee. And there are apparently several. In an opinion piece at the Fresno Bee, a Fresno State lecturer who says he was last year demoted for claiming President Trump "must hang" argues university President Joseph Castro should be standing up to the "fascist threat to academic freedom" rather than investigating the tenured associate English professor currently on a leave of absence. Both the ACLU of Northern California and the National Coalition Against Censorship also say the investigation of the Arab-American should be closed. Jarrar, who is to return to the university in the fall, "said bluntly what newspaper obituaries disguised when they wrote that Mrs. Bush was 'never shy about expressing her views,' or that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her 'candor got her into trouble,'" says Los Angeles Times book critic Laila Lalami. Guardian columnist Moustafa Bayoumi says Jarrar has "the right to express that opinion without being threatened with violence or loss of employment." Fresno writer Steven Sanchez adds "the vitriol flung at her is the epitome of white fragility." The AP reports that critics have continued to bash Jarrar for being insensitive after Bush's death. Castro said her words went "beyond free speech," per the Bee. Jarrar—who grew up in Kuwait and Egypt—has also taken flak for implying the phone number of Arizona State University's crisis hotline was her own.
Sammanfatta denna artikel: Alla alternativ är på bordet i att hantera Fresno State professor som kallade Barbara Bush "en fantastisk rasist" strax efter den tidigare första damen dog, sade universitetspresident Joseph Castro onsdag. »En professor med upplåtelse har inte filtskydd att säga och göra vad de önska», sade han. "Vi hålls alla ansvariga för våra handlingar." Castro avböjde att kommentera specifikt hur universitetet kan hantera Randa Jarrars fall, med hänvisning till personalfrågor. Men han sa att nästa steg för universitetet är att granska alla fakta, liksom fakultetens kollektivavtal. Inom en timme efter det officiella meddelandet att Bush, hustru till den före detta presidenten George H.W. Bush, dog tisdagen vid 92 års ålder., Jarrar tog till sociala medier för att kalla den tidigare första damen en “fantastisk rasist” som tog upp en “krigsförbrytare”. Jarrar uttryckte också ingen oro över att hon kunde sparkas eller tillrättavisas för sin frispråklighet. SIGN UP Hjälp oss att leverera journalistik som gör skillnad i vårt samhälle. Vår journalistik tar mycket tid, ansträngning och hårt arbete att producera. Om du läser och njuter av vår journalistik, tänk på att prenumerera idag. SUBSCRIBE IDAG “Barbara Bush var en generös och smart och fantastisk rasist som tillsammans med sin man, uppfostrade en krigsförbrytare,” Jarrar skrev på Twitter. “F--- härifrån med dina fina ord.” Castro sade att han delar den chock och skräck många människor uttryckte efter Jarrar, en docent i engelska avdelningen, twittrade om Bush. "Detta var bortom yttrandefriheten. Detta var respektlöst", sade Castro. Backlashen på Twitter var enorm på tisdag kväll, med tusentals kommentarer strömma in för att fördöma Jarrar för vad hon hade sagt. Jarrar gjorde så småningom sina konton i sociala medier privata. Castro sa att han är tacksam att Jarrar valde att ändra hennes inställningar, och att hennes tweets i slutändan är ett sätt att utbilda campus om användning av sociala medier. "En uppsättning tweets, hur hemska de än var, definierar oss inte", sade Castro. Jarrar returnerade inte förfrågningar om kommentarer via telefon och e-post. Men hon återvände till Twitter onsdag för att tacka sina anhängare. "Jag är fortfarande fantastisk, tack för att du checkade in. Kärlek till er alla som har skickat stöd," skrev hon. En tweet från Jarrar på onsdag indikerar att hon är ut ur landet. Twitter I en av sina tweets på tisdag kväll, Jarrar sade att hon är en inhyrd professor och tjänar $ 100.000 per år. — Jag kommer aldrig att få sparken, twittrade Jarrar. På en nyhetskonferens onsdag höll inte heller Provost Lynnette Zelezny med professorns påstående att hon inte kan avskedas på grund av upplåtelse. På nyhetskonferensen frågade Zelezny: "Betyder anställningen att du inte kan avskedas? Svaret på det är nej." Universitetet hade inte varit i kontakt med Jarrar, som är tjänstledig denna termin. Skyddat tal? Ari Cohn från FIRE, en organisation som förespråkar yttrandefrihet på universitetens campus, sade Jarrars inledande tweet var skyddat tal under Första tillägget. Även efterföljande tweets där Jarrar taggade det officiella Fresno State-kontot tyder inte på att hon talade på uppdrag av sin arbetsgivare istället för som privat medborgare, sade han. Istället tror han att hon reagerade på mobben som ville se henne sparkad, en trend som han sade växer under det senaste året. — Önskan att få se någon sparkad därför att de sagt något man inte håller med om eller var stötande för en är barnslig och improduktiv och det måste upphöra, sade Cohn. “Det kan så lätt vändas på någon du håller med så det är i slutändan självförsvar.” Förra året, Fresno State professor Lars Maischak kom i brand för en tweet som säger president Donald Trump “måste hänga.” Maischak blev slutligen omplacerad till nästa läsår. Cohn sa att om en professor kände att en omplacering var en degradering, så kunde det vara ett brott mot deras rättigheter och skäl för en stämning. Abre' Conner, advokat för ACLU i norra Kalifornien, sa att Jarrars uttalanden är en del av hennes rätt att uttrycka en politisk åsikt. »Det synes som om professorn var inblandad i skyddat tal på sin egen tid», sade Conner. "Om Fresno State Administrators granskar henne utifrån detta politiska tal, så är det oroande." Hotline nummer Jarrar twittrade också ett telefonnummer tisdag, hävdar att det var hennes eget. Men numret ledde faktiskt till en Arizona State Universitys självmordsjour, ett faktum som drog ytterligare vitriol på nätet. Lori Prentice, som driver en hemlös departement i Madera County, sade twittra ut numret var som en "spark i tänderna" för dem som arbetar med individer i kris. "Det finns en stark sannolikhet för att någon som äntligen fann modet att kontakta självmordsjouren inte kunde ta sig igenom på grund av Jarrars kaustiska missledning", sade Prentice. Prentice sa att hennes dotter hade funderat på att gå på Fresno State, men hennes beslut beror på hur universitetet hanterar Jarrars fall. En Arizona State University tjänsteman som bad att inte identifieras sade att tweeten ledde till ovanligt hög samtalsvolym. Samtalscentralen drog dock in mer personal, och han tror inte att någon med ett legitimt samtal inte kom igenom. Personalen insåg vad som måste ha hänt när folk som ringde var alla arga på samma person. Blandade reaktioner Fresno State alumna Jasmine Leiva, som twittrade till stöd för Jarrar, sade att hon tycker det är hemskt att professorn blir trakasserad för sina kommentarer. "Folk attackerar henne för att ha sagt något giltigt", sa Leiva. "Det är den rena vitriolen som oftast riktar sig till färgkvinnor på offentliga plattformar som Twitter." Leiva var inte elev till Jarrar under sin tid på universitetet, utan träffade professorn genom klasskamrater och samhället. Hon tweetade på tisdag kväll att Jarrar är "en pärla" och att Fresno State har tur som har henne. "Dr Castro sade att hennes åsikter och kommentarer strider mot universitetets kärnvärden som värdesätter respekt och empati", sade Leiva. "Jag skulle vilja se de värderingar som ges professor Jarrar eftersom vi värdesätter kritiskt tänkande också." Blake Zante, ordförande för Fresno State Associated Students, sade att Jarrars kommentarer inte återspeglade Fresno States värderingar. "Som ordförande för studentorganet kommer jag att arbeta med universitetet för att se till att studentrösten hörs och att lämpliga åtgärder vidtas", sade Zante. Maria Angelini, Jarrars före detta svägerska, sade att hennes kommentarer var chockerande för hennes tidigare svärföräldrar. »Hon var inte sådan, när vi kände henne», sade Angelini. Angelini fick reda på kommentarerna när nyheterna började gå ut på nätet. Hon har inte pratat med Jarrar på flera år. Jarrar föddes i Chicago och växte upp i Kuwait och Egypten. Vid sidan av sin undervisning har hon varit engagerad i den lokala litterära scenen. Hon var planerad att framträda på denna helgs LitHop, men berättade för evenemangets arrangörer och Fresno City College att hon inte kommer att vara med. "Fresno City College och LitHop 2018 stödjer hennes beslut att dra sig ur", läste ett uttalande från Fresno City College. FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — En Fresno-statsföreläsare som säger att han blev degraderad efter att ha lagt upp en tweet som Donald Trump "måste hänga" säger att universitetspresidenten återigen misslyckas med att försvara akademisk frihet, denna gång över en professor som kallade den tidigare första damen Barbara Bush en "fantastisk rasist." I ett yttrande publicerat av The Fresno Bee säger Lars Maischak att universitetspresident Joseph Castro tar parti för angripare av den engelske professorn Randa Jarrar istället för att stå upp mot det "fascistiska hotet mot den akademiska friheten". Författare och yttrandefrihetsförespråkare uppmanade också California State University, Fresno på torsdagen att avsluta sin utredning av Jarrars tweets. Under tiden fortsatte kritikerna att slå Jarrar på sociala medier för att de var okänsliga så snart efter Bushs död tillkännagavs tisdagen. "Barbara Bush var en generös och smart och fantastisk rasist som tillsammans med sin man uppfostrade en krigsförbrytare", skrev Jarrar på ett Twitter-konto tisdag som sedan dess har gjorts privat. Som svar på kritiker sade hon att hon var en tenured professor som inte kunde avskedas. Jarrar är ledig i terminen och ska återvända i höst. Hon växte upp i Kuwait och Egypten och flyttade till USA efter Gulfkriget, enligt sin universitetsfakultetsida. Hon beskriver sig själv i sina Twittermeddelanden som en arab-amerikan och en muslim-amerikansk kvinna. Hon svarade inte på begäran om kommentarer från The Associated Press. Jarrar retade upp folk ytterligare när hon som sin kontaktinformation postade ett telefonnummer som fungerar som krisjour för Arizona State University. Castro sade onsdag att universitetet skulle granska fakta och undersöka fakultetens kollektivavtal. »En professor med upplåtelse har inte filtskydd att säga och göra vad de önska», sade han. "Vi hålls alla ansvariga för våra handlingar." När det gäller Maischak omvandlades historieföreläsarens klasser till onlinekurser efter att universitetet i april 2017 upptäckt en tweet som delvis sade, "för att rädda den amerikanska demokratin måste Trump hänga." Universitetstaleskvinnan Patti Waid svarade inte omedelbart på en begäran om kommentar torsdag. Fresno State är universitetets populära namn. Bästasäljande författare över hela landet uttrycker stöd för Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar, och säger att resultatet av hennes tweet, som kallade Barbara Bush "en fantastisk rasist", är en orättvis överreaktion. "Vi står med (Jarrar) och är glada över att välkomna henne till sommar workshopen i juli, där hon kommer att vara fri att säga vad som helst hon fan väl behagar," den framstående litterära tidskriften, Tin House, postade på Twitter på torsdag. Efter att den tidigare första damen dog på tisdagen sade Jarrar, en prisbelönt författare och professor vid Fresno States engelska avdelning, på nätet att “Barbara Bush var en generös och smart och fantastisk rasist som tillsammans med sin man uppfostrade en krigsförbrytare. F--- ut härifrån med dina fina ord. "Jarrar, som är på permission och ut ur landet, var oförsonlig om hennes kommentarer, gräla med dem som sade att de var okänsliga, även inför en undersökning och nyhetskonferens som hölls av Fresno statliga tjänstemän, som fördömde hennes ord på onsdag. SIGN UP Hjälp oss att leverera journalistik som gör skillnad i vårt samhälle. Vår journalistik tar mycket tid, ansträngning och hårt arbete att producera. Om du läser och njuter av vår journalistik, tänk på att prenumerera idag. SUBSKRIBE IDAG Men Jarrar har anhängare — många som säger att hennes påståenden om Bush inte har fel. De pekar på kontroversiella kommentarer från Bush 2005 efter orkanen Katrina, om dem som hade ödelagts av stormen och sökte skydd i Houston Astrodome. "Vad jag hör, vilket är lite skrämmande, är att de alla vill stanna i Texas. Alla är så överväldigade av gästfriheten. Och så många av folket på arenan här, du vet, var underprivilegierade ändå, så det här fungerar väldigt bra för dem," sade Bush då. DELA COPY LINK Lynnette Zelezny, Fresno State provost, leder en nyhetskonferens om engelska professor Randa Jarrars kontroversiella Twitter inlägg onsdagen den 18 april 2018. Bush fick också kritik för att ha kastat tvivel på Anita Hill, en svart advokat som blev en nationell figur efter att ha ropat ut USA:s högsta domstol nominerade Clarence Thomas för sexuella trakasserier 1991. Kvinnomarschens ledare kritiserades för sin hyllning till Bush, som dog vid 92 års ålder, med anhängare som tog upp samma oro över hennes tidigare kontroversiella kommentarer. "Genom att kalla Barbara Bush 'en rasist,' (Jarrar) sade rakt på sak vilka tidningsrunor förklädda när de skrev att fru Bush aldrig var 'någon skygg för att uttrycka sina åsikter,' eller att, i efterdyningarna av orkanen Katrina, hennes 'cancer fick henne i trubbel," Laila Lalami, en romanförfattare och Los Angeles Times bokkritiker, postade på Twitter på torsdag. Anhängare av Jarrar uppmanar folk att köpa hennes böcker i en uppvisning av stöd och kritiserar Fresno States reaktion på hennes tweet, och säger att det inte är ett eldfarligt brott. "Döden ursäktar inte rasism. Att ropa ut rasism är ingen inbjudan till våld. Vitriolen som flög på henne är sinnebilden av vit skörhet," Fresnoförfattaren Steven Sanchez sade på Twitter. "Fresno States och andras 'diplomacy' masserar vit skörhet." John Beynon, en engelsk professorskollega vid Fresno State, kallade Jarrar "en vildsint, frispråkig färgkvinna" som är orädd att kritisera vad hon uppfattar som USA:s orättvisor och dess internationella relationer — och använder ofta Twitter för att göra det. "Det engagemanget för rättvisa är roten till hennes tänkande och hennes handlingar" sa Beynon. "Vad du kommer att finna är hård kritik av delar av vårt samhälle som Randa känner sig retad av." Vissa anhängare pekar på att Jarrar är arabamerikansk och muslim som skäl till allmänhetens starka svar på hennes ord, och säger att en vit man skulle beviljas mer yttrandefrihet. "Det går inte ihop. Vi befinner oss i ett mycket prekärt ögonblick", sade den prisbelönte författaren Jericho Brown. "Och det är ett ögonblick när vi verkligen måste skydda rösten som Jarrars." ACLU i norra Kalifornien och National Coalition Against Censorship har också uppmanat Fresno State att avsluta sin utredning av Jarrars uppförande, och kallar det för skyddat yttrandefrihet. "Vi måste alla stödja (Jarrar) inte för att hon är en så begåvad författare (vilket hon är) utan för att hon har rätt att ha en politisk åsikt och rätt att uttrycka den åsikten utan att hotas av våld eller förlust av sysselsättning", sade Moustafa Bayoumi, prisbelönt författare och kolumnist för The Guardian, på Twitter. DELA KOPY LINK I en intervju med Collegian, Fresno States studenttidning i augusti 2017 berättar professor Lars Maischak om reaktionen på en tweet han lagt upp som delvis läste att "Trump måste hänga". Chueyee Yang The Collegian I en intervju i augusti 2017 med collegianen, Fresno States studenttidning, berättar professor Lars Maischak om reaktionen på en tweet han lagt upp som delvis löd att "Trump måste hänga." 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Summarize this article: All options are on the table in dealing with Fresno State professor who called Barbara Bush "an amazing racist" shortly after the former first lady died, University President Joseph Castro said Wednesday. "A professor with tenure doesn't have blanket protection to say and do what they want," he said. "We are all held accountable for our actions." Castro declined to comment specifically on how the university can deal with Randa Jarrar's case, citing staff issues. But he said that the next step for the university is to review all the facts, as well as the faculty collective agreement. Within an hour of the official announcement that Bush, wife of former President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday at the age of 92., Jarrar took to social media to call the former first lady a “fantastic racist” who brought up a “war criminal”. Jarrar also expressed no concern that she could be fired or reprimanded for her outspokenness. SIGN UP Help us deliver journalism that makes a difference in our society. Our journalism takes a lot of time, effort and hard work to produce. If you are reading and enjoying our journalism, consider subscribing today. SUBSCRIBE TODAY “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who along with her husband, raised a war criminal,” Jarrar wrote on Twitter. “F---- from here with your fine words.” Castro said that he shares the shock and horror many people expressed after Jarrar, an associate professor in the English Department, tweeted about Bush. "This was beyond freedom of expression. This was disrespectful," Castro said. The backlash on Twitter was huge on Tuesday night, with thousands of comments pouring in to condemn Jarrar for what she had said. Jarrar eventually made his social media accounts private. Castro said he is grateful that Jarrar chose to change her settings, and that her tweets are ultimately a way to educate campuses about the use of social media. "A set of tweets, no matter how terrible they were, do not define us," Castro said. Jarrar did not return requests for comments by phone and email. But she returned to Twitter Wednesday to thank her followers. "I'm still amazing, thanks for checking in. Love for all of you who have sent support," she wrote. A tweet from Jarrar on Wednesday indicates she's out of the country. Twitter In one of her tweets on Tuesday night, Jarrar said she is a hired professor and earns $100,000 a year. “I’ll never get fired, tweeted Jarrar. Also, at a news conference Wednesday, Provost Lynnette Zelezny did not hold with the professor's claim that she cannot be dismissed due to tenure. At the news conference, Zelezny asked, "Does employment mean you can't be fired? The answer to that is no." The university had not been in contact with Jarrar, who is on leave this semester. Protected speech? Ari Cohn of FIRE, an organization advocating freedom of speech on the campus of universities, said Jarrar's initial tweet was protected speech under the First Amendment. Even subsequent tweets in which Jarrar tagged the official Fresno State account do not indicate that she was speaking on behalf of her employer instead of as a private citizen, he said. Instead, he thinks she reacted to the mob who wanted to see her fired, a trend that he said grows over the past year. “The desire to see someone fired because they said something you don’t agree with or were offensive to you is childish and unproductive and it has to stop,” Cohn said. “It can be so easily reversed on someone you agree with so it’s ultimately self-defense.” Last year, Fresno State Professor Lars Maischak came on fire for a tweet that says President Donald Trump “must hang out.” Maischak was finally reassigned to the next academic year. Cohn said that if a professor felt a relocation was a degradation, it could be a violation of their rights and reason for a lawsuit. Abre' Conner, lawyer for the ACLU in northern California, said Jarrar's statements are part of her right to express a political opinion. "It seems that the professor was involved in protected speech in his own time," Conner said. "If Fresno State Administrators examine her on the basis of this political speech, it's worrying." Hotline number Jarrar also tweeted a phone number Tuesday, claiming it was her own. But the issue actually led to an Arizona State University suicide hotline, a fact that drew additional vitriol online. Lori Prentice, who runs a homeless department in Madera County, said tweeting the number was like a "kick in the teeth" for those working with individuals in crisis. "There is a strong likelihood that someone who finally found the courage to contact the suicide hotline could not get through due to Jarrar's caustic misdirection," Prentice said. Prentice said her daughter had considered attending Fresno State, but her decision depends on how the university handles Jarrar's case. An Arizona State University official who asked not to be identified said that the tweet led to unusually high volume of calls. However, the call center brought in more staff, and he does not think anyone with a legitimate call did not come through. The staff realized what must have happened when people who called were all angry with the same person. Mixed reactions Fresno State alumna Jasmine Leiva, who tweeted in support of Jarrar, said she thinks it is terrible that the professor is being harassed for his comments. "People attack her for saying something valid," Leiva said. "It's the pure vitriol that usually targets color women on public platforms such as Twitter." Leiva was not a student of Jarrar during his time at the university, but met the professor through classmates and the community. She tweeted on Tuesday night that Jarrar is "a gem" and that Fresno State is lucky to have her. "Dr. Castro said her views and comments conflict with the University's core values that value respect and empathy," Leiva said. "I would like to see the values given to Professor Jarrar because we value critical thinking as well." Blake Zante, president of Fresno State Associated Students, said Jarrar's comments did not reflect Fresno State's values. "As chairman of the student body, I will work with the university to ensure that the student voice is heard and that appropriate measures are taken," Zante said. Maria Angelini, Jarrar's former sister-in-law, said her comments were shocking to her former in-laws. "She wasn't like that, when we knew her," said Angelini. Angelini found out about the comments when the news began to go online. She hasn't spoken to Jarrar in years. Jarrar was born in Chicago and grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. In addition to her teaching, she has been involved in the local literary scene. She was scheduled to appear at this weekend's LitHop, but told the event's organizers and Fresno City College that she will not be there. "Fresno City College and LitHop 2018 support her decision to withdraw", read a statement from Fresno City College. FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Fresno state lecturer who says he was demoted after posting a tweet that Donald Trump "must hang" says that the university president again fails to defend academic freedom, this time over a professor who called the former first lady Barbara Bush a "fantastic racist." In an opinion published by The Fresno Bee, Lars Maischak says that university president Joseph Castro takes sides for attackers of English professor Randa Jarrar instead of standing up to the "fascist threat to academic freedom". Authors and freedom of expression advocates also urged California State University, Fresno on Thursday to end their investigation into Jarrar's tweets. Meanwhile, critics continued to beat Jarrar on social media because they were insensitive as soon after Bush's death, Tuesday was announced. "Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal," Jarrar signed a Twitter account Tuesday that has since been made private. In response to critics, she said she was a tenured professor who could not be dismissed. Jarrar is free in the semester and is due to return this fall. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt and moved to the United States after the Gulf War, according to her university faculty page. She describes herself in her Twitter messages as an Arab-American and a Muslim-American woman. She did not respond to the request for comments from The Associated Press. Jarrar further angered people when, as her contact information, she posted a telephone number that serves as emergency emergency emergency emergency support for Arizona State University. Castro said Wednesday that the university would review the facts and examine the faculty's collective agreements. "A professor with tenure doesn't have blanket protection to say and do what they want," he said. "We are all held accountable for our actions." As for Maischak, the history lecturer's classes were converted into online courses after the university discovered a tweet in April 2017 that said in part, "to save American democracy, Trump must hang." University spokeswoman Patti Waid did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Fresno State is the university's popular name. Best-selling writers across the country express support for Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar, saying that the result of her tweet, which called Barbara Bush "an amazing racist", is an unfair overreaction. "We stand with (Jarrar) and are happy to welcome her to the summer workshop in July, where she will be free to say anything she damn well pleases," the prominent literary magazine, Tin House, posted on Twitter on Thursday. After the former first lady died on Tuesday, Jarrar, an award-winning writer and professor at Fresno State's English department, said online that “Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who along with her husband raised a war criminal. F---- get out of here with your fine words. "Jarrar, who is on leave and out of the country, was irreconcilable about her comments, arguing with those who said they were insensitive, even before an inquiry and news conference held by Fresno state officials, who condemned her words on Wednesday. SIGN UP Help us deliver journalism that makes a difference in our society. Our journalism takes a lot of time, effort and hard work to produce. If you are reading and enjoying our journalism, consider subscribing today. SUBSCRIBE TODAY But Jarrar has followers — many who say her claims about Bush are not wrong. They point to controversial comments from Bush in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina, about those who had been devastated by the storm and sought refuge in the Houston Astrodome. "What I hear, which is a little scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this works very well for them," Bush said then. SHARE COPY LINK Lynnette Zelezny, Fresno State provost, leads a news conference on English Professor Randa Jarrar's controversial Twitter post on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Bush also received criticism for casting doubt on Anita Hill, a black lawyer who became a national figure after calling out the United States Supreme Court nominated Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment in 1991. The women's march leaders were criticized for their tribute to Bush, who died at the age of 92, with supporters addressing the same concerns over her earlier controversial comments. "By calling Barbara Bush 'a racist,' (Jarrars) said bluntly what newspaper runes disguised when they wrote that Mrs. Bush was never 'any shy of expressing his views,' or that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her 'cancer got her into trouble," Laila Lalami, a novelist and the Los Angeles Times book critic, posted on Twitter on Thursday. Supporters of Jarrar urge people to buy her books in a display of support and criticize Fresno State's reaction to her tweet, saying it is not a flammable crime. "Death does not excuse racism. Calling racism is not an invitation to violence. The Vitriol that flew at her is the epitome of white fragility," Fresno writer Steven Sanchez said on Twitter. "Fresno States and others' 'diplomacy' massage white fragility". John Beynon, an English fellow professor at Fresno State, called Jarrar "a ferocious, outspoken color woman" who is fearless to criticize what she perceives as U.S. injustices and its international relations — and often uses Twitter to do so. "That commitment to justice is the root of her thinking and her actions" Beynon said. "What you will find is harsh criticism of parts of our society that Randa feels teased by." Some supporters point to Jarrar being Arab American and Muslim as reasons for the public's strong response to her words, saying that a white man would be granted more freedom of expression. "It doesn't make sense. We are in a very precarious moment," said award-winning writer Jericho Brown. "And it's a moment when we really have to protect the voice of Jarrar." The ACLU in northern California and the National Coalition Against Censorship have also urged Fresno State to end its investigation into Jarrar's conduct, calling it protected freedom of expression. "We all have to support (Jarrar) not because she is such a talented writer (which she is) but because she has the right to have a political opinion and the right to express that opinion without being threatened by violence or loss of employment," said Moustafa Bayoumi, award-winning writer and columnist for The Guardian, on Twitter. SHARE KOPY LINK In an interview with Collegian, Fresno State's student newspaper in August 2017, Professor Lars Maischak tells of the reaction to a tweet he posted which read in part that "Trump must hang". Chueyee Yang The Collegian In an August 2017 interview with the collegian, Fresno State's student newspaper, Professor Lars Maischak recounts the reaction to a tweet he posted which read in part that "Trump must hang." Chueyee Yang The Collegian <unk> <unk> Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or exact location, from the web and via third-party software. 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– Frispråksaktivister ger stöd till en Fresno State professor som hotas av eventuella disciplinära åtgärder efter att ha kallat Barbara Bush för en "fantastisk rasist", som är "fortfarande fantastisk, tack för att du checkade in." Randa Jarrar i onsdags tweetade "kärlek till alla er som har skickat stöd," per Fresnobiet. Och det finns tydligen flera. I en opinionsartikel på Fresno Bee, en Fresno State föreläsare som säger att han var förra året degraderad för att hävda president Trump "måste hänga" argumenterar universitetets president Joseph Castro bör stå upp mot det "fascistiska hotet mot akademisk frihet" snarare än att undersöka den fängslade biträdande engelska professorn som för närvarande är på tjänstledig. Både ACLU i norra Kalifornien och National Coalition Against Censorship säger också att utredningen av arab-amerikanen bör läggas ner. Jarrar, som ska återvända till universitetet under hösten, "sade rakt på sak vilka tidningsrunor som förklädde sig när de skrev att fru Bush aldrig var "någon skygg för att uttrycka sina åsikter," eller att, i efterdyningarna av orkanen Katrina, hennes "godis fick henne i trubbel," säger Los Angeles Times bokkritiker Laila Lalami. Vaktkrönikören Moustafa Bayoumi säger att Jarrar har "rätt att uttrycka den åsikten utan att hotas av våld eller förlust av anställning". Fresnoförfattaren Steven Sanchez tillägger att "vitriolen flung på henne är sinnebilden av vit skörhet." AP rapporterar att kritiker har fortsatt att slå Jarrar för att ha varit okänslig efter Bushs död. Castro sa att hennes ord gick "bortom yttrandefriheten", per biet. Jarrar – som växte upp i Kuwait och Egypten – har också tagit skottet för att antyda telefonnumret till Arizona State Universitys krisjour var hennes egen.
– Free-language activists provide support to a Fresno State professor who is threatened by possible disciplinary action after calling Barbara Bush a "fantastic racist", who is "still fantastic, thanks for checking in." Randa Jarrar on Wednesday tweeted "love to all of you who have sent support," per Fresnobiet. And apparently, there are more. In an opinion article on Fresno Bee, a Fresno State lecturer who says he was demoted last year to claim President Trump "must hang," University President Joseph Castro argues should stand up to the "fascist threat to academic freedom" rather than investigating the jailed assistant English professor who is currently on leave of absence. Both the ACLU in northern California and the National Coalition Against Censorship also say the investigation of the Arab-American should be discontinued. Jarrar, who is to return to university in the fall, "said bluntly which newspaper runes disguised when they wrote that Mrs. Bush was never "any shy person to express his views," or that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her "candy got her into trouble," says Los Angeles Times book critic Laila Lalami. Guard columnist Moustafa Bayoumi says Jarrar has "the right to express that opinion without being threatened by violence or loss of employment". Fresno writer Steven Sanchez adds that "the vitriol fling on her is the epitome of white fragility." The AP reports that critics have continued to beat Jarrar for being insensitive after Bush's death. Castro said her words went "beyond the freedom of speech", per bee. Jarrar – who grew up in Kuwait and Egypt – has also taken the shot to suggest the telephone number of Arizona State University's emergency emergency shelter was her own.